US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi have spoken by phone several times since Israel began its strikes on Iran last week, in a bid to find a diplomatic end to the crisis,

Intense Israeli airstrikes targeted Iran’s capital early Wednesday in a conflict that a human rights group said had killed at least 585 people across Iran and wounded 1,326 others. The Washington-based group Human Rights Activists said it had identified 239 of those killed in Israeli strikes as civilians and 126

Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran will not accept any kind of imposed peace and warned the U.S. to not get involved in the ongoing conflict with Israel. CBS News' Debora Patta reports.

The aim of the talks which the German source said are taking place in coordination with the US, is to persuade Iran to guarantee it will use its nuclear program solely for civilian purposes.

As tensions soar in West Asia, the foreign ministers of Germany, France, and Britain are set to meet their Iranian counterpart in Geneva on Friday (20 June) for crucial talks over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, according to a Reuters reported, citing a German diplomatic source.

The continent’s most important leaders are divided over Israel’s conduct and filled with fears about a spiraling regional conflict.

JERUSALEM: Israel struck a key Iranian nuclear site on Thursday (Jun 19) and Iranian missiles hit an Israeli hospital, as President Donald Trump kept the world guessing about whether the US would join Israel in air strikes seeking to destroy Tehran's nuclear facilities.