Category: 3. Middle East

GALLE, Sri Lanka, March 5 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka is trying to “safeguard lives” on another Iranian ship off its coast, the country’s cabinet spokesperson said on Thursday, adding that the vessel was in the economic zone beyond the South Asian…

Former Kathmandu mayor Balendra Shah, a 35-year-old rapper-turned-politician, casts his vote as Nepal holds general elections six months after youth-led anti-corruption protests toppled the government.

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On the sixth day of US-Israeli offensive against Iran, the conflict is escalating while regional tensions are rising.

Israeli strikes have hit the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, state-run media have said, as Israel’s deadline for Iranian officials to leave Lebanon expired, as it bombards the south and…

Here are the latest main events related to the war in the Middle East:

– Fresh Israeli strikes across Tehran –

Israel’s military said in a statement Thursday it had “just begun a large-scale wave of strikes against infrastructure of the Iranian…

Thousands of Chinese officials have gathered in Beijing for the opening session of the National People’s Congress (NPC), where delegates are approving the country’s economic and political roadmap for the…

Israel pounded Tehran with fresh strikes and Iran targeted Kurdish guerrilla groups in Iraq on Thursday as a spiralling war engulfed the Middle East.

A conflict ignited Saturday with US-Israeli attacks that killed Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah…

Fresh blasts were reported in Iran’s capital on Thursday as Tehran said it had targeted Kurdish groups in Iraq and warned “separatist groups” against action in the widening war.

The conflict that began Saturday with US-Israeli strikes that killed…

Turkiye’s Defence Ministry had said a ⁠ballistic missile ​fired from ⁠Iran towards Turkish airspace was destroyed ⁠by NATO air and missile defence systems over ‌the eastern Mediterranean.

By Allison Lampert, Lisa Baertlein and Julie Zhu

March 5 (Reuters) – Shipments ranging from fresh produce to airplane parts are in limbo as an escalating Middle East conflict reduces the world’s air cargo capacity by more than one-fifth and pushes…