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Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah held a telephone call on Saturday with Pakistani Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar to discuss current developments in the region and ongoing efforts to address them.During the call, the Pakistani Foreign Minister emphasized Pakistan’s continuous efforts to promote constructive dialogue and diplomacy in support of peace and stability both within the region and beyond. Source link
Hezbollah has brought reinforcements and weapons to the south of the country since the start of the war with Israel on March 2, the organisation’s director of media relations said yesterday.The Lebanese army said in January that it had finished disarming the group near the Israeli border in southern Lebanon, the scene of multiple wars between Israel and Hezbollah, the most recent of which was brought to a halt on April 17 by a ceasefire.The army had been enacting a plan that it drew up after a 2024 ceasefire agreement that ended the last war between the two.Speaking during an interview with a group of journalists including from AFP, Youssef al-Zein said the group had been able to “introduce forces and arms in the course of the battle” with Israel.He said the reinforcements did not use roads controlled by the Lebanese army.”We are convinced that the army is a national army” that “will not enter into a confrontation with Hezbollah”, al-Zein said.He said that if Israel had been able to penetrate deeper into Lebanese territory it was because Hezbollah had been disarmed south of the Litani river, which runs around 30km (20 miles) from the border, and its infrastructure there, including tunnels, destroyed.Nevertheless, he insisted that Hezbollah was able to “reconstitute its forces” after the last war with Israel, and that it was “prepared for a long battle”.Israel announced on April 7 that it had completed the deployment of its ground forces in southern Lebanon and would maintain a 10km-deep “security zone”.Asked about Hezbollah’s recent use of cheap one-way attack drones controlled via fibre-optic cable against Israeli forces, Zein said it was one of the group’s tactics.”We are aware of the enemy’s superiority, but at the same time we are exploiting its weak points,” he said.The use of such drones which, unlike radio-controlled UAVs, cannot be electronically jammed and are hard to track, was popularised by the Ukraine conflict.Al-Zein, whose predecessor Mohammed Afif was killed in Israeli strikes on Beirut during the 2024 war, said the drones were “manufactured in Lebanon”.Attacks using such drones have killed two Israeli soldiers and a civilian contractor in under a week, according to the Israeli military. Related Story Source link
US President Donald Trump said yesterday that he was ‘not satisfied’ with a new Iranian negotiating proposal, with peace talks between the two sides frozen despite a weeks-long ceasefire. Iran delivered the text of the proposal to mediator Pakistan on Thursday evening, the IRNA news agency reported, without offering details as to its contents.’At this moment I'm not satisfied with what they're offering,’ Trump told reporters, laying blame for the stalled talks with Iran due to ‘tremendous discord’ within its leadership. ‘Do we want to go and just blast the hell out of them and finish them forever — or do we want to try and make a deal? I mean, those are the options,’ he said when asked about next steps, adding he would ‘prefer not’ to take the first option ‘on a human basis’.The war, launched by the United States and Israel with a wave of surprise strikes on February 28, has been on hold since April 8, but only one failed round of direct talks has taken place between Iranian and US representatives. In the meantime, Iran has maintained its stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz, cutting off vast amounts of oil, gas and fertiliser from the world economy, while the US has imposed a counterblockade on Iranian ports. Despite the failure to negotiate an end to the war, the ceasefire has held. On Friday, Iranian judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said ‘the Islamic Republic has never shied away from negotiations’.But he added in a video shared by the judiciary's Mizan Online website, ‘we certainly do not accept imposition’ — though Tehran did not want a return to war.The White House has declined to comment on the details of the new Iranian proposal. But the news site Axios reported that US envoy Steve Witkoff earlier this week had submitted amendments to a previous proposal seeking to reinject the issue of Tehran's nuclear programme into the negotiations. Citing a source familiar with the matter, Axios said they included a demand that Iran not try to move enriched uranium out of sites bombed during a brief war last year, or resume any activity there while talks continue.Optimism after news of the Iranian proposal sent oil prices falling by nearly five percent for US benchmark West Texas Intermediate. However, prices are still roughly 50% above their prewar levels as traders confront the prolonged closure of Hormuz. Source link
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