Category: 2. Middle East

March 9 (Reuters) – Ukraine sent interceptor drones and a team of drone experts to protect U.S. military bases in Jordan, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in an interview with The New York Times published on Monday.

The U.S. made the request for…

DHAKA, March 9 (Reuters) – Bangladesh will close all universities from Monday, bringing forward the Eid al-Fitr holidays as part of emergency measures to conserve electricity and fuel amid a worsening energy crisis linked to the conflict in the…

Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of late Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei who has been appointed as the new head of the Islamic republic, is a discreet figure who offers continuity of his father’s hardline leadership.

The 56-year-old had no official…

Hezbollah said on Monday it was engaging Israeli forces who landed in eastern Lebanon by helicopter across the Syrian border, the second such operation since the outbreak of the latest conflict with Israel.

Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East…

Australia must protect the visiting Iranian women’s football team, the son of the nation’s late shah urged Monday, warning their refusal to sing the national anthem before a match could have “dire consequences”.

Iranian players refused to sing…

WASHINGTON, March 8 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that when to end the war with Iran will be a “mutual” decision made with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Speaking by phone with The Times of Israel, Trump said…

France will host a video meeting of G7 finance ministers on the Middle East crisis on Monday, as the war fuels fears for the global economy.

The French finance ministry said in a statement the meeting at 1:30 pm (1230 GMT) would “review the…

The satellite image posted by an Iranian news outlet looked real: a devastated US base in Qatar. But it was an AI-generated fake, underscoring the accelerating threat of tech-enabled disinformation during wartime.

The rise of generative AI has…

STOCKHOLM, March 9 (Reuters) – Europe became the world’s biggest arms importer over the last five years as governments reacted to Russia’s threat and waning confidence in U.S. security commitments, data from the Stockholm International Peace…

SYDNEY, March 9 (Reuters) – Australia has asked the family members and dependants of diplomatic officials in the United Arab Emirates to leave the country, following an escalation in the conflict in the Middle East as several Gulf cities came…