Category: 2. Middle East

By Patricia Zengerle, Nolan D. McCaskill and David Morgan

WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s Republicans insisted on Monday that the attack on Iran was fully within his authority as commander in chief, while Democrats…

SYDNEY, March 3 (Reuters) – Australia said on Tuesday that all of its defence personnel stationed at the Al Minhad Air Base near Dubai were safe following a drone attack at the site over the weekend.

“All the Australians who are there are safe and…

US forces have shot down hundreds of Iranian ballistic missiles in recent days, raising questions about how long American air defense interceptor stocks will last in a war that could continue for weeks or more.

Iran responded to the massive…

By Kanishka Singh

WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) – Secretary of State Marco Rubio said U.S. forces “would not deliberately target a school” after Iranian state media reported over 160 were killed in a strike on a girls’ school on the first day of…

Energy prices surged Monday as the war in the Middle East led to outages of key energy production operations and a critical waterway was essentially emptied of traffic.

European natural gas prices finished the day up more than 39 percent after…

By Jana Winter

WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) – Iran and its proxies could target the U.S. with attacks in response to the Saturday killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei by Israeli and U.S. strikes, according to a U.S. intelligence…

WASHINGTON — The US State Department is urging Americans in more than a dozen Middle East countries to immediately depart as Israel and the United States continue to exchange strikes with Iran. 

The department “urges Americans to DEPART NOW…

By David Brunnstrom

March 2 (Reuters) – U.S. first lady Melania Trump chaired a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on children and education in conflict on Monday, two days after U.S. President Donald Trump and Israel launched attacks…

The United States attacked Iran only after learning that ally Israel was going to strike and fearing Tehran would retaliate against US forces, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday.

“We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action. We…

WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) – The United States is not postured for ground forces in Iran at this moment but U.S. President Donald Trump has those options, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on Monday, adding that the…