Category: 2. Middle East

JERUSALEM, March 3 (Reuters) – Israel’s military on Tuesday reported strikes in the Tel Aviv area of Israel from Iranian missiles.

“Search and rescue forces, together with numerous emergency teams, are currently operating at the impact sites in…

By Steven Scheer

JERUSALEM, March 3 (Reuters) – Israeli authorities are using container ships to bring back dozens of essential medical staff stuck abroad after the air war with Iran broke out on Saturday, disrupting travel, according to Israel’s…

More than 30,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in Lebanon by the escalation of hostilities in the Middle East, the United Nations said Tuesday.

Israel is continuing to carry out air raids in Lebanon in a campaign against Iran-backed…

WASHINGTON, March 3 (Reuters) – Donald Trump said the U.S. military has enough stockpiled weapons to fight wars “forever”, as the Republican president and his administration continued their push to justify a broad, open-ended war on Iran with…

By Samia Nakhoul

DUBAI, March 3 (Reuters) – Iranian airstrikes on Gulf states could push them into a broad coalition aligned with the United States and widen the war against Iran, Middle East analysts said, after attacks on ports, cities and oil…

Mansoureh Khojasti Bagherzadeh, the wife of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has died from wounds sustained in a reported US-Israeli airstrike on Tehran, according to Iran’s Tasnim news agency.

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News Source: www.middleeastmonitor.com

Iran is prepared for a prolonged conflict and will ensure its adversaries “regret their miscalculations”, Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said on Monday.

In a statement…

LONDON, March 3 (Reuters) – Foreign minister Yvette Cooper said on Tuesday that Britain was working with airlines on increasing capacity out of Muscat, Oman to prioritise the evacuation of vulnerable British nationals.

Cooper, addressing lawmakers…

Global stock markets dived, energy prices surged and the dollar gained Tuesday as the Iran war drove volatility across global financial markets and roiled companies worldwide.

World oil prices soared more than eight percent and European natural…