Category: 2. Middle East

US President Donald Trump threatened to “massively blow up” a vast Iranian gas field unless Tehran stops striking Qatari energy facilities, which sustained extensive damage Thursday.

Crude oil prices surged five percent as the latest strikes fed…

Iranian missile attacks have killed three Palestinian women in the occupied West Bank and a foreign worker in central Israel, medics said Thursday.

Falling shrapnel struck a hair salon in the West Bank town of Beit Awa near Hebron late Wednesday,…

By Andrew Mills and Timour Azhari

DOHA/RIYADH, March 19 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said an angry Israel “violently lashed out” and attacked Iran’s major gas field, a significant escalation in the U.S.-Israeli war, but ruled out…

Qatar’s main gas facility has suffered extensive damage after several rounds of Iranian strikes, causing new energy supply fears as the Middle East war grinds on.

Here is a look at some of the key energy facilities that have been targeted in the…

By Kanishka Singh

WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said late on Wednesday the attack on Iran’s South Pars gas field was carried out by Israel, and the U.S. and Qatar were not involved in it.

Trump also said Israel would…

March 19 (Reuters) – The Iranian national team are continuing to prepare for the World Cup finals and have no intention of pulling out of the tournament even if they will not travel to the United States, soccer chief Mehdi Taj said on Wednesday….

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi risks the wrath of US President Donald Trump at the White House Thursday after rebuffing his call to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

The first female premier in Japan’s history, conservative Takaichi has…

By Yomna Ehab and Jaidaa Taha

March 18 (Reuters) – Qatar’s state oil giant QatarEnergy said on Wednesday that Iranian missile attacks on Ras Laffan, the site of the country’s core LNG processing operations, caused “extensive damage”, while the UAE…

Iran targeted energy facilities across the Gulf and threatened further destructive attacks after a key gas field was hit, raising fears Thursday of a wider assault on fuel supplies that could jolt already rattled global markets.

The warning came…

By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali, Erin Banco and Gram Slattery

WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration is considering deploying thousands of U.S. troops to reinforce its operation in the Middle East, as the U.S….