HEADLINES IN BRIEF

• The IRNA news agency, citing Iran's foreign ministry, reported that the country's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who had left Islamabad earlier in the day, "is scheduled to visit Pakistan again after completing his trip to Oman and before traveling to Russia." 

• US President Donald Trump ordered his envoys not to travel to Pakistan for talks with Iranian officials on ending the war. In a post on his Truth Social platform, he said: "There is tremendous infighting and confusion within their 'leadership.' Nobody knows who is in charge, including them." Trump said the move did not mean a restart of the war. READ MORE BELOW 

• US President Donald Trump said a shooting at a Washington media dinner would not divert him from the Iran war. "It's not going to deter me from winning the war in Iran. I don't know if that had anything to do with it, I really don't think so, based on what we know," Trump told reporters at the White House after the incident.

• Lebanese state media reported a series of new Israeli strikes in at least four different locations in the country's south, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his military to attack Hezbollah following alleged ceasefire breaches. Attacks earlier in the day reportedly killed six people, despite a recently extended ceasefire. READ MORE BELOW 

• Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi met with Omani Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said to discuss regional mediation efforts and pathways to ending conflicts. The sultan urged prioritizing "dialogue and diplomacy," while Araghchi thanked Oman for its role in supporting stability in the region.

• Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said he had spoken by phone with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian after US-Iran peace talks in Islamabad were called off. "Pakistan remains committed to serve as an honest and sincere facilitator – working tirelessly to advance durable peace and lasting stability in the region," Sharif wrote on X.

• At least four people were killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza on Sunday morning. According to health officials in the enclave, an air raid killed one person near the central village of al-Mughraqa, ⁠while Israeli gunfire and shelling killed two others near Gaza City. Separately, Israeli forces shot a 40-year-old woman dead in Khan Younis, ‌in the southern Gaza Strip, health officials said.

• The Israeli army has dropped leaflets from the skies in the Tyre district in southern Lebanon, warning residents about its military operation. The army warned residents against moving south of several villages and their surroundings, confirming its positioning to confront what it described as "the ongoing terrorist activities" of Hezbollah. 

• The International Chamber of Shipping has condemned the United States and Iran's tit-for-tat capture of commercial ships and is calling for the immediate release of their crews. In an interview with Al Jazeera, John Stawpert, marine director of the prominent shipping organization, said seafarers must be allowed to go about their business "freely and without persecution."

• Iran executed a man convicted of membership in the Sunni armed group Jaish al-Adl and involvement in attacks on security forces in the southeast, the judiciary said. It also announced the execution of a man accused of passing intelligence to Israel.

IN DETAIL

US-Iran truce talks in the balance

International efforts to mediate between the United States and Iran were in the balance on Sunday, after President Donald Trump canceled his envoys' planned trip to Pakistan for talks.

Trump said there was no point "sitting around talking about nothing" and dismissed Tehran's negotiating position, but added that Iran had revised its proposal within minutes of his decision.

"They gave us a paper that should have been better and – interestingly – immediately, when I canceled it, within 10 minutes, we got a new paper that was much better," he told reporters, without elaborating.

The White House had said Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and special envoy Steve Witkoff were to set off for Pakistan on Saturday for talks with Iran aimed at moving "toward a deal," but Trump later told Fox News he had scrapped the trip.

"We have all the cards. They can call us anytime they want, but you're not going to be making any more 18-hour flights to sit around talking about nothing," the president said he had told his team.

Asked separately whether the cancellation meant a return to hostilities, Trump said: "No, it doesn't mean that. We haven't thought about it yet."

Israel strikes Lebanon 

On the war's Lebanese front, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered strikes on Hezbollah after accusing the Iran-backed group of violating a ceasefire extended this week.

Lebanese state media reported Israeli attacks in at least four locations in the south – a pair of strikes in quick succession in a town in Bint Jbeil district, another in a town in Tyre district, and strikes on two more towns in Nabatieh district.

The strikes in Nabatieh and Bint Jbeil killed six people, according to Lebanon's health ministry.

Israel's military said it "eliminated" three Hezbollah operatives who were driving "a vehicle loaded with weapons," as well as another one riding a motorcycle, and two more armed members of the group elsewhere.

Trump had announced the three-week truce extension on Thursday and voiced optimism about peace after meeting Israeli and Lebanese envoys.

But Mohammed Raad, the head of the parliamentary bloc for Hezbollah, urged Lebanon to withdraw from talks and warned any deal would lack national consensus.