• US President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Iran agreed to a “complete and total ceasefire” on June 24, ending 12 days of tit-for-tat strikes.

• Trump’s announcement came soon after Iran launched a limited missile attack on a US military base in Qatar, retaliating for the American bombing of its nuclear sites.

• Tehran announced it would respect the terms of the deal if Israel did the same, while Israel said it had refrained from further strikes.

• While Iran and Israel have been locked in a shadow war for decades, the 12-day conflict was by far the most destructive confrontation between them.

• Israel had said its bombing campaign, which began on June 13, was aimed at preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, an ambition Tehran has consistently denied.

• Israel and Iran have fired hundreds of missiles and drones at each other’s cities and military and strategic facilities since the hostilities began.

• Israeli strikes hit nuclear and military targets — killing scientists and senior military figures — as well as residential areas, prompting waves of Iranian missile fire on Israel.

• The war culminated in US strikes on underground Iranian nuclear sites using bunker-busting bombs followed by an Iranian reprisal targeting the US military facility in Qatar.

• Hundreds of civilians have reportedly been killed in the Israeli airstrikes and thousands injured, while Iran’s retaliatory strikes killed close to 30 people in Israel.

• UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed the ceasefire announcement between Iran and Israel. 

• India welcomed the ceasefire between Iran and Israel and praised the role played by the US and Qatar in helping the two countries to come to the negotiation table.

• India launched ‘Operation Sindhu’ and evacuated its nationals on chartered flights operated from the Iranian city of Mashhad, the Armenian capital of Yerevan and the Turkmenistan capital of Ashgabat since June 18.

• In total, 3,170 Indians from Iran and Israel were evacuated after Operation Sindhu was launched following the conflict between the two countries.

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