Emergency workers search for victims of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut
Emergency workers searched through rubble in Beirut after Israeli airstrikes hit the Jnah neighbourhood.

Emergency workers searched through rubble in Beirut after Israeli airstrikes hit the Jnah neighbourhood.






![UN aid chief Tom Fletcher has warned of a potential new Israeli occupation in southern Lebanon, urging the Security Council to act as violence escalates. [UNTV]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/image-1774991720.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)


The US president is threatening to take over Iran’s oil export hub or destroy it.
Lebanon’s expulsion of Iranian ambassador tests limits of state power as Hezbollah fights push for disarmament.
Iran’s top diplomat Araghchi has told Al Jazeera that, despite contacts, Iran is not in negotiations with the US.
Bunker-buster bombs trigger massive secondary explosions at a mountainous area near Isfahan overnight.

Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari says Qatar is “ready to help” with US-Iran negotiations.

Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher explains what Trump’s latest criticism of US allies means.
Iranian attacks on Qatar are having a ‘catastrophic effect on the relationship between the two countries’, Doha says.
The chief of global football’s governing body says US-Israeli war on Iran will not affect scheduling of 2026 World Cup.
Iran’s parliamentary speaker is using X to shape market sentiment, blending war messaging with financial signalling.
White House says Trump could ask Arab nations to bear the cost of the Iran war.