Pakistan announces US-Iran talks 'in coming days'

Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar made the announcement on Sunday.

ByDavid Brennan, Kevin Shalvey, Meredith Deliso, Nadine El-Bawab, and Jon Haworth
Last Updated: March 29, 2026, 4:47 PM EDT

President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes attack targeting military and government sites, officials said.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was among those killed in Tehran on the first day of strikes, with his son Mojtaba Khamenei later chosen to succeed him. Iran has responded with missile and drone attacks targeting Israel, regional U.S. bases and multiple Gulf nations. Iran is also attempting to block some shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

Israel is also intensifying its long-running strike campaign against the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon and expanding its ground operations in the south of the country.

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Mar 28, 2026, 6:51 PM EDT

Houthis launch 2 attacks against Israel, say they will continue

Yemen's Houthis carried out a second missile attack against Israel on Saturday following an earlier strike in the morning, the group said in a statement.

The group said the attack "coincided with the military operations being carried out" by Hezbollah and Iran. The statement said the group would continue to carry out military operations "until the criminal enemy ceases its attacks and aggression."

-ABC News' Ahmed Baider

Mar 28, 2026, 4:24 PM EDT

Iran to let 20 Pakistan-flagged ships through Strait of Hormuz

The Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Pakistan Ishaq Dar said on Saturday that Iran has agreed to allow 20 more Pakistan-flagged ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, two ships daily.

"This is a welcome and constructive gesture by Iran and deserves appreciation. It is a harbinger of peace and will help usher stability in the region," Dar said.

-ABC News’ Victoria Beaule

Mar 28, 2026, 3:19 PM EDT

9 paramedics killed Saturday in strikes on Lebanon: Health minister

In a press conference Saturday, the Lebanese health minister said that Israeli strikes have targeted several paramedics in the last 12 hours alone, killing nine paramedics today.

He said that paramedics who were trying to reach the journalists killed in an Israeli airstrike were also directly targeted in a second attack in that location, killing a paramedic and a civilian.

The husk of a destroyed vehicle that was used by a media crew of journalists who were killed in an Isareli strike earlier is pictured along the side of a road leading to Jezzine in southern Lebanon, on March 28, 2026.
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Fifty-one healthcare workers have been killed in Lebanon since the war began, including 46 paramedics. Eighteen ambulances have been attacked, and nine hospitals. Five hospitals have had to close.

There were five attacks on emergency medical services today, the minister said, four of them deadly.

-ABC News’ Ghazi Balkiz

Mar 28, 2026, 11:37 AM EDT

1,189 killed in Lebanon since March 2, health ministry says

Israeli forces have killed at least 1,189 people and wounded another 3,427 in Lebanon since March 2, according to the latest tally from the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health.

Among those killed were 124 children and 51 health sector personnel. Among those wounded were 409 children and 126 health sector personnel, according to the health ministry.

Hassan Badran, a local, looks at a house destroyed by an Israeli strike, amid escalating hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, as the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran continues, in Saksakiyeh, southern Lebanon, March 28, 2026.
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On Friday alone, 26 people were killed and 86 others were wounded, the health ministry said.

-ABC News’ Morgan Winsor

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