Iran-US war life: Tehran warns of more fighting after Germany says it expected Trump’s withdrawal of US troopsnewsline24

Poland’s prime minister has said Nato is “disintegrating” in a post on X.

Donald Tusk wrote on social media: “The greatest threat to the transatlantic community are not its external enemies, but the ongoing disintegration of our alliance. We must all do what it takes to reverse this disastrous trend.”

The UAE’s aviation authority said air traffic in the country has returned to normal, the state news agency reported on Saturday.

It comes after precautionary measures implemented on February 28 at the start of the Iran war were lifted.

The decision followed a comprehensive assessment of operational and security conditions in coordination with relevant entities, the General Civil Aviation Authority added.

A renewed conflict between Iran and the US is “likely”, a senior Iranian official has warned that

Mohammad Jafar Asadi, a senior figure in the Iranian military’s central command, told Iran’s Fars news agency that “a renewed conflict between Iran and the United States is likely”

“Evidence has shown that the United States is not committed to any promises or agreements,” he added.

It comes amid growing fears the truce could collapse imminently.

Donald Trump has declared he is “not satisfied” by the peace deals offered by Iran.

The Iranians are “trying to make a good deal [for them] and we’re not going to let that happen,” he added.

“They’ve got to make a bad deal. Maybe we’re better off not making a deal at all”.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi was in an unstable condition in an Iranian hospital on Saturday after she was taken there from prison following a catastrophic deterioration of her health, a foundation run by her family said.

The secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awarded Mohammadi the 2023 prize, had expressed concern on Thursday that the condition of the Iranian human rights activist was worsening after she had suffered a heart attack in prison.

Mohammadi, in her 50s, won the prize while in prison for her campaign to advance women’s rights and abolish the death penalty in Iran.

The Narges Mohammadi Foundation said in a statement on its website on Friday that she had been “urgently transferred to a hospital in Zanjan today following a catastrophic deterioration of her health, including two episodes of complete loss of consciousness and a severe cardiac crisis”.

This transfer was an “unavoidable necessity after prison doctors determined her condition could not be managed on-site,” it said.

In an update on Saturday, the foundation said she remained in an unstable condition receiving oxygen. It called for her to be transferred to a hospital in Tehran for tests and specialised treatment.

In Gaza, where a ceasefire agreed in October was supposed to bring an end to killing, another seven people have been killed by Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours.

Citing medical sources, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that hospitals were reporting another seven people killed.

It brings the total number of people killed since the ceasefire was supposed to come into place to 828.

As we’ve been reporting, the US has announced it will withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany following a spat between Donald Trump and German chancellor Friedrich Merz.

US troops are stationed in more than a dozen European countries. Germany, Italy and Britain have the biggest presence of personnel. This list comprises some of the largest contingents.

Germany: The largest US base in Europe is the air base near the German city of Ramstein, where troops have been stationed since 1952. According to DMDC data, as of December 2025, 36,436 active service members were stationed in Germany, divided into five garrisons.

Italy: U.S. military personnel have been stationed in Italy since the end of World War Two and comprise Army, Navy and Air Force divisions. Italy hosted 12,662 active-duty soldiers at the end of 2025 across bases in Vicenza, Aviano, Naples and Sicily.

Britain: The US forces in the United Kingdom comprised 10,156 service members as of December last year, garrisoned in three bases, hosting mainly Air Force personnel.

Spain: The country hosts U.S. Navy and Air Force bases near the Strait of Gibraltar. Around 3,814 personnel were permanently assigned to Spain.

Other countries hosting permanently assigned US troops include Poland (369), Romania (153), and Hungary (77).

Three more people have been killed in Israel in airstrikes on a southern Lebanese town, as Israeli bombardment continues despite a temporary ceasefire agreed weeks ago.

According to Lebanon’s state media, at least three were killed in an Israeli attack on the town of Choukine, in the Nabatieh district.

Al Jazeera reports that this brings the death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon to 10.

Rishi Sunak, the former prime minister, has written in The Times about the UK’s relationship with Ukraine, and how it has been impacted by the ongoing war in Iran.

“The Iran conflict has confirmed that the nature of warfare has changed, and Ukraine is the western-aligned nation that knows best how to fight in this new way,” Mr Sunak wrote.

“This is why so many Gulf states have rushed to sign defence deals with Kyiv since the Iranian attacks started.”

The former prime minister says that Kyiv’s defence tech prowess is what makes it such a valuable partner to the UK.

“Ukraine is not a charity case but a nation that can help others to combat threats from the axis of authoritarian states — Iran, Russia, China and North Korea — who constantly share battlefield technologies.”

Air India is cutting nearly 100 flights as soaring jet fuel costs take a toll on the struggling flag carrier, deepening the fallout on the aviation sector of the US-Israeli war on Iran.

CEO Campbell Wilson said the airline had already reduced overseas operations for May as increasing fuel costs and airspace restrictions in India’s neighbourhood were making its overseas routes way too expensive to operate. Given the situation appeared unlikely to improve, especially as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz continued to disrupt fuel supplies, the airline was making additional cuts for June and July.

“We have reduced some flying for April and May,” the CEO noted in a message to staff. “Massive rise in jet fuel prices, which together with airspace closures and longer flying routes, have caused many of our international flights to become unprofitable to operate.”

His statement came days after leading Indian airlines warned that the aviation sector was under grave financial strain due to rising fuel prices and continued airspace restrictions.

“The airline industry in India is under extreme stress and is on the verge of closing down or of stopping its operations,” the Federation of Indian Airlines said in a letter to the government.