Category: 3. Middle East

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister warns Iran that regional neighbours have ‘significant’ capabilities with which to respond to Tehran’s aggression.

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud has warned Iran that…

March 19 (Reuters) – The Iranian national team are continuing to prepare for the World Cup finals and have no intention of pulling out of the tournament even if they will not travel to the United States, soccer chief Mehdi Taj said on Wednesday….

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi risks the wrath of US President Donald Trump at the White House Thursday after rebuffing his call to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

The first female premier in Japan’s history, conservative Takaichi has…

By Yomna Ehab and Jaidaa Taha

March 18 (Reuters) – Qatar’s state oil giant QatarEnergy said on Wednesday that Iranian missile attacks on Ras Laffan, the site of the country’s core LNG processing operations, caused “extensive damage”, while the UAE…

Iran targeted energy facilities across the Gulf and threatened further destructive attacks after a key gas field was hit, raising fears Thursday of a wider assault on fuel supplies that could jolt already rattled global markets.

The warning came…

Iranian strikes come after Israel attacked Iran’s South Pars gasfield, with President Pezeshkian warning of ‘uncontrollable consequences’ that could ‘engulf the entire world’.

Qatar is expelling Iran’s military and security attaches after Iranian missiles caused “extensive damage” to Ras Laffan, the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facility. Al Jazeera’s Victoria Gatenby has…

Afghans are burying the victims from a Pakistani air strike on a drug rehabilitation centre in Kabul. The UN says 143 people were killed. Islamabad denies targeting civilians.

Brazilian police say that raid in Rio de Janeiro targeted a leader of Red Command, a powerful criminal group.

At least eight people have been killed during a police raid on a neighbourhood in the centre of Rio de…

By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali, Erin Banco and Gram Slattery

WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration is considering deploying thousands of U.S. troops to reinforce its operation in the Middle East, as the U.S….