Category: 2. Middle East

By Joshua McElwee

VATICAN CITY, May 28 (Reuters) – Pope Leo this week repudiated a major teaching used by the Catholic Church since at least the fifth century to evaluate when countries might be justified in waging wars, in a move experts said…

ISTANBUL, May 28 (Reuters) – Drone attacks were reported on three tankers in the Black Sea on Thursday near Turkey’s northern coast, shipping agency Tribeca said.

The tanker James II, sailing under the Palau flag and in ballast, was some 50 miles…

By Alexander Dziadosz, Nazih Osseiran and Catherine Cartier

SIDON/BEIRUT, May 28 (Reuters) – The ceasefire agreed in Lebanon last month has brought little respite for civilians, who are being driven from a steadily expanding swathe of the country…

By Raphael Satter

WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) – U.S. forces deployed to war zones have been targeted using commercially available location data, according to reports fielded by military officials, an illustration of how the global surveillance…

The United States and Iran traded strikes on Thursday in their most serious clash since an April ceasefire began, rattling ongoing efforts to negotiate an end to the war and open the vital Strait of Hormuz.

The latest exchange also drew in US ally…

The United States and Iran accused each other of violating an ongoing truce on Thursday following an exchange of fire, three months after the Middle East war began with a wave of US-Israeli strikes on the Islamic republic.

The latest exchange was…

The Israeli military said on Thursday it had begun new strikes on Hezbollah infrastructure around the southern Lebanese city of Tyre after issuing an evacuation warning to its residents.

Israel the previous day had declared all areas south of…

By Jana Choukeir, Enas Alashray and Phil Stewart

DUBAI/WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said on Thursday it targeted a U.S. airbase after the U.S. military carried out what a Washington official said were strikes targeting…

By Francois Murphy

VIENNA, May 28 (Reuters) – The trial of a 21-year-old man over a foiled Islamist attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna in 2024 enters its final day on Thursday, with the defendant, Beran A, having already pleaded guilty to…

Global average temperatures are likely to continue at or near record levels this year and for the next four years afterwards, the United Nations warned Thursday.

The 11 hottest individual years ever recorded all happened from 2015 onwards and the…