Category: 3. Middle East

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By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali, Jonathan Landay and Erin Banco

WASHINGTON, March 27 (Reuters) – The United States can only determine with certainty that it has destroyed…

As the United States-Israeli war on Iran enters its fourth week this weekend, pressure on oil and gas markets continues to mount due to severe disruption to shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz as well as attacks on and around key energy…

Israeli occupiers attacked a Bedouin community south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Friday, assaulting residents and stealing livestock, Anadolu reports.

Sources said occupiers targeted the Wadi Al-Awar area,…

The meeting held in Washington, DC reviewed the ‘close strategic cooperation’ between Doha and Washington, Qatar’s foreign ministry said.

Qatar’s prime minister has held talks with senior US officials in…

‘I’m afraid we are in a situation of a stalemate that is more likely to result in further escalation than in any kind of settlement.’
Ali Vaez, director of the Iran Project at the International Crisis Group, says the US and Iran…

By Pesha Magid

JERUSALEM, March 27 (Reuters) – Some are the size of small trucks, and they’ve come crashing to the ground almost daily for a month — littering school yards, roadsides and hilltops with visceral remnants of a Middle East at war….

The Pentagon is considering sending up to 10,000 additional US ground troops to the Middle East, according to Defence Department officials cited by the Wall Street Journal, in a move that would hand President Donald…

By John Irish

VAUX-DE-CERNAY, France, March 27 (Reuters) – Ukraine is close to clinching several security agreements — including with the UAE and Qatar — to counter Iranian attacks, its foreign minister said on Friday, adding that he saw scope…

Kyiv, which has built expertise on how to counter drones, seals pact amid Iran war.

Ukraine says it has signed a defence agreement with Saudi Arabia as Gulf countries continue to come under Iranian attack amid…

France’s sports minister has called the International Olympic Committee’s decision to introduce genetic testing for women’s ⁠events a “step backwards”, warning it raises major ethical, legal and scientific concerns, while US President…