Category: 2. Middle East

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebel group said on Monday that it was imposing a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, as the regional war widens to threaten another key route for global oil supplies after months of disruption in the Strait of…

By Parisa Hafezi and Angus McDowall

DUBAI, July 20 (Reuters) – Opposition to Iran’s clerical rulers has long simmered in the country’s impoverished south. But after bearing the brunt of U.S. strikes this month, many residents are directing their…

In a dramatic new twist in the Iran conflict, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has confirmed what President Donald Trump had been alluding to for some time: Turkey helped prevent armed Iranian Kurdish groups from opening a new front inside…

By Jonathan Saul

LONDON, July 20 (Reuters) – Oil transfers between tankers in waters outside the Strait of Hormuz have slowed following a wave of recent attacks on vessels by Iranian forces, according to satellite analysis and sources.

Since the…

For months, veteran Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya spearheaded the group’s indirect ceasefire negotiations with arch-foe Israel in an effort to halt the war in Gaza.

On Monday, the Palestinian Islamist movement named him as its new…