Category: 2. Middle East

By Pesha Magid

EILON, Israel, March 18 (Reuters) – Israel has more than doubled the number of troops along its border with Lebanon since March 1 and they are searching homes in southern Lebanese villages that the military has ordered evacuated, a…

By Andreas Rinke, Ludwig Burger and John Irish

BERLIN/PARIS, March 18 (Reuters) – For a self-described Transatlanticist like German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the language has been unusually blunt.

When President Donald Trump asked countries to…

Through one conflict after another, herders in Iraqi Kurdistan have grazed their animals under the endless blue skies of the Zagros Mountains — a lifestyle they are stoically trying to maintain as yet another war engulfs the region.

Since the…

Just a trickle of cargo ships and tankers has made it through the Strait of Hormuz since Iranian forces blocked the crucial trade route in the Middle East war.

Here are facts and figures about vessels that have passed through the 167-kilometre…

By Joshua McElwee

ROME, March 18 (Reuters) – The Vatican’s top diplomat on Wednesday called on U.S. President Donald Trump to end the expanding Iran war as soon as possible and suggested Israel should also stop its strikes against Lebanon.

“I…

March 18 (Reuters) – Several loud bangs were heard in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Wednesday and some of the city’s residents received phone alerts for the first time warning them of a hostile aerial threat, a Reuters witness in the city said.

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By Mohammad Yunus Yawar and Ariba Shahid

KABUL/KARACHI, March 18 (Reuters) – Former heroin user Nazar Mohammad said the Kabul rehabilitation centre bombed by Pakistan cured him of his drug addiction two years ago and helped keep him alive. He…

By Parisa Hafezi

DUBAI, March 18 (Reuters) – The killing of Iran’s most influential powerbroker, Ali Larijani, has pushed the Islamic Republic into a more uncertain phase, complicating decision-making in Tehran and narrowing its options as the war…

An international media association on Wednesday criticised an “unprovoked assault” by Israeli police on journalists in Jerusalem, which it said left a CNN producer with a fractured wrist.

The Foreign Press Association (FPA) said police officers on…