Category: 3. Middle East

March 14 (Reuters) – Kharg Island, where U.S. forces on Friday destroyed military targets, is the hub for 90% of Iran’s oil exports and has long been seen as a key vulnerability that would provoke a severe response by Tehran if attacked.

President…

Iran threatened Saturday to reduce US-linked oil facilities to “a pile of ashes” as the two-week-old Middle East war spilled over into a global oil price crisis.

Iranian armed forces issued the warning after US President Donald Trump said he may…

Videos posted by social media users showed smoke rising from the US embassy in Baghdad after a reported attack. Iraqi officials said a helipad at the embassy was hit by a missile.

Mukalla, Yemen – A reported decision to impose thousands of dollars in fees on shipping headed for Yemen has experts worried that the price of imported goods and food will increase in the war-torn country, as it starts to feel the economic…

Donald Trump shared footage of air strikes hours after saying the US carried out “powerful bombing raids” on Iran’s oil hub of Kharg Island. He said the US hit military targets but threatened to go after oil facilities if Iran…

By Kanishka Singh

WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) – White House AI czar David Sacks said on Friday the U.S. should “declare victory and get out” of its war on Iran, a rare instance of a prominent figure in Donald Trump’s administration calling for…

Threatened by volleys of Hezbollah rockets and missiles from Iran, residents of Arab towns in northern Israel are complaining about a lack of public shelters.

“The state is obliged to build public shelters so that the entire population has access…

By Bo Erickson, Parisa Hafezi, Maya Gebeily and Alexander Cornwell

WASHINGTON/DUBAI/JERUSALEM, March 14 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to order strikes on the petroleum infrastructure of Iran’s Kharg Island oil hub unless…

US President Donald Trump said the United States is “way ahead of schedule” in its war with Iran, responding to a reporter’s questions about when the war will end. Trump also claimed Iran had been “decimated.”