Category: 3. Middle East

The strike in central Beirut hit a multistorey building in Aisha Bakkar and appears to be another attempted assassination, with no prior warning from Israel.

Israel has continued its relentless bombardment of…

COLOMBO, March 11 (Reuters) – A Sri Lankan court has ordered that the bodies of 84 sailors killed in an attack on an Iranian warship off the island nation’s coast last week be handed over to the embassy of Iran, local media reported on Wednesday….

March 11 (Reuters) – Israeli strikes targeted an apartment building in central Beirut on Wednesday, Lebanese state media said, marking the second strike in the city in recent days.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military and no…

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Nashik, India – As Sanjay Nerkar returns from his office in Nashik, a small town in India’s Maharashtra state, he waits almost instinctively for a phone call – one he knows will never come.

For nearly a decade, while his son, Varad Nerker,…

Beneath the scorching sun of the Gulf, the rhythmic hum of millions of barrels of crude oil rushing through subsea pipelines vibrates against ancient coral rock.

Here, the celebrated Iranian writer Jalal Al-e-Ahmad once stood, gazing at the…

Kharg Island, a scrubby stretch of land in the northern Gulf, handles almost all of Iran’s crude exports and any attempt to seize it would mark a major escalation in the conflict, analysts say.

The US and Israel have so far treaded carefully…

A residential building in central Beirut was seen with flames erupting from a hole in its side after what appears to have been another Israeli strike.

Mohammed bin Abdulaziz al-Khulaifi also says Qatar and Oman cannot act as mediators while under attack.

By Parisa Hafezi, Alexander Cornwell and Phil Stewart

DUBAI/TEL AVIV/WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) – The U.S. and Israel traded air strikes with Iran’s military across the Middle East as the besieged Tehran government warned its state security…