Category: 2. Middle East

By Steve Holland, Jarrett Renshaw, Nandita Bose and Bo Erickson

WASHINGTON, March 5 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was not concerned about rising U.S. gas prices driven by the widening Iran conflict, telling Reuters in an…

By Julie Zhu

HONG KONG, March 6 (Reuters) – Emirates and Etihad Airways were resuming limited flight schedules to key global cities from their United Arab Emirates hubs on Friday, though the ongoing threat of missile fire piled pressure on…

By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali

March 5 (Reuters) – U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls’ school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet…

March 6 (Reuters) – Lebanon’s Hezbollah warned Israeli residents to evacuate towns within 5 km (3.11 miles) of the border between the countries in a message posted on its Telegram channel in Hebrew early on Friday.

Hezbollah’s message came less…

(Fixes typo in headline)

SYDNEY, March 6 (Reuters) – Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday that three Australian defence personnel were on board a United States submarine that sank an Iranian warship with a torpedo in the Indian Ocean,…

The latest Iranian missile barrage sparked a wave of explosions across Tel Aviv as firefighters worked to contain a blaze at a residential building near Israel’s commercial hub on Friday.

The blasts came after Israel expanded its campaign against…

TAMPA, Florida — The next phase of the US bombing campaign in Iran will go beyond destroying Iran’s ballistic missile stockpiles and launchers to destroying its weapons manufacturing abilities, top Pentagon officials said Thursday.

“The…

TAMPA, Florida, March 5 (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Thursday the United States was not expanding its military objectives in Iran, after President Donald Trump told Reuters that the United States must be involved in…

WASHINGTON, March 5 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Thursday said Tehran was reaching out to the United States about making a deal amid U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, adding that further action to reduce pressure on oil was…

When the United States fought the 1991 Gulf War, president George H.W. Bush boasted of building a broad coalition unseen in decades. When his son attacked Iraq in 2003, he faced wide criticism but secured several steadfast US allies.

Now, a…