Category: 2. Middle East

March 2 (Reuters) – Qatar has intercepted Iranian attacks that targeted civilian infrastructure, including the international airport, the Qatari foreign ministry spokesperson told CNN on Monday, adding that such attacks could not remain…

Iranian authorities announced on Wednesday that former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had been killed in a missile strike carried out by Israel and the United States.

According to Iranian reports, Ahmadinejad was…

By Katya Golubkova, Yuka Obayashi and Nidhi Verma

TOKYO/NEW DELHI, March 2 (Reuters) – The widening Iranian conflict is disrupting oil flows to several Asian countries as vessels are bottled up within the Middle East Gulf and crude and transport…

Sheikh Ikrama Sabri, preacher of Al-Aqsa Mosque and head of the Supreme Islamic Council in Jerusalem, has condemned the Israeli occupation authorities’ decision to close the mosque, stating that there is “no…

The death toll from a bombing that struck a girls’ primary school in the southern Iranian city of Minab has risen to 160 students, with a further 95 injured, according to Iran’s Tasnim news agency citing the…

By Heejin Kim and Sebin Choi

SEOUL, March 2 (Reuters) – U.S. and Israeli military strikes on Iran will reinforce the nuclear ambitions of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, say experts and former officials, as attention focuses on whether he might…

NICOSIA, March 2 (Reuters) – Britain’s Royal Air Force base Akrotiri in Cyprus was hit by a suspected drone strike overnight, causing limited damage and no casualties, Cypriot authorities and the UK’s Ministry of Defence said.

A Cyprus government…

March 2 (Reuters) – Kuwait intercepted hostile drones on Monday, the third consecutive day of Iranian retaliatory strikes on neighbouring Gulf states in response to U.S. and Israeli attacks on the Islamic Republic.

No injuries were reported after…

By Phil Stewart and Humeyra Pamuk

WASHINGTON, March 1 (Reuters) – Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces…