Category: 3. Middle East

JERUSALEM, March 3 (Reuters) – Israel’s military on Tuesday reported strikes in the Tel Aviv area of Israel from Iranian missiles.

“Search and rescue forces, together with numerous emergency teams, are currently operating at the impact sites in…

Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reports from the site of an Israeli attack in Beirut’s southern suburbs, which Israel says targeted a ‘Hezbollah area’. Israeli forces have taken more land inside Lebanon, expanding a de facto buffer zone…

WASHINGTON, March 3 (Reuters) – Donald Trump said the U.S. military has enough stockpiled weapons to fight wars “forever”, as the Republican president and his administration continued their push to justify a broad, open-ended war on Iran with…

Mansoureh Khojasti Bagherzadeh, the wife of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has died from wounds sustained in a reported US-Israeli airstrike on Tehran, according to Iran’s Tasnim news agency.

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Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says there is currently no communication between Doha and Tehran.

Iran is prepared for a prolonged conflict and will ensure its adversaries “regret their miscalculations”, Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said on Monday.

In a statement…

Jeffrey Feltman, former US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, questions the legal basis and endgame of the US-Israel war on Iran, saying he does not believe Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States that would justify…

Global stock markets dived, energy prices surged and the dollar gained Tuesday as the Iran war drove volatility across global financial markets and roiled companies worldwide.

World oil prices soared more than eight percent and European natural…

Pakistani nationals hauled suitcases across the border from neighbouring Iran, describing missiles being launched and travel chaos as they scrambled to leave the country that the United States and Israel hit with strikes over the weekend.

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Insurance companies are cancelling war risk coverage for vessels in the Middle East Gulf as the widening United States/Israel-Iran conflict disrupts shipping, leaving tankers damaged or stranded and at least two people dead.

The conflict…