Category: 2. Middle East

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…

Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on Wednesday ordered an increase in military readiness to protect the country’s airspace amid escalating regional tensions, Anadolu reports.

The order came during an…

March 4 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he discussed the Middle East conflict on Wednesday with the king of Bahrain and the crown prince of Kuwait.

Zelenskiy also said that his administration was in daily contact with the…

President Donald Trump on Wednesday rated the US performance in the war with Iran as a 15 on a scale of 10, saying the Islamic republic’s leaders were rapidly being killed, and vowing to push on.

Trump’s comments came as the conflict expanded on…