Category: 2. Middle East

US President Donald Trump has built a potential off-ramp by suggesting the Iran war could end soon, but the world is still guessing about whether he will take it — and whether Tehran will let him.

With surging oil prices threatening the global…

By Patricia Zengerle

WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate confirmed General Joshua Rudd on Tuesday to lead the National Security Agency and the nation’s Cyber Command, filling a position that had been vacant since President Donald…

By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali

WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) – As many as 150 U.S. troops have been wounded so far in the war with Iran, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.

The figure has not been previously reported and…

WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright on Tuesday deleted a post on X in which had said the U.S. Navy successfully escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz “to ensure oil remains flowing to global…

A post by US Energy Secretary Chris Wright saying that the US Navy had escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz was deleted on Tuesday, minutes after his account had posted it.

Markets have been roiled by the US-Israel war on Iran, and…

The United States has not escorted any oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz, the White House said Tuesday, after the energy secretary’s social media account posted and deleted a claim that it did so.

The shift in narrative caused markets to…

The head of the Iranian Football Federation on Tuesday cast further doubt on his country’s participation in this summer’s World Cup, saying women playing in the Asian Cup in Australia had been coerced into defecting.

“If the World Cup is like…

A UK warship Tuesday left port in southern England en route to the eastern Mediterranean to “bolster British defences in the region” amid the US-Israeli war with Iran, the Royal Navy said.

The HMS Dragon’s departure from its base in Portsmouth…

By Alexander Villegas and Fabian Cambero

SANTIAGO, March 10 (Reuters) – Elected on promises of economic growth, deregulation and public spending cuts, local markets rallied after Chile elected far-right Jose Antonio Kast as president in December,…

As thumping techno music reverberated around a basement in downtown Tel Aviv, some 200 Israeli twentysomethings danced through the night despite the war with Iran upending life above.

While missile alerts and piercing sirens have become a regular…