Category: 2. Middle East

JERUSALEM, March 11 (Reuters) – Israel’s intelligence assessment is that Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, was lightly wounded in the Israeli-U.S. joint air war against Iran and that is why he has not been seen in public, a senior…

Exhausted Afghans cross the border from Iran in a sandstorm, leaving behind a country in the grip of war to return to a homeland that is battered by conflict and humanitarian crisis.

At the Islam Qala crossing point in Herat province, western…

BUCHAREST, March 11 (Reuters) – Romanian President Nicusor Dan has convened the EU and NATO nation’s top defence council on Wednesday to discuss whether to allow U.S. aircraft access to its military bases for support linked to its Tehran…

Three commercial ships took fire in the Gulf on Wednesday as Iran launched strikes against its oil-exporting neighbours, threatening shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and plunging the global energy economy into crisis.

Oil prices have surged and…

By Sarah Young

LONDON, March 11 (Reuters) – British police said they had banned a pro-Iranian march due to take place in London on Sunday, citing the possibility of “extreme tensions” with counter-protesters and the risk posed by Tehran during the…

A drone targeted a US diplomatic facility in Iraq on Tuesday in an attack believed to have been carried out by Iran-aligned armed groups, the Washington Post reported.

The newspaper, citing an Iraqi security official…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Tuesday evening that the government would suspend efforts to advance a bill exempting ultra-Orthodox Jews from military service…

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, warned on Tuesday of the consequences of the continued closure of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for the 11th consecutive day and the prevention of worshippers from performing…

SEOUL, March 11 (Reuters) – South Korea’s senior presidential secretary for AI, Ha Jung-woo, said on Wednesday that artificial intelligence cooperation with the United Arab Emirates could accelerate after the Middle East conflict ends, given the…

BEIRUT, March 11 (Reuters) – An Israeli strike hit an apartment block in central Beirut on Wednesday, Lebanon’s state news agency reported, further widening Israeli attacks in the capital beyond the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs where…