US war on Iran: Reactions in Israel as Trump’s address 'barely' mention ally

02/04/2026 12:04 France 24

Iran responded to US President Donald Trump’s address to Americans on the war with new missile attacks targeting Israel and the Gulf Arab states Thursday, underlining Tehran’s insistence that it rejected Washington’s outreach for a ceasefire while maintaining its grip on the Strait of Hormuz. FRANCE 24's Noga Tarnopolsky reports from Jerusalem.

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Middle East war creates multi-faceted challenge for airlines

Global air travel remains ⁠severely disrupted, with many people still unable to fly as planned to destinations after the Iran war forced the closure of major Middle Eastern hubs, including Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi....

02/04/2026 14:12 France 24

'People are exhausted': No end in sight as Lebanon enters second month of war

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said on Thursday there was no end in sight to a war that had already displaced a million people over the last month, as families fleeing Israeli strikes said they were exhausted by repeated rounds of conflict. Lebanon is entering the second month of conflict b...

02/04/2026 14:11 France 24

'The scale of sexual violence is horrific': MSF head of mission Amande Bazerolle

Sexual violence has become a hallmark of conflict in Sudan, according to a new report from MSF, as the country approaches the fourth anniversary of its civil war. The report highlights the scale of devastation inflicted on civilians in Darfur, set against an even longer history of repeated cycles o...

02/04/2026 13:39 France 24

Hani’s race against time: Cancer in a time of war in Lebanon

In Lebanon, the reach of the war is stretching far beyond the front lines. For those with chronic illnesses, the conflict has created a silent, secondary crisis - cutting off access to the life-saving medicine they need to survive. In Beirut’s oncology wards, the cost of treatment is too much for...

02/04/2026 12:10 France 24

Macron says 'unrealistic' to open Hormuz Strait by force, urges Trump to 'be serious'

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said it would be unrealistic to launch a military operation to force open the Strait of Hormuz after US President Donald Trump challenged allies to work towards reopening it. In unusually strong criticism, Macron accused Trump of constantly contradicti...

02/04/2026 12:07 France 24

‘Back to the Stone Ages’: #Trump says #Iran war nearly over in national #address

US President Donald Trump delivered his first nationwide address since the start of the war in the Middle East on Wednesday. Trump claimed the US was “very close” to achieving its objectives in Iran and vowed to hit the country “extremely hard” in the coming days....

02/04/2026 10:44 France 24

Takeaways from Trump's address: No end date for Iran war and few details on strategy ahead

President Donald Trump sought Wednesday to explain his rationale for the war against Iran at a pivotal moment at home and abroad, but he offered few new details. Notably missing from Trump’s primetime address was his oft-repeated assertion that negotiations with Iran were underway. He did not ind...

02/04/2026 09:49 France 24

Critical aid supplies to Sudan disrupted by 'ripple effect' from Middle East war

Critical aid supplies to Sudan are being disrupted by the 'ripple effect' of the Iran war, the World Food Program (WFP) warned on Wednesday. While gas, oil and fertilisers are stuck in the Persian Gulf due to the war, urgent food aid destined to Sudan and other countries are facing severe delays, a...

02/04/2026 09:46 France 24

Iran vows 'more destructive' attacks after Trump threats

Iran on Thursday threatened "crushing" attacks on the US and Israel, firing missiles at Tel Aviv after US President Donald Trump vowed to bomb the Islamic republic "back to the Stone Ages". The war, which erupted more than a month ago with US-Israeli strikes on Iran, has spread throughout the Middl...

02/04/2026 09:43 France 24

Iran sets up 'tollbooth' in Strait of Hormuz for ships seeking safe passage

Oil prices rose and stocks fell on Wednesday following US President Donald Trump’s speech in which he warned he would hit Iran “extremely hard” over the next two to three weeks. Meanwhile, Iran has reportedly begun collecting tolls from ships seeking safe passage through the Hormuz Strait. We...

02/04/2026 09:26 France 24

‘Dumbest alliance break-up in history’: Trump threatens to leave NATO

PRESS REVIEW – Thursday, April 2: Donald Trump hails what he calls the successes of the war in Iran in a televised address. Earlier, he once again threatened to pull the United States out of NATO – a move the Wall Street Journal has described as the “dumbest” in history. Also, Gizmodo cel...

02/04/2026 09:11 France 24

Burkina Faso army, jihadists have killed more than 1,800 civilians since 2023, HRW says

More than 1,800 civilians have been killed in violence-wracked Burkina Faso since 2023, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Thursday that accuses the army and civilian militias of killing more civilians than jihadists do. The NGO called on prosecutors at the International Criminal Court...

02/04/2026 08:22 France 24

Middle East live: Iran vows 'crushing' attacks after Trump dims hopes of swift end to war

Iran's military on Thursday threatened "more destructive" attacks on the US and Israel, firing missiles at Tel Aviv after US President Donald Trump vowed to bomb the Islamic republic "back to the Stone Ages". Trump's remarks in a televised address Wednesday dimmed hopes of a swift end to the war in...

02/04/2026 02:32 France 24

Trump pledges to 'finish the job' in Iran in national address but offers no exit plan

President Donald Trump said US forces would keep hitting Iran "very hard" in the next two or three weeks and bring the country "back to the Stone Ages" in a televised address on Wednesday night, even as he argued that Washington had accomplished its goals but offered no clear timeline for ending th...

02/04/2026 00:52 France 24

Trump to deliver 'important update' on Iran war in televised speech

Donald Trump will give an “important update” on the Iran war in a prime-time televised address to the American nation on Wednesday evening, which is expected to reiterate the president's timeline for rolling back US military operations in the region....

01/04/2026 22:05 France 24

Artemis II mission: The ‘romanticism’ of sending humans into space

Speaking to FRANCE 24’s Sharon Gaffney, Dr David Brown, Senior Research Fellow in the Astronomy and Astrophysics Group at Warwick University, said he hopes the Artemis II mission marks “the start of a new era of human spaceflight”, adding that “it is incredibly exciting and inspiring to see...

01/04/2026 21:12 France 24

'It's a nightmare for Keir Starmer' as UK PM sees 'special relationship' with US unravel

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Wednesday that the global instability caused by the Iran war means Britain should pivot to focusing on closer economic and defence ties with Europe, following repeated criticism ‌from Trump. Quentin Peel, Associate Fellow on the Europe Programme at Chatha...

01/04/2026 19:37 France 24

NATO 'doesn't really exist anymore other than on paper', experts say

US president Donald Trump has once again branded the NATO alliance a 'paper tiger' in an interview with Britain's Daily Telegraph, saying he had moved "beyond reconsideration" of U.S. membership. FRANCE 24's Brussels correspondent Dave Keating explains that "Donald Trump has no intention of defendi...

01/04/2026 19:11 France 24

When the oil runs dry: What next for globalisation as Asia bears the brunt of the Iran war?

Are we witnessing globalisation’s biggest turning point since the end of the Cold War? With Asia feeling the impact of US President Donald Trump’s war against Iran, and steadfast American allies such as the Philippines forced to declare an energy emergency, the immediate consequences are rippli...

01/04/2026 18:30 France 24

Transatlantic rift widens as Trump lashes out at NATO

President Donald Trump has said he is strongly considering pulling the US out of NATO, ratcheting up his criticism of European allies and exposing a wider rift in the transatlantic alliance — this time over America's war alongside Israel against Iran....

01/04/2026 15:22 France 24

French truck drivers protest over rising fuel prices

Coaches and trucks travelling at less than 30 kilometres per hour: French lorry drivers are taking part in a go-slow operation across the country to protest against soaring fuel prices caused by the war in the Middle East and to demand more substantial support from the government....

01/04/2026 14:42 France 24

Russia demands France release woman arrested for suspected espionage

Moscow is demanding that Russian-French national Anna Novikova be freed after she was detained in France last year ⁠on suspicion of espionage. Novikova is suspected of trying to obtain information about French economic interests. ...

01/04/2026 13:44 France 24

Brussels urges EU states to 'coordinate' in face of oil price hike

The European Commission on Tuesday urged EU member states to make "timely and coordinated preparations" to secure oil supplies in the face of surging energy prices caused by the Middle East war. US-Israeli attacks on Iran and Tehran's retaliatory strikes have roiled markets and triggered a surge in...

01/04/2026 13:06 France 24

US Trump says will be leaving Iran 'very soon'

US President Donald Trump said the military could end its Iran offensive in two to three weeks and will shift responsibility for the Strait of Hormuz to countries that rely on it for oil and shipping as the White House announced a prime-time presidential address Wednesday evening on the war. FRANCE...

01/04/2026 13:02 France 24

Gulf allies privately make the case to Trump to keep fighting Iran

Gulf allies of the United States, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, are urging President Donald Trump to continue prosecuting the war against Iran, arguing that Tehran hasn't been weakened enough by the monthlong US-led bombing campaign, according to US, Gulf and Israeli officials....

01/04/2026 12:58 France 24

'Strategy of ecological terror. Desalination as a weapon of war' in the Middle East

Eve Irvine is pleased to welcome Dr. Michael Christopher Low, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Middle East Center at the University of Utah. As a historian of infrastructure and environmental systems in the Middle East, his work examines how seemingly technical systems, like desal...

01/04/2026 11:18 France 24

Trump says the US could end the Iran war in two to three weeks

President Donald Trump said the United States could end its military attacks on Iran within two to three weeks and Tehran did not have to make a deal as a prerequisite for the conflict to wind down. The remarks underscored the shifting and at times contradictory statements from Washington about...

01/04/2026 10:33 France 24

War in the Middle East: Israeli strikes kill 7 in Lebanon

Israeli strikes in south Beirut and a nearby area killed seven people and wounded dozens, Lebanon's health ministry said on Wednesday. Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war on March 2 when Hezbollah launched attacks on Israel to avenge the killing of Iran's leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Israe...

01/04/2026 10:22 France 24

France 'very unhelpful': Trump lashes out at allies

President Donald Trump expressed frustration Tuesday with allies who have been unwilling to do more to support the US war effort, telling them to “go get your own oil” as the conflict with Iran and its closure of the Strait of Hormuz sent average US gas prices past $4 a gallon. FRANCE 24's Inte...

01/04/2026 09:36 France 24

Trump strongly considering pulling US out of NATO, Britain's Telegraph reports

US President Donald Trump said he was strongly considering pulling the United States out of NATO in an interview published Wednesday by Britain's Daily Telegraph, describing the Western alliance as a "paper tiger". The threat comes after European allies declined to join his war against Iran....

01/04/2026 09:13 France 24

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