Category: 3. Middle East

White House memo says Trump has instructed DHS to pay federal airport workers as long lines snarl travel.

Republican leaders in the United States House of Representatives have shot down a bill passed by the…

Smoke was seen rising from Iran’s Arak heavy-water plant following Israeli air strikes on infrastructure linked to the production of civilian nuclear energy and uranium enrichment. Explosions were also reported in Isfahan, which is home…

Drone footage has revealed the extent of damage in Arad days after an Iranian missile attack that injured at least 116 people.

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Smoke billowed over the skyline of southern Beirut following airstrikes as Israel continued to escalate its war on Hezbollah nearly four weeks into the US-Israeli war on Iran. The Israeli military said it was targeting Hezbollah…

WASHINGTON, March 27 (Reuters) – Elon Musk joined a phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday about the war in Iran, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing two U.S. officials.

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BEIRUT, March 27 (Reuters) – More than 400 fighters fromHezbollah have been killed since the Lebanese armed group launched the opening salvoes of a new war with Israel on March 2, two sources familiar with Hezbollah’s count told Reuters.

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March 27 (Reuters) – The United Nations said on Friday it was setting up a task force to design a mechanism to keep trade flowing through the Strait of Hormuz, warning that disruptions caused by the Iran war risked greater food shortages and…

By Rachel More and James Mackenzie

BERLIN, March 27 (Reuters) – Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday expressed scepticism that the United States and Israel had a clear strategy to end the war in Iran but he said Germany would in principle be ready…

By Catherine Cartier and Emilie Madi

BEIRUT, March 27 (Reuters) – When Israeli strikes rained down on southern Lebanon in early March, Hawraa Houmani, 29 years old and almost nine months pregnant, fled her village near Nabatieh to a shelter in a…