Diplomats from regional powers meet in Pakistan to seek war's end
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Key Points:
- Top diplomats from Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt met in Islamabad, Pakistan, to discuss ending the Middle East conflict, but the U.S. and Israel did not participate, and Iran dismissed the talks as ineffective.
- The monthlong war has resulted in over 3,000 deaths, with ongoing Israeli and U.S. strikes on Iran and Iranian missile and drone attacks on Israel and Gulf Arab states.
- Iran threatened retaliatory strikes on Israeli and U.S. universities in the region after Israeli airstrikes targeted Iranian universities allegedly involved in nuclear research.
- The Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen entered the conflict by launching missile attacks on Israeli military sites, raising concerns about further destabilization of maritime security and oil shipping routes.
- Death tolls include more than 1,900 killed in Iran, 19 in Israel, over 1,100 in Lebanon, 80 Iraqi security forces, 20 in Gulf states, and four in the occupied West Bank.
