Category: 2. Middle East

By Tuvan Gumrukcu

ANKARA, March 9 (Reuters) – Turkey said on Monday that NATO air defences shot down a second Iranian ballistic missile that had entered its airspace and warned that it would move against any such threats, which increasingly pose a…

US President Donald Trump is under pressure to curb oil prices sent skyrocketing by the war with Iran, but has only limited tools to fix a problem that is shaking the world economy and is politically toxic at home.

Trump has insisted it will be…

Here are the latest economic events in the Middle East war on Monday:

– Markets –

– Oil prices shot around 30 percent higher in Asian trading. The main international oil contract, Brent crude, is currently up roughly 41 percent from just before…

By Forrest Crellin

PARIS, March 9 (Reuters) – Almost half of Iran’s uranium enriched to up to 60% purity, a short step from weapons-grade, was stored in a tunnel complex at Isfahan and is probably still there, U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael…

Four years after world sport rushed to ban Russia for invading Ukraine, the leading governing bodies are reacting guardedly to the US-led attack on Iran, raising accusations of double standards.

Both wars broke out immediately after the end of a…

US President Donald Trump expressed displeasure Monday over Iran’s appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei as its new supreme leader, calling it “a big mistake,” Anadolu reports.

“I don’t know if it’s going to…

By Sam Tabahriti and Sarah Young

LONDON, March 9 (Reuters) – Britain wants major economies to agree to release emergency oil reserves as the escalating Iranian crisis sends energy prices soaring and increases the risk of higher inflation, finance…

France and its allies are preparing a “defensive” mission to reopen the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz, President Emmanuel Macron said Monday as the Middle East war entered its second week.

The French leader landed by helicopter on the…