Category: 2. Middle East

By Jonathan Saul

LONDON, March 18 (Reuters) – A proposal from the UN’s shipping agency on Wednesday calls for a safe maritime corridor to free some 20,000 seafarers stranded in the Gulf by war in Iran.

Hundreds of vessels have dropped anchor since…

MADRID, March 18 (Reuters) – Spain plans to evacuate and relocate troops deployed in Iraq in the coming days due to the conflict in Iran and the wider Gulf region, Defence Minister Margarita Robles said on Wednesday.

Around 300 Spanish troops are…

US intelligence concluded Wednesday that Iran was not rebuilding nuclear enrichment capacities destroyed last year by the United States and Israel, contradicting a key justification by President Donald Trump for his ongoing war.

Tulsi Gabbard, a…

Iraq’s Electricity Ministry said Wednesday that Iranian gas flows have stopped following developments in the region, significantly reducing power generation and taking about 3,100 megawatts offline, Anadolu…

WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) – The White House said on Wednesday that China had agreed to postpone U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing, originally scheduled in just two weeks.

Spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said that the White House was…

The upheaval in Iran’s leadership since the start of the war with Israel and the United States has further strengthened the political influence of the Islamic republic’s ideological army, the Revolutionary Guards, analysts said.

The Islamic…

US President Donald Trump’s administration scrambled Wednesday to rein in surging energy costs from war in the Middle East, temporarily waiving a century-old shipping law and easing Venezuela sanctions.

The moves came after oil prices rocketed…

Dubai-listed Dana Gas has evacuated all its staff from its Khor Mor gas field in Kurdistan region of Iraq as a precautionary measure following Iran’s threats to attack oil and gas facilities in the Gulf region in retaliation for an Israeli…