Category: 3. Middle East

Tehran’s retaliatory attacks on US assets in the Gulf region continue for a third day as fears of a prolonged conflict rise.

The comments come after US media reported a diplomatic push after the killing of Iran’s supreme leader.

The killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in a United States-Israeli air campaign has sent shockwaves through the Middle East, decapitating the leadership of the “axis of resistance” at its most critical moment.

For decades, this…

NICOSIA, March 2 (Reuters) – Britain’s Royal Air Force base Akrotiri in Cyprus was hit by a suspected drone strike overnight, causing limited damage and no casualties, Cypriot authorities and the UK’s Ministry of Defence said.

A Cyprus government…

Doha, Qatar— When Iranian missiles slammed into Doha, Dubai and Manama over the weekend, they shattered more than glass and concrete – they also were a blow to the Gulf states’ carefully cultivated image as oases of stability, insulated…

March 2 (Reuters) – Kuwait intercepted hostile drones on Monday, the third consecutive day of Iranian retaliatory strikes on neighbouring Gulf states in response to U.S. and Israeli attacks on the Islamic Republic.

No injuries were reported after…

By Phil Stewart and Humeyra Pamuk

WASHINGTON, March 1 (Reuters) – Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces…

By Rami Ayyub, Alexander Cornwell, Nayera Abdallah, Maha El Dahan and Laila Bassam

JERUSALEM/TEL AVIV/DUBAI/BEIRUT, March 2 (Reuters) – Israel launched new air strikes targeting Tehran and expanded its military campaign to include attacks on…

Hunkered down at his luxury Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, US President Donald Trump kept an unusually low profile after announcing the start of huge military strikes on Iran.

Trump eschewed the grand Oval Office addresses to the nation favored by…

Tens of thousands of Lebanese civilians are leaving areas in Beirut following Israeli strikes and forced displacement orders. Earlier Hezbollah launched a retaliatory attack on Israel. Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr is amid the heavy traffic.