Category: 3. Middle East

Authorities say a local communist party office was lit on fire during rare antigovernment demonstration on the island.

By Steve Holland, Humeyra Pamuk, Parisa Hafezi and Alexander Cornwell

WASHINGTON/DUBAI/TEL AVIV, March 14 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration has rebuffed efforts by Middle Eastern allies to start diplomatic negotiations aimed at…

Turkey’s top diplomat said Saturday that Iran was denying responsiblity for firing ballistic missiles towards Turkey despite evidence from technical data.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said he had spoken with his Iranian counterpart Abbas…

Iran has allowed some Indian vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, saying it does not want other countries to suffer, while blocking ships linked to nations it considers hostile.

The Israeli military has been pursuing a new war tactic in targeting checkpoints set up in the Iranian capital by the paramilitary Basij force as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the United States launch more attacks.

The heavily…

US President Donald Trump on Saturday said countries that rely on oil carried through the Hormuz strait should take responsibility for keeping the passage open, with American help.

Global oil prices have surged by 40 percent as Iran has choked off…

US President Donald Trump on Saturday urged other nations to send ships to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, the critical chokepoint for global oil supplies disrupted by the Mideast war.

Trump, who has said the United States will soon start…

By Maayan Lubell and Nazih Osseiran

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT March 14 (Reuters) – The Israeli military warned on Saturday that it may strike ambulances and medical facilities which it said were being used unlawfully by Hezbollah in Lebanon, though it did…

JERUSALEM, March 14 (Reuters) – Israel and Lebanon are expected to hold direct talks in the coming days, their first since the start of the Iran war that has drawn Lebanon deeper into conflict, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Saturday,…