Category: 3. Middle East

“I don’t think 2,500 [US] Marines will make any difference whatsoever to opening up the strait.”
Andreas Krieg, Associate Professor at King’s College London, says that US plans to deploy 2,500 marines to the Gulf is unlikely to…

March 17 (Reuters) – Air traffic in the United Arab Emirates returned to normal after temporary precautionary measures were lifted, state news agency WAM reported on Tuesday, citing the country’s General Civil Aviation Authority.

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Rescuers are combing through the wreckage of a drug rehabilitation centre in Kabul where Afghan officials say a Pakistani strike has killed at least 400 people.

Multiple blasts have struck Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri, killing and wounding dozens of people, according to witnesses, with police deploying explosives’ clearance teams to three locations…

By Kanishka Singh

WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) – A Palestinian woman was released on bond from a Texas immigration detention center on Monday after a judge’s order, the last pro-Palestinian activist held under the Trump administration’s…

Footage shows the aftermath of deadly blasts in Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria. Authorities in Borno state say suspected suicide bombings hit two local markets and a university.

‘For 40 years, we’re protecting you’: US President Donald Trump criticises allies’ reluctance to commit forces to open the key waterway for Gulf oil exports.

The 33-year-old Columbia University protester had been held in immigration detention centre for a year.

By Humeyra Pamuk

WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday urged U.S. diplomats abroad to push allies to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Lebanon-based Hezbollah as terrorist groups,…

No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, which took place amid the escalating Israel-US war on Iran.