French President Emmanuel Macron told Donald Trump that he is seriously worried about stability on the Middle East in a phone call on Saturday, following the US leader’s decision to renounce the multilateral deal on Iran’s nuclear programme.

Tehran traffic is gridlocked half the time, and the city spends most of the year engulfed in smog, so it’s not surprising that locals travel underground when they can – on a metro system that sometimes carries two million people a day.

Israel’s defence minister has called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to “get rid” of Iranian forces in Syria, warning their continued presence would only cause problems.

If a week is a long time in politics, then it is doubly so in a world where the president of the United States is Donald Trump.

France’s Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire has called on European nations to unite in the face of the US’s decision to reimpose sanctions on companies trading with Iran. But can Europe escape the consequences of US President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal.

Campaigners hope the move will unlock funds for medical tools, interventions on the ground.

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A former member of Norwegian intelligence has been arrested in France as part of the inquiry into cement-maker Lafarge’s alleged dealings with the Islamic State (IS) armed group and other jihadists in Syria. Jacob Waerness has previously said that company bosses, seven of who have been charged in the investigation, knew of negotiations with the Islamist militias fighting Bashar al-Assad’s …

Almost 100 Irish peacekeeping troops had to take cover in heavily reinforced bunkers for five hours during a series of missile attacks across the Golan Heights early yesterday morning.

Israel and Iran lurched closer to all-out war yesterday after the Israeli military claimed it struck “almost all” of Iran’s bases in Syria in response to what it said was an Iranian rocket barrage fired at the Golan Heights.