Category: 2. Middle East

March 4 (Reuters) – A Pakistani man accused of planning to kill President Donald Trump told jurors on Wednesday that he did not willingly work with Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps to devise the plot, media said.

The Justice…

By Ismail Shakil

March 4 (Reuters) – The impact of the Iran conflict on energy markets will be temporary and a “small price” to pay for U.S. military goals, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Fox News on Wednesday.

U.S. and Israeli strikes on…

LOS ANGELES, March 4 (Reuters) – The Pentagon on Wednesday identified two more soldiers who were killed in the war against Iran.

The two Army Reserve soldiers died on Sunday in a drone attack on a U.S. military facility in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait…

Cancelled flights, postponed trips and a great deal of uncertainty: the war in the Middle East is casting a long shadow over the tourism outlook for a region that has become a prized destination for travellers worldwide.

“My last group of tourists…

By Ryan Patrick Jones

March 4 (Reuters) – The Canadian government is working to repatriate citizens who are stranded in the Middle East by organizing seats on commercial flights, contracting charter flights and offering ground transportation…

Seeking to bring down Iran’s Islamic republic, the United States and Israel could see a path by exploiting ethnic tensions, a strategy attractive to military planners but fraught with long-term risks.

Just over half of Iran’s population is…

March 4 (Reuters) – An Iranian official said the country had not sent any messages to the United States, in response to an Axios report, Iran’s Tasnim news agency said early on Thursday.

“No message has been sent from Iran to the US, nor will any…

WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) – A majority of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday backed President Donald Trump’s military campaign against Iran, voting to block a bipartisan resolution aiming to stop the air war and require that any hostilities against…

SYDNEY, March 5 (Reuters) – Australia said three more commercial flights were scheduled to depart the United Arab Emirates on Thursday as the first group of Australians stranded in the Middle East returned home overnight following the outbreak of…

At least 926 people have been killed in joint attacks by the US and Israel on Iran since Feb. 28, the Iranian Health Ministry announced Wednesday, Anadolu reports.

Ministry spokesperson Hossein Kermanpour said 6,186…