Category: 3. Middle East

By Erin Banco, Gram Slattery and Maayan Lubell

WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM, March 23 (Reuters) – Less than 48 hours before the U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran began, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone to President Donald Trump about the reasons…

Germany calls the allegations ‘very serious’, as Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban orders probe into alleged ‘wiretapping’.

The European Commission has called for clarity from Hungary after a United…

Senior Iranian officials have denied that Iran held talks with the United States, just hours after US President Donald Trump claimed “very good and productive conversations” had taken place towards ending the war.

Iranian Parliament Speaker…

ANKARA — The United States has proposed holding talks between Vice President JD Vance and Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, a Turkish source confirmed to Al-Monitor, in a potential shift in efforts to open a diplomatic…

The US-Israeli war on Iran will have a profound impact on the global energy markets. It has already sent the price of the benchmark Brent crude oil soaring to nearly $120 per barrel, close to its highest point of $147 recorded in July 2008.

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BRUSSELS, March 23 (Reuters) – Soldiers were deployed on the streets of leading Belgian citieson Monday to bolster security for the Jewish community, after what officials said were antisemitic attacks in Belgium and the Netherlands.

The move…

The world has given Israel “a licence to torture Palestinians”, a UN expert said Monday, with life in the occupied territories “a continuum of physical and mental suffering”.

Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on the rights situation…

Strikes on gas sites are now part of the US-Israel war with Iran. But its effect will echo far beyond the Gulf, hitting power,…

After cheering on a war that is now killing Iranians and tearing apart the country, Masih Alinejad has warned Donald Trump against targeting civilian infrastructure, in a reversal that critics say lays bare the…