War in the Middle East: American deputies approve a text ordering an end to the conflict against Iran

The Kuwaiti army said on Wednesday that it had faced around thirty missile and drone attacks as part of an “Iranian aggression”, which left one dead and many injured.

“The armed forces detected 13 hostile ballistic missiles in Kuwaiti airspace since dawn, which were intercepted over several residential areas, resulting in falling debris. The armed forces also detected and engaged their forces against 17 hostile drones,” the army said on its X account.

The Israeli army declared having intercepted two “shots” coming from Lebanon, after a first interception of an “enemy aircraft” a few hours earlier.

“Following alerts triggered recently in the Misgav Am area, the air force intercepted two shots which crossed the border from Lebanon towards Israeli territory,” the army declared in a brief press release.

Israeli authorities have warned that the army will strike the southern suburbs of Beirut if pro-Iranian Hezbollah continues to attack Israeli towns in the north of the country, at a time when talks are being held in Washington between the two countries.

The American House of Representatives adopted a text on Wednesday ordering the withdrawal of American troops in the war against Iran, a snub for Donald Trump who engaged the United States in this conflict on February 28.

The resolution – adopted with the votes of four Republican deputies – however has a primarily symbolic significance, due to the American president’s right of veto.

Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he wanted to “separate” discussions on Lebanon from those on Iran, while Tehran considers, on the contrary, that they are one and the same subject.

“I would like to separate them,” the American president said during an exchange with the press in the Oval Office.

Donald Trump said on Wednesday that discussions with Iran could be concluded “this weekend”, but did not rule out that they would fail.

The negotiations are going “very well”, judged the American president during an exchange with the press in the Oval Office.

The Iranian Foreign Minister said Wednesday evening that there was “no tangible progress” in negotiations with the United States to end the war in the Middle East, according to an interview on Lebanese television reported by the Tasnim agency.

“Messages have been exchanged regarding the need to end the aggression against Beirut but no tangible progress has been made in the negotiation process,” Abbas Araghchi said, referring to the Israeli strikes against pro-Iranian Hezbollah in Lebanon.

And “the return to the negotiating table is conditional on the guarantee of the rights of the Iranian people, the end of the war in Lebanon and the reduction of tensions in the region”, he listed without further detail.

Iran’s foreign minister warned Wednesday that any attack on Beirut would lead to “a full-scale resumption of war” in the Middle East, after Israeli threats targeting pro-Iranian Hezbollah.

“If the Israeli aggression against Beirut continues, our armed forces are fully ready to resume the war and strike targets inside Israel,” Abbas Araghchi added to the Lebanese Al Mayadeen TV channel, according to the Iranian news agency Tasnim.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned on Tuesday that the southern suburbs of Beirut, a stronghold of the Shiite movement, would be hit if it targeted its territory.

Iran will respond in a “decisive, regrettable and proportionate” manner to any attack coming from the United States or Israel, its chief negotiator, the Speaker of Parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, warned on Wednesday, quoted by the ISNA agency.

Also speaking of a “decisive response” in the event of a new “hostile action”, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghchi, justified on are authorized to be used to attack civilian shipping and violate the ceasefire.”

American President Donald Trump will participate in the next NATO summit in Turkey in July, his head of diplomacy Marco Rubio declared on Wednesday, stressing that the Atlantic Alliance must be profoundly reformed.

“The president himself will participate in the next NATO summit (…) which needs significant changes,” he declared before a parliamentary committee.

The UN Secretary General, “worried” after the new clashes between Iran and the United States, and the strikes against Kuwait, called on Wednesday “all parties to exercise maximum restraint”, his spokesperson indicated.

Antonio Guterres, particularly “disturbed” by reports of civilian casualties, “calls on all parties to exercise maximum restraint and avoid any further escalation which risks undermining ongoing diplomatic efforts”, Stéphane Dujarric told the press.

Kuwait denounced on Wednesday an Iranian drone strike on its airport, the first deadly salvo since the entry into force of a ceasefire increasingly weakened by clashes between Iran and the United States in the Gulf.

Traffic was suspended a few hours after this attack which killed an Indian national and left 63 injured, including brain hemorrhages and amputations.

Lebanese Hezbollah said Wednesday that it had targeted Israel, which threatened to strike the southern suburbs of Beirut in the event of an attack on its territory, and whose new raids in Lebanon left at least nine dead, including two rescue workers and a soldier.

At the same time, Lebanese and Israeli diplomats are meeting in Washington for a new session of negotiations, which the American Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said he hoped would lead to an “action plan” on security in Lebanon.

The pro-Iranian formation said it had targeted soldiers in northern Israel, in its first claim of this type since Monday evening.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned on Tuesday that the southern suburbs of Beirut, a stronghold of the Shiite movement, would be hit if the latter targeted its territory.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Iran was playing “with fire” after the first deadly attack in the Gulf since the entry into force of a ceasefire, in which Iranian drones hit Kuwait airport, killing one person.

“Iran certainly knows what the (American) president said, namely that, if necessary, we would return to large-scale military action,” Mr. Netanyahu explained in an interview with the American channel CNBC.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that he shared with American President Donald Trump the objective of disarming Hezbollah and demilitarizing Lebanon, in an interview with the American channel CNBC.

“If we want to save Lebanon, if we want to achieve peace between Lebanon and Israel, as I hope, we must disarm Hezbollah and demilitarize Lebanon,” Mr. Netanyahu said, adding that “this is a goal that the president and I share, and this is what we must do.”

The Kuwaiti army said on Wednesday that it had faced around thirty missile and drone attacks as part of an “Iranian aggression”, which left one dead and many injured.

“The armed forces detected 13 hostile ballistic missiles in Kuwaiti airspace since dawn, which were intercepted over several residential areas, resulting in falling debris. The armed forces also detected and engaged their forces against 17 hostile drones,” the army said on its X account.

The Israeli army declared having intercepted two “shots” coming from Lebanon, after a first interception of an “enemy aircraft” a few hours earlier.

“Following alerts triggered recently in the Misgav Am area, the air force intercepted two shots which crossed the border from Lebanon towards Israeli territory,” the army declared in a brief press release.

Israeli authorities have warned that the army will strike the southern suburbs of Beirut if pro-Iranian Hezbollah continues to attack Israeli towns in the north of the country, at a time when talks are being held in Washington between the two countries.

Hospitals in Kuwait received around 60 injured people after an Iranian drone attack on the airport, which also left one dead, according to the Kuwaiti Health Ministry.

Twenty-five ambulances were dispatched to the site and 63 people were hospitalized, including “civilians, airport employees and travelers”, presenting in particular “head injuries, hemorrhages brain injuries, amputations and injuries resulting from the explosions”, specifies the ministry in a press release.

The US president said he “would like to meet” Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, as shootings between the United States and Iran increase in the Gulf region.

“I would love to meet him. I would love to meet everyone and we will probably meet, depending on what happens,” he added as Washington and Tehran accuse each other of violating an increasingly fragile ceasefire.

The ideological army of the Islamic Republic of Iran claimed responsibility for strikes on Kuwait this Wednesday, carried out in retaliation for American attacks against an Iranian oil tanker and an island.

“In response to this aggression, the Ali al-Salem air base in Kuwait housing helicopters, as well as the headquarters of the US Fifth Naval Fleet in Bahrain, were attacked by missiles and drones of the Guardian forces”, indicated the latter on their official Telegram channel.

One person was killed and several injured in Kuwait in dawn attacks by Iran, the Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry said.

The attack targeted “civilian and vital installations, including Kuwait international airport, leaving one dead and others injured, as well as damage to vital installations, including diplomatic missions,” the ministry said in a statement condemning the “Iranian aggressions.” “The State of Kuwait, its sovereignty and the security of its citizens and residents on its territory constitute a red line,” he added.

An advisor to the supreme leader promises “a deluge of missiles and drones” in the event of new American aggression.

Iran also points to the “responsibility” of Kuwait and Bahrain in the American attacks.

A senior United Arab Emirates official today called for a united Gulf stance after attacks in Kuwait and Bahrain, blamed on Iran, as the region’s monarchies struggle to form a common front.

“Faced with Iran’s repeated aggression against Kuwait and Bahrain, a firm, united and coherent Gulf position is required. No Gulf state should be left alone in the face of these attacks, because the security of the States Arabs of the Gulf is interdependent, their interests and their destiny are common”, writes the adviser to the Emirati president, Anwar Garghash, on

“This aggression does not only target one country, it targets us all,” he added.

The OECD is more pessimistic for global growth in 2026 due to the rise in energy and fertilizer prices caused by the war in the Middle East.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development lowered its forecast in its quarterly report on the world economy, according to two scenarios: that of growth reduced to 2.8% in the event of “disruptions limited in time”, or a clear slowdown to 2.1% if these continued until 2027. It was forecasting 2.9% previously. Â

In France, the growth outlook was lowered to 0.7% (-0.1 point) in 2026 and to 0.8% in 2027 (-0.2 point), assuming limited disruptions.

Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon left five people dead yesterday, including a child, and 48 injured, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.

Among those injured in these strikes across the south are “a doctor and five employees of the Tebnine public hospital, which suffered damage in a new episode of the series of attacks carried out by the Israeli enemy against hospitals and centers of health”, indicated the ministry in a press release.

“Enemy drones today targeted the passenger terminal (T1) of Kuwait International Airport, as part of an Iranian aggression, which resulted in significant material damage and injured several people,” the Kuwaiti army said on X.

The civil aviation authority suspended air traffic and flights were diverted to other airports, according to the official Kuna news agency.

The US military says it has repelled several Iranian attacks, by missiles and drones, against its bases and allies in the region, and responded by ground bombing an Iranian island.

“Iran launched several ballistic missiles at countries in the region, but all missed their targets,” the US military command for the Middle East wrote in a statement on X, adding that no members of the army were injured.

In response, Centcom said it “conducted self-defense strikes” on ground targets on the Iranian island of Qeshm, in the Strait of Hormuz.