Category: 3. Middle East

By Emma Farge

GENEVA, March 6 (Reuters) – The World Health Organization said on Friday that medical supplies in Gaza were running critically low despite Israel’s reopening of a key crossing this week.

Supplies of some items such as gauze and…

Drone video showed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem empty at the start of the third Friday in Ramadan, after Israeli authorities restricted access to holy sites.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed that the US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln withdrew from waters near the Strait of Hormuz after what it described as an encounter with Iranian naval…

Hezbollah has deployed an elite unit of its fighters to southern Lebanon to confront Israeli forces advancing in the border region, according to three Lebanese sources.

The sources said Hezbollah’s Radwan Unit, one…

By Michele Kambas

NICOSIA, March 6 (Reuters) – A drone strike this week on a British air base in Cyprus has renewed calls for an end to British military presence on the Mediterranean island as many fear being dragged into the wider Iran…

Kyiv, Ukraine – Experts estimate that Iran has tens of thousands of Shahed drones.

Recently released footage from Iranian media appears to show vast supplies stored in underground production facilities, signalling that Iran could deploy the…

Worshippers wave Iranian flags and chant slogans against the US and Israel, as they gather to pray amid attacks and Ramadan.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Thursday that Tehran is prepared for any military escalation, including a possible ground invasion, warning that such a move would have catastrophic consequences for its…

By Emily Rose

JERUSALEM, March 6 (Reuters) – Israeli attacks against Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah group will likely continue after its joint air war with the U.S. against Iran ends, a source briefed on Israel’s military strategy told…

By Uditha Jayasinghe

GALLE, Sri Lanka, March 6 (Reuters) – Sri Lankan authorities said on Friday they were escorting a second Iranian naval vessel to harbour and moving 208 of its crew to a camp, two days after a U.S. submarine sank an Iranian…