Category: 2. Middle East

A surge in global oil prices triggered by the war involving the United States, Israel and Iran is raising alarms about a fresh inflation shock that could ripple through the global economy while hitting vulnerable markets across the Middle East…

KYIV, March 9 (Reuters) – Ukraine is ready for new U.S.-backed peace talks “at any moment”, but its partners’ attention is currently focused on the Iran conflict, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday, adding that the U.S. had asked to…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that 11 countries had tapped Kyiv for help in how to counter Iranian drones being fired by Tehran in retaliation for US-Israeli strikes.

Ukraine has to fend off nightly barrages of…

Ships anchored in the Gulf or transiting the Strait of Hormuz are changing their tracking data to boast links to China in an attempt to evade Iranian attacks, according to data from shipping tracker Marine Traffic analysed by AFP.

Iran has…

For Muslims across the world, Ramadan is synonymous with prayer, spirituality and joyful nighttime gatherings, but across much of the Middle East, the Iran war means evenings no longer have anything festive about them.

The celebrations that…

Russia’s international humanitarian cooperation agency said on Monday that Israel attacked the partner Russian House in the Lebanese city of Nabatieh, calling it an “unprovoked act of aggression,” Anadolu…

NATO said it shot down a second ballistic missile from Iran in Turkish airspace on Monday, prompting a stern warning from Turkey to Tehran, which told its neighbour not to take “provocative steps”.

It was the second such incident in the skies over…

WASHINGTON, March 9 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Monday that he was “nowhere near” deciding whether to send U.S. troops into Iran to secure the stockpile of highly enriched uranium there.

“We haven’t made any decision on that….

WASHINGTON, March 9 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is considering whether to designate Afghanistan as a state sponsor of wrongful detention and could act as soon as Monday, according to a source familiar with the matter.

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