Category: 3. Middle East

By Jonathan Saul

LONDON, March 18 (Reuters) – A proposal from the UN’s shipping agency on Wednesday calls for a safe maritime corridor to free some 20,000 seafarers stranded in the Gulf by war in Iran.

Hundreds of vessels have dropped anchor since…

Iraq’s Electricity Ministry said Wednesday that Iranian gas flows have stopped following developments in the region, significantly reducing power generation and taking about 3,100 megawatts offline, Anadolu…

WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) – The White House said on Wednesday that China had agreed to postpone U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing, originally scheduled in just two weeks.

Spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said that the White House was…

Concerns over US involvement

The war has reignited a debate within the Iranian diaspora about what role the US should play in Iran’s future.

This question is more than a distant geopolitical issue for Iranians in Los Angeles.

Many residents…

DUBAI, March 18 (Reuters) – Facilities belonging to Iran’s oil industry in South Pars and Asaluyeh were attacked on Wednesday, Iranian state media said, prompting Tehran to warn that it would target energy installations across Saudi Arabia, the…

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called on the Conservative Party to sack Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Timothy over comments he made on social media about Muslims praying in public, Anadolu reports.

During Prime Minister’s Questions…

So who is he? And why has Washington been trying to overthrow Cuba’s leaders for 65 years? Al Jazeera’s Marthe van der Wolf explains.

Qatar foreign ministry spokesman slams Israeli attack on Iran’s offshore gasfield as ‘dangerous, irresponsible step’.

Iran has threatened to attack oil and gas facilities in the Gulf region in retaliation for an Israeli strike on its South…

How will the killing of Ali Larijani impact Iran’s leadership and the country’s security? Al Jazeera’s Osama Bin Javaid explains what Larijani’s assassination means for the war.