Category: 3. Middle East

Arrests come days after force announced U-turn, saying that despite High Court ruling, ‘terror’ ban remains in place.

London’s Metropolitan Police have arrested 18 supporters of Palestine Action, days after…

By Nathan Layne

GRAPEVINE, Texas, March 28 (Reuters) – Iranian opposition figure Reza Pahlavi on Saturday warned that negotiating for peace with the current leaders of Iran would only push the threat to Americans down the road, and said he would…

Pakistan’s prime minister said he had a “detailed” call with Iran’s president on Saturday, as foreign ministers from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey gathered in Islamabad for talks on the war in the Middle East.

The diplomats were due to attend…

An Israeli strike killed three journalists Saturday in south Lebanon, including a well-known reporter for Hezbollah’s Al Manar network, with Lebanese authorities denouncing the attack as a “war crime”.

The Israeli military confirmed killing Al…

Israeli social media posts show a strike in the Israeli city of Eilat. Smoke was seen rising above the city’s skyline as the missile struck. It came hours after Yemen’s Houthis said they had launched attacks in the area, but it’s…

A US amphibious assault vessel carrying thousands of expeditionary forces has arrived in the Middle East, US Central Command said Saturday, Anadolu reports.

“US Sailors and Marines aboard USS Tripoli (LHA 7) arrived…

The possibility of Iran’s withdrawal from the Nuclear Non‑Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is under discussion in Tehran, Iranian media reported on Saturday, Anadolu reports.

Relevant government bodies, including…

By Menna AlaaElDin, Nayera Abdallah and Humeyra Pamuk

CAIRO/DUBAI, March 28 (Reuters) – Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis launched missiles at Israel on Saturday, their first such attack since the start of the Iran war, heightening the risk that a…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that his country had “undoubtedly changed the geopolitical situation” in the Middle East with a series of decade-long defence agreements with Gulf states being hit with Iranian drones and…

Hundreds gathered in Tel Aviv and some other Israeli cities on Saturday to protest the war in the Middle East, in unauthorised demonstrations that security forces sought to disperse.

Weekly protests against the war launched by Israel and the…