Category: 3. Middle East

‘What is needed now in the region more than anything, is a way out.’ The UN Secretary-General is urging a cessation of hostilities and de-escalation amidst the ongoing US and Israeli military offensive against Iran.

US forces have shot down hundreds of Iranian ballistic missiles in recent days, raising questions about how long American air defense interceptor stocks will last in a war that could continue for weeks or more.

Iran responded to the massive…

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has tried to justify the coordinated attacks with Israel on Iran since Saturday as driven by self-defence, adding that the US objective is not to overthrow the government but wipe out Iran’s ballistic…

The latest advisory includes Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, according to a State Department official.

By Kanishka Singh

WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) – Secretary of State Marco Rubio said U.S. forces “would not deliberately target a school” after Iranian state media reported over 160 were killed in a strike on a girls’ school on the first day of…

Energy prices surged Monday as the war in the Middle East led to outages of key energy production operations and a critical waterway was essentially emptied of traffic.

European natural gas prices finished the day up more than 39 percent after…

Iran strikes energy infrastructure across the Gulf as IRGC announces closure of Strait of Hormuz.

A witness says the US and Israel bombed civilians at Tehran’s Ferdowsi Square, as they rushed to help survivors from another bombing only minutes before.

By Jana Winter

WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) – Iran and its proxies could target the U.S. with attacks in response to the Saturday killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei by Israeli and U.S. strikes, according to a U.S. intelligence…