Category: 3. Middle East

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Iran struck Kuwait International Airport on Wednesday, severely damaging the facility and leaving at least one dead. The attack prompted widespread condemnation in the Gulf as Kuwait summoned Iran’s charge d’affaires to deliver an official…

Jean-Yves Le Drian, France’s special envoy for Lebanon, is to arrive in Beirut on Wednesday as Paris seeks to restore its flagging diplomatic role in the country, experts say.

When the former French foreign minister meets President Joseph Aoun,…

By Benjamin Raab

JERUSALEM, June 3 (Reuters) – Israel’s hardline finance minister announced on Wednesday a major expansion by more than 2,000 homes of three Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank that Palestinians hope will be part of a…

By Samia Nakhoul

DUBAI, June 3 (Reuters) – The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran was meant to break the Islamic Republic. Instead, the warring sides are edging towards an interim agreement that would leave Iran battered but not broken.

As the outlines of a…

When Nigel Farage, leader of the far-right, anti-immigration party Reform UK, addressed the nation while bizarrely standing in a field this week, he was a man on a mission.

“It is time to respond with pure cold rage,” he pronounced.

Iran fired missiles at Kuwait and Bahrain in the early hours of Wednesday, and the United States launched strikes on Iran’s Qeshm Island, as tensions in the Gulf spiked amid an impasse in diplomatic efforts to end the war between Tehran and…

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, June 3 (Reuters) – Israeli drone strikes killed at least six people in southern Lebanon and targeted a car just south of Beirut on Wednesday, Lebanese security sources said, while Israel said it intercepted a hostile aircraft…

BRUSSELS, June 3 (Reuters) – The European Union’s diplomatic service has proposed that the bloc’s Aspides naval mission take “the primary role” in clearing mines in the Strait of Hormuz “when conditions allow” as Europe’s contribution to a…

Previous World Cup appearances: 6
Best performance: Fourth place (2022)
First appearance: 1970 (Mexico)
Top goal scorer: Youssef En-Nesyri (3)
Most appearances: Achraf Hakimi, Hakim Ziyech (10)
Player to watch: Brahim Diaz
FIFA world ranking: 8

The FIFA…