Category: 3. Middle East

MOSCOW, March 2 (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Monday that Russia was in constant contact with the Iranian leadership about what it called the “outright aggression” against Tehran and was deeply disappointed by how events had unfolded.

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Iranian authorities announced on Wednesday that former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had been killed in a missile strike carried out by Israel and the United States.

According to Iranian reports, Ahmadinejad was…

Video shows the moment a military jet crashed in Kuwait, as the crew ejected from the flaming plane. Residents who rushed to the scene of the crash said the aircraft and crew were American, the country’s defence ministry confirmed it…

Videos show smoke rising from a refinery operated by Saudi Aramco after a fire broke out, which Saudi officials say was caused by debris from an intercepted Iranian missile. Oil prices have surged sharply amid the disruption and the…

By Katya Golubkova, Yuka Obayashi and Nidhi Verma

TOKYO/NEW DELHI, March 2 (Reuters) – The widening Iranian conflict is disrupting oil flows to several Asian countries as vessels are bottled up within the Middle East Gulf and crude and transport…

Sheikh Ikrama Sabri, preacher of Al-Aqsa Mosque and head of the Supreme Islamic Council in Jerusalem, has condemned the Israeli occupation authorities’ decision to close the mosque, stating that there is “no…

The death toll from a bombing that struck a girls’ primary school in the southern Iranian city of Minab has risen to 160 students, with a further 95 injured, according to Iran’s Tasnim news agency citing the…

By Heejin Kim and Sebin Choi

SEOUL, March 2 (Reuters) – U.S. and Israeli military strikes on Iran will reinforce the nuclear ambitions of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, say experts and former officials, as attention focuses on whether he might…

EXPLAINER

A day after the Iranian supreme leader’s killing was confirmed, attacks have been reported in Dubai, Cyprus and across the region.