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What you need to know
- Israel and Lebanon have agreed to renew their ceasefire after talks at the US State Department
- Iran has been insisting that hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon must also end before a deal can be reached with the US
- Earlier on Wednesday, the US military carried out strikes on Iran’s Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz “in response to attempted attacks by Iran”
- In response, Iran‘s Islamic Revolutionary Guards said they fired at Kuwait’s international airport in an attack which killed one and injured at least 63 others
- Despite the strikes, Donald Trump says talks with Iran are going “very well” and that a deal could be sealed “over the weekend”
- Iran, however, says “no tangible progress” has been made in negotiations with the US
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Skip next section Israel, Lebanon agree to renew ceasefire after US-brokered talks06/04/2026June 4, 2026
Israel, Lebanon agree to renew ceasefire after US-brokered talks
Israel and Lebanon on Wednesday agreed to renew a shaky ceasefire and to create “pilot” security zones in southern Lebanon.
While a ceasefire was initially agreed in early April, Israel and Hezbollah have continued to trade fire.
Lebanon says over 3,300 people have been killed and more than 10,000 injured since the fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed militants resumed in March.
Under the terms of the agreement, which was mediated by the United States, Hezbollah would withdraw from the security zones in southern Lebanon.
In a joint statement, Israel and Lebanon said the truce hinges on the “complete cessation of Hezbollah fire and the evacuation of all Hezbollah operatives” from south of the Litani River.
It was unclear how the security zones, which would be controlled by the Lebanese army, will be set up.
“These steps will enable progress towards a comprehensive peace and security agreement,” the statement said.
Iran, which supports Hezbollah, has insisted that any peace deal to end the war with the US and Israel include the cessation of hostilities in Lebanon. Hezbollah has not been included in the talks between Israel and Lebanon.
“All countries reaffirmed that the future of the relationship between Israel and Lebanon must be decided by the two sovereign governments. They rejected any attempt, by any state or non-state actor, to hold Lebanon’s future hostage,” the statement said, referring to Iran.
“Israel and Lebanon reaffirmed that they have no hostile intent toward one another and committed to continuing direct negotiations to build confidence, resolve all outstanding issues, and work toward a comprehensive agreement between the two countries,” the statement added.
Israel and Lebanon will reconvene for more talks on June 22, the joint statement said.
https://p.dw.com/p/5Eow9Skip next section US House votes for resolution that would end Iran war06/04/2026June 4, 2026
US House votes for resolution that would end Iran war
The House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the US Congress, passed a resolution on Wednesday to halt President Donald Trump from continuing the war against Iran.
Four Republicans voted with the Democrats in favor of the war powers resolution, which had failed to pass on three previous occasions.
The vote is largely symbolic, as the resolution would have to be approved by the Senate, where Republicans also have a slim majority. Trump would also be expected to veto the measure if the Senate passed it.
But the vote reflects the growing opposition to the US war against Iran and is a clear rebuke of the US president.
“This is a loud and unambiguous message to Donald Trump on behalf of the American people: it’s time to end his deeply unpopular and illegal war of choice in Iran,” the House Foreign Affairs Committee Democrats posted on X.
https://p.dw.com/p/5EovrSkip next section Trump says talks with Iran are going ‘very well’06/03/2026June 3, 2026
Trump says talks with Iran are going ‘very well’
US President Donald Trump has said that talks with Iran could yield results over the coming weekend.
“I hear the negotiation itself is going very well actually,” Trump told reporters.
“It could happen… over the weekend,” Trump said of reaching a potential deal.
Trump’s remarks come despite the US and Iran trading the heaviest fire on Wednesday since the April ceasefire was agreed.
Iranian drones struck Kuwait’s international airport, killing one person and injuring dozens.
Trump’s comments are in contrast to Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who has said that lines of communication with the United States were still open, but “no tangible progress” had been made in negotiations to end the war.
The US president also said that US-Iran talks should be separated from that of Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Iran has insisted that the ceasefire agreement with the US includes “all fronts, including in Lebanon.”
“I’d like to separate it, I’d like to have a separate thing, because it is, it is separate,” Trump said.
“We actually spoke with Hezbollah for the first time, ever,” the US president said of efforts to halt the fighting in Lebanon.
“They agreed yesterday they’re not going to shoot, Israel’s not going to shoot, we’re just going to see,” Trump added.
Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon on Wednesday killed at least nine people. Hezbollah also said it attacked troops in northern Israel.
https://p.dw.com/p/5EougSkip next section Iran says ‘no tangible progress’ with US but still in contact06/03/2026June 3, 2026
Iran says ‘no tangible progress’ with US but still in contact
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said lines of communication with the US were still open even though “no tangible progress” has been made in negotiations to end the conflict.
He also warned that any attack on the Lebanese capital Beirut would trigger a “full-scale resumption” of the war.
“Communications with the Americans have not been cut off, and messages have been exchanged regarding the need to stop aggression against Beirut, but no tangible progress has been made in the negotiation process,” Iran’s Tasnim news agency quoted him as saying.
“Returning to the negotiating table is conditional on ensuring the rights of the Iranian people, ending the war in Lebanon, and stopping tensions in the region,” he added.
Iran has repeatedly has not backed down from the demand that any deal to end the war must also halt the fighting in Lebanon, where Israel has stepped up its attacks against Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
Iranian news agencies quoted Araghchi as saying that the war between Iran and Israel and the US is “inseparable from the fate of the battle in Lebanon, and these two fronts have been intertwined since day one.”
“Any attack on Beirut will have grave consequences and will lead to a full-scale resumption of the war,” he continued, adding Iran’s “armed forces are ready to strike Israel if it attacks Beirut.” He also insisted that for the war in Lebanon to end, Israeli forces must withdraw from the country.
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https://p.dw.com/p/5EorJSkip next section Trump says Israel is complicating peace talks06/03/2026June 3, 2026
Trump says Israel is complicating peace talks
US President Donald Trump confirmed an earlier report that he had sharply criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “crazy.”
In an interview on the The New York Post podcast “Pod Force One,” Trump said he was “a little bit perturbed” that Israel’s fighting with Hezbollah in Lebanon is holding back peace talks with Iran.
“At some point I said, Bibi, we got to stop this. We got to stop it,” Trump said, referring to Netanyahu by his nickname.
Trump still insisted that the relationship between him and Netanyahu was a good one.
“We’ve worked very well together. I like Bibi a lot. And I work very well with him,” he said.
For his part, Netanyahu also addressed the reports about Trump’s scolding, saying in an interview to US channel CNBC channel that he and Trump sometimes had “tactical disagreements” but that they agreed on the main issues concerning Iran.
“He respects me. I respect him. We always find a way to work out our differences,” the Israeli prime minister said.
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https://p.dw.com/p/5Eod6Skip next section Nine killed in southern Lebanon in Israeli airstrikes06/03/2026June 3, 2026
Nine killed in southern Lebanon in Israeli airstrikes
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported strikes on around 20 locations in the country’s south on Wednesday.
Israel’s army issued evacuation warnings for several south Lebanon villages ahead of the attacks.
At least nine people, including two paramedics, were killed in the strikes, Lebanon said.
Meanwhile, an Israeli strike has hit a car on a busy highway south of Beirut hours before new Lebanon–Israel talks in Washington.
The strike in Khaldeh came without warning, and it was not immediately clear whether the car’s occupants were killed.
Israel has typically said such strikes target members of the Hezbollah militant group.
It comes days after a US-brokered arrangement between Israel and Lebanon in which Israel agreed to avoid strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs while Hezbollah halted attacks on northern Israel.
Shortly after the strike, Israel’s military said it had intercepted a “hostile aircraft” from southern Lebanon.
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https://p.dw.com/p/5En1sSkip next section 1 killed, more than 60 injured in Kuwait airport attack06/03/2026June 3, 2026
1 killed, more than 60 injured in Kuwait airport attack
An Iranian attack on Kuwait‘s international airport on Wednesday morning injured at least 63 people, the Gulf country’s Health Ministry has said.
One person was also reported to have died in the attack, which has been claimed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The IRGC said the attack was in retaliation for US attacks on an Iranian tanker and an island.
“In response to this aggression, the Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait, which hosts helicopters, as well as the headquarters of the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, were targeted with missiles and drones by the Guards’ forces,” the Guards said in a statement on their official Telegram channel cited by the AFP news agency.
Kuwait’s state news agency said that the attack caused severe damage to the airport’s Terminal 1, with flights by Kuwait Airways resuming later in the day from Terminal 4, according to the civil aviation authority.
Kuwait’s Foreign Ministry said the country reserves the right to respond to Iran and that it will “neither accept nor tolerate” such attacks.
Before Wednesday’s attack, Kuwait had gone through a period of relative calm since a ceasefire in the Iran war was announced on April 8.
https://p.dw.com/p/5En0ESkip next section Kuwait resumes some flights after deadly airport strike06/03/2026June 3, 2026
Kuwait resumes some flights after deadly airport strike
Kuwait‘s civil aviation authority says the country’s flagship airline has resumed flights after an Iranian attack on the Gulf country’s international airport in which one person was reported to have been killed.
“The General Authority of Civil Aviation announced on Wednesday the resumption of all Kuwait Airways flights only, from Kuwait International Airport,” it said in a statement.
The airline is currently operating from Terminal 4 of the international airport after evaluating damage and taking safety measures, according to the aviation authority.
The state news agency had earlier said there had been “severe damage” to the airport’s Terminal 1 building in the early morning attack, in which several people were also injured.
The attack on the airport forced authorities to divert flights, the agency reported.
https://p.dw.com/p/5EmVOSkip next section OECD cuts global growth forecast amid war fallout06/03/2026June 3, 2026
OECD cuts global growth forecast amid war fallout
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has revised its prediction for global economic growth downward owing to the war in the Middle East.
In its quarterly update, the group, which brings together 38 industrialized countries, put its growth forecast at 2.8% if Gulf exports of oil and gas return to the levels seen before the conflict in the third quarter.
But it said that if the war continued into 2027, global growth this year could fall to 2.1% and to 1.8% next year.
For Germany, the OECD is predicting growth of 0.7% this year, rising to 1.1% in 2027, with both predictions revised down from the March forecasts in view of rising energy costs.
“The conflict in the Middle East has become the dominant force shaping the global economic outlook,” it wrote in the introduction to its report.
https://p.dw.com/p/5ElasSkip next section Kuwait suspends flights after drone strike06/03/2026June 3, 2026
Kuwait suspends flights after drone strike
Kuwait has suspended commercial flights after a drone attack struck its main airport.
Officials said multiple drones hit Kuwait International Airport, damaging the passenger terminal and injuring several people.
Defense Ministry spokesperson Saud Abdulaziz Al-Otaibi said “a number of hostile drones” targeted the facility, causing severe structural damage and multiple casualties.
Kuwait, a US ally, has been hit by repeated Iranian attacks since the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran in late February.
https://p.dw.com/p/5ElNtSkip next section Talks between Israel and Lebanon to resume Wednesday06/03/2026June 3, 2026
Talks between Israel and Lebanon to resume Wednesday
High-stakes talks between Israel and Lebanon are set to resume Wednesday at the US State Department.
Both Israel and Lebanon are represented by their ambassadors to the US, CNN reported.
On Tuesday, Israel kept up strikes on a string of towns in southern Lebanon, despite a US-mediated partial ceasefire announced on Monday.
President Donald Trump on Monday held two tense calls with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and angrily confronted him on one of the phone calls, according to reports.
Trump called Netanyahu after the Israeli president on Monday ordered strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, known as Dahiyeh.
Israel pounded Dahiyeh early in the war but has carried out only two strikes there since Trump declared a Lebanon ceasefire in April.
Tehran has insisted that Lebanon should be part of a ceasefire agreement to facilitate negotiations to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and lift a US blockade of Iranian ports.
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https://p.dw.com/p/5El5rSkip next section Renewed attacks take place amid stalled diplomatic efforts06/03/2026June 3, 2026
Renewed attacks take place amid stalled diplomatic efforts
The renewed attacks happened after Iran stopped communicating with mediators about extending a ceasefire in the war with the US and Israel, according to reports Tuesday from two semiofficial Iranian news agencies.
President Donald Trump disputed the claim and said talks were continuing.
The reports by the Fars and Tasnim news agencies, both believed to be close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, came as tensions flared in Israel’s separate-but-related fight against the Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah in Lebanon.
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https://p.dw.com/p/5El1rSkip next section US fired at ship headed toward Iranian port, CENTCOM says06/03/2026June 3, 2026
US fired at ship headed toward Iranian port, CENTCOM says
In other developments, the US military said it fired a missile to disable an oil tanker heading for the Iranian port of Kharg Island.
It was the seventh ship stopped by the military while trying to run a maritime blockade on Iran, US Central Command said.
The Botswana-flagged merchant vessel M/T Lexie was stopped by an aircraft firing a Hellfire missile into its engine room after the crew ignored repeated warnings over 24 hours, the post said.
President Donald Trump announced the maritime blockade after earlier talks between Iranian and American delegations fell through in April.
https://p.dw.com/p/5El1sSkip next section US and Iran launched renewed strikes in Gulf06/03/2026June 3, 2026
US and Iran launched renewed strikes in Gulf
US Central Command said Iran fired missiles at Kuwait and Bahrain, which were thwarted or failed, prompting US forces to hit back at Iran’s Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz.
“Iran launched several ballistic missiles toward regional neighbors; however, all failed to hit their intended targets. Two Iranian missiles fired at Kuwait fell short or broke apart enroute, and three missiles launched at Bahrain were immediately intercepted by U.S. and Bahrain air defense forces,” CENTCOM said on X.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said it had attacked the US Fifth Fleet headquarters, a US naval facility in Bahrain, with missiles and drones.
Iranian state media reported the Guards launched the attack in response to US strikes on Qeshm Island.
Iran and the US said last week that they had reached a tentative deal to halt the war, but the two sides have yet to sign off on any agreement.
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The US and Iran traded renewed fire in the Middle East on Wednesday as tensions continued over the fate of peace talks to eventually bring an end to the conflict.
The US military said it carried out “self-defense” strikes on Iran’s Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz.
The US Central Command said the strikes were in response to what it described as “attempted attacks by Iran across the Middle East.”
The US military earlier said it stopped an oil tanker headed toward Iran that was trying to evade a US maritime blockade around the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said it had targeted the headquarters of the US Navy’s 5th Fleet in Bahrain and another country in its attack, without naming Kuwait.
Iran initially fired drones at a vessel transiting the Persian Gulf after the US targeted the oil tanker, US officials said.
Iran said its forces fired drones and missiles targeting US installations in response to the US attack on Iran’s Qeshm Island.
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