Category: 2. Middle East

By Mubasher Bukhari and Saad Sayeed

LAHORE, March 5 (Reuters) – Pakistan’s efforts to preserve close ties with President Donald Trump are being put to the test after protesters stormed the U.S. consulate in Karachi last week and poured onto…

Africa hosts military bases within reach of Iranian missiles and is feeling the impact of rising oil prices and threats to shipping, as the continent again suffers from events largely beyond its control.

The continent is “structurally exposed” to…

GALLE, Sri Lanka, March 5 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka is trying to “safeguard lives” on another Iranian ship off its coast, the country’s cabinet spokesperson said on Thursday, adding that the vessel was in the economic zone beyond the South Asian…

Here are the latest main events related to the war in the Middle East:

– Fresh Israeli strikes across Tehran –

Israel’s military said in a statement Thursday it had “just begun a large-scale wave of strikes against infrastructure of the Iranian…

Israel pounded Tehran with fresh strikes and Iran targeted Kurdish guerilla groups in Iraq on Thursday as a spiralling war in the Middle East engulfed the entire region.

A conflict ignited Saturday with US-Israeli attacks that killed Iran’s…

Israel on Thursday launched a fresh wave of strikes on Iran, which stepped up its attacks on Gulf nations Qatar and Bahrain, as the Middle East war spread throughout the region and beyond.

AFP reporters in Tehran and Doha heard huge explosions…

Fresh blasts were reported in Iran’s capital on Thursday as Tehran said it had targeted Kurdish groups in Iraq and warned “separatist groups” against action in the widening war.

The conflict that began Saturday with US-Israeli strikes that killed…

By Allison Lampert, Lisa Baertlein and Julie Zhu

March 5 (Reuters) – Shipments ranging from fresh produce to airplane parts are in limbo as an escalating Middle East conflict reduces the world’s air cargo capacity by more than one-fifth and pushes…

By Parisa Hafezi, Pesha Magid and Tuvan Gumrukcu

DUBAI/JERUSALEM/ANKARA, March 5 (Reuters) – Iran launched a wave of missiles at Israel early on Thursday, sending millions of residents into bomb shelters as the U.S.-Israel war with Iran entered…

By Uditha Jayasinghe

GALLE, Sri Lanka, March 5 (Reuters) – Iranian sailors who survived a U.S. submarine strike in the Indian Ocean were recovering at a hospital in the Sri Lankan port city of Galle, authorities said on Thursday, a day after at…