Category: 3. Middle East

The US defense secretary on Monday declined to rule out putting troops on the ground in Iran and indicated the war launched over the weekend could go on for as long as six weeks.

US forces began carrying out sweeping strikes on Iran Saturday in…

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday operation against Iran is not intended to topple the country’s leadership, even as he acknowledged the sweeping impact of the operation, Anadolu reports.

“This is not…

WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) – It will take time to achieve U.S. military objectives in Iran and additional U.S. casualties areexpected, U.S. General Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Monday.

The U.S.-Israeli air war…

Javed Ali, associate professor at the University of Michigan, says the Texas shooting appears to be a lone-offender case, not an operation directed by Iran or Hezbollah, and warns that anger over US-Israel attacks on Iran may be fuelling…

Under relentless Israeli-US attack, Iran has bombarded US assets in the Gulf, but so far has not touched Turkey which would be a “high-cost strategic gamble” that could go disastrously wrong, analysts said.

Iran had long warned that if Washington…

Israel relocated its official government aircraft to Germany for security reasons over the weekend, Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s spokesman confirmed Monday, Anadolu reports.

Stefan Kornelius, speaking at a Berlin…

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Pesha Magid

CAIRO/JERUSALEM, March 2 (Reuters) – Gaza is rapidly running out of its limited fuel supply and stocks of food staples may become tight, officials say, after Israel blocked the entry of fuel and goods into the…

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Monday his government has banned Hezbollah’s military and security activities and limited the group’s role to political work, ordering the army to enforce a plan to…

New airstrikes hit Iran’s capital Tehran on Monday, with successive blasts heard across the city.

An Anadolu correspondent reported that the explosions were concentrated in eastern and southern Tehran.

Plumes of…

Qatar’s state-run energy firm says it has halted liquefied natural gas production after Iranian attacks, sending gas prices soaring in Europe, as Saudi Arabia announced it was temporarily shutting down some…