Category: 3. Middle East

Washington, DC – United States President Donald Trump has said the plan for the Iran war initially “projected four to five weeks”, adding the US military has the “capability to go far longer than that”.

Speaking on Monday from the White…

By Lucy Craymer and Justyna Pawlak

DUBAI/DOHA, March 2 (Reuters) – In the lobby of a tired hotel near Doha airport, stranded travellers wear identical fake Adidas T-shirts bought from a nearby store and swap tips on where to buy underwear.

“It’s…

The wife of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei died Monday of wounds sustained in a US-Israeli attack, Iranian media reported, Anadolu reports.

Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh, 79, had been in a coma…

QatarEnergy has suspended liquefied natural gas (LNG) production following a drone attack, straining the global LNG market.

On Monday, Iranian drones struck two sites, according to Qatar’s Ministry of…

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Monday for Israel to re-open Gaza border crossings it closed after launching the war against Iran along with the United States.

Among the crossings shut down on Saturday as a security measure is the…

US President Donald Trump outlined the objectives of the US-Israeli attack on Iran, defending the military offensive as the last chance to eliminate the threat posed by Iran’s “sick and sinister regime”.

By Federico Maccioni and Tim Hepher

DUBAI/PARIS, March 2 (Reuters) – Escalating conflict in the Middle East has laid bare how heavily global air travel relies on a handful of hubs led by Dubai, the world’s busiest international airport, after…

President Macron’s ‘advanced deterrence’ will be a nuclear-security relationship with key allies distinct from NATO arrangements.

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will increase…

A day before the US attacked Iran, it had blacklisted the AI company Anthropic. Turns out, it reportedly used Anthropic’s technology anyway in its military operation in Iran.

Al Jazeera’s Linh Nguyen explains the dispute between the Pentagon…