Category: 3. Middle East

TEHRAN: Iran’s state-run Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs said on Saturday that the war with the United States and Israel had killed more than 3,400 people in the Islamic republic.
The announcement comes in the midst of a two-week…

PARIS: Attacks on water systems are uncommon in wartime, but Iran has threatened to target desalination plants after it said its own water and energy infrastructure had sustained damage in the ongoing war with Israel and the US.

What has Iran…

BEIJING: China has urged all parties involved in the Middle East conflict, particularly the US and Israel, to cease military operations, warning of a “vicious cycle” in a war that analysts say if prolonged, could undermine global growth and…

TEHRAN: Explosions rang out in Tehran early Monday morning, Iranian media reported, as Israel announced it launched a fresh wave of strikes.
“Explosion heard in Tehran,” local media Mehr posted on Telegram, while Fars news agency said…

The war in the Middle East has triggered a nightmare scenario for the global energy system, slashing so much supply that consumers around the world must both pay up big and lower consumption.
The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a…

LONDON: As Israeli military operations against Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon drive more than a million civilians from their homes, kill over 1,000 people in less than three weeks, and flatten entire residential blocks with no ceasefire…

CAIRO: An Israeli ‌airstrike on a police vehicle on Sunday killed three people in the middle of the Nuseirat camp ​in the central Gaza Strip, health officials said, hours after another person was killed in a strike on northern…

KUWAIT: Kuwait has submitted an official protest to the International Civil Aviation Organization over the Iranian attacks targeting the country’s airspace and facilities at Kuwait International Airport.

In a statement carried by Kuwait…

BEIRUT: Israel announced it was expanding its ground campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon ​after its military struck a main bridge linking Lebanon’s south to the rest of the country on Sunday.

Israeli forces were ordered to destroy…