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The US Navy opens fire on an Iranian cargo ship, with renewed talks in Pakistan to be held before Wednesday's end to the current US-Iran ceasefire.

Will a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon take us one step closer to a wider peace deal between the US and Iran?

Australia's fragile fuel supply is under further threat after the country's largest operating oil refinery burst into flames overnight.

The US President Donald Trump says negotiations with Iran could resume as early as this week as the fuel crunch continues to hurt key industries in Australia.

The stand-off in the Strait of Hormuz deepens with a United States blockade of Iranian ports now underway.

Donald Trump orders a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz as Iran says the two sides were "inches away" from reaching a peace agreement in Pakistan.

The Israelis to hold talks with Lebanon, the US to holds talk with Iran - in all this talking, what does it all mean for peace in the Middle East? A former adviser to six US Secretaries of State and middle east negotiator weighs in.

The death toll in Lebanon rises after Israeli strikes, threatening to undermine a fragile ceasefire in the war in Iran.

The US and Iran strike a ceasefire deal, hours after the US President threatened that "a whole civilisation will die tonight" if the ultimatum expired.

Australia's most decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, arrested on war crime allegations.