Category: 2. Middle East

BEIJING, March 4 (Reuters) – China is willing to work with the United States to promote communication on all levels, while upholding its “red lines” and principles, Lou Qinjian, a spokesperson for its parliament, said on Wednesday.

The National…

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SINGAPORE, March 4 (Reuters) – An oil tanker sailed through the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, heading to a United Arab Emirates port to load crude in a rare voyage since the Iran war…

By Parisa Hafezi and Alexander Cornwell

DUBAI/TEL AVIV, March 4 (Reuters) – The U.S. assault on Iran was ahead of schedule, said the top American commander for the Middle East, as Israel and the U.S. targeted sites deep inside the country, and…

By Erin Banco, Humeyra Pamuk and Jonathan Landay

WASHINGTON, March 3 (Reuters) – Iranian Kurdish militias have consulted with the United States in recent days about whether, and how, to attack Iran’s security forces in the western part of the…

Iran’s slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will be buried in the holy city of Mashhad, the Fars news agency said Tuesday.

Khamenei, who led the country for 36 years, was killed at 86 during a wave of US-Israeli attacks on Saturday.

He was…

March 4 (Reuters) – Several people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a four-storey residential building in the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek, the state news agency NNA reported early on Wednesday.

Rescue teams were working to pull families…

From menstruation mishaps to a meditation on old age, and the challenges faced by Arab-Israelis in the aftermath of the Hamas attacks, one Oscars category is nothing if not varied.

“The live action short category, it’s particularly diverse in its…

By Mike Stone

WASHINGTON, March 3 (Reuters) – The Trump administration plans to meet with executives from the biggest U.S. defense contractors at the White House on Friday to discuss accelerating weapons production, as the Pentagon works to…

President Donald Trump and his team scrambled Tuesday to reclaim the narrative on why he decided to attack Iran, after his top diplomat suggested the US struck only after learning of an imminent Israeli strike.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio…