Category: 3. Middle East

By Nandita Bose and Bo Erickson

WASHINGTON, March 25 (Reuters) – White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday said the United States is tracking “very closely” how to get oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz.

“As far as tankers…

By Nandita Bose and Humeyra Pamuk

WASHINGTON, March 25 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump will hit Iran harder if Tehran fails to accept that the country has been “defeated militarily,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on…

KYIV, March 25 (Reuters) – Russia sought to blackmail the United States by offering to stop sharing military intelligence with Iran if, in return, Washington would cut off Ukraine from its intelligence data, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on…

WASHINGTON, March 25 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he would visit China for a rescheduled state visit with Chinese President Xi Jinping on May 14 and 15, rescheduling a closely watched trip that was delayed due to…

Iran’s regime has been more resilient than anyone would have expected, said a former head of British foreign intelligence agency MI6, adding that options for the US and Israel are “pretty limited and not…

A fireball erupted over Gaza on Wednesday as an Israeli strike tore through a tent camp housing displaced Palestinians, killing one person and injuring seven, the territory’s civil defence agency said.

The bloodshed was the latest to rock the…

By Abdelaziz Boumzar and Yara Nardi

NABATIEH, Lebanon, March 25 (Reuters) – Wearing identical uniforms, a dozen paramedics gathered around a pair of caskets in the southern Lebanese town of Nabatieh, crying so heavily their shoulders shook, as…

While Washington has signalled a diplomatic off-ramp from its war with Iran, Israel is preparing for the opposite in Lebanon — an open-ended military campaign against Hezbollah.

Analysts said the message from Israel was a blunt one: Hezbollah…

London, United Kingdom – A month after being released on bail, pro-Palestine activists who participated in a months-long hunger strike in prison are planning on taking legal action over their alleged mistreatment.

On Wednesday, at a news…

International convoys are bringing aid to Cuba to protest the US fuel blockade, as Cuba continues to fend off US threats of a takeover. With Cubans…