Category: 2. Middle East

A US-Israeli attack hit an irradiation sterilization facility in central Iran, causing “significant damage,” Iranian authorities said Sunday, Anadolu reports.

Iran’s ISNA News Agency said the strike hit a gamma…

Iran has expanded its list of potential targets to include American economic assets, Iranian media reported Sunday, Anadolu reports.

The Fars News Agency, citing an unnamed Iranian official, said that Tehran had…

A Pakistani fisherman was killed after debris from an Israeli projectile intercepted by Iranian air defense systems struck his boat in Iranian waters, a Pakistani official said Sunday, Anadolu reports.

The incident…

Two people were killed and 12 others injured after a “military projectile” struck a residential site in central Saudi Arabia, authorities said Sunday, Anadolu reports.

In a statement, the Saudi Civil Defense said…

In central Beirut’s Ramada hotel, a few metres away from Lebanon’s landmark Pigeon Rocks, no one expected an Israeli strike to disturb the relative safety of this touristy area.

The rock formation, which comprises a natural arch and neighbouring…

Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in cities across the world Sunday to mark International Women’s Day and, in some cases, denounce the war in the Middle East.

From Rio in Brazil to cities across France, Spain and other European…

March 8 (Reuters) – The Iranian army said on Sunday that at least 104 people were killed and 32 were wounded in an attack by the U.S. on an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka’s coast last week.

A U.S. submarine sank the frigate Dena in the Indian Ocean…

March 8 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is weighing the option of deploying special forces on the ground to seize Iran’s near-bomb-grade uranium, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing three diplomatic officials briefed on the…

By Orhan Qereman

QAMISHLI, Syria March 8 (Reuters) – Kurdish residents of northeast Syria warned Iran’s Kurds against aligning with the U.S. to fight the Iranian government, citing their own experience in Syria in recent months as evidence their…

By Parisa Hafezi and Angus McDowall

DUBAI, March 8 (Reuters) – Iran’s next leader faces a massive external assault and growing internal anger, and while previous leaders relied on a hardcore of diehard ideologues in the population, it is far from…