Category: 2. Middle East

CAIRO, March 16 (Reuters) – Iraq’s interior ministry said on Monday that a drone hit a hotel in Baghdad without causing casualties or material damages.

Security sources earlier said a drone hit Al-Rasheed hotel in the Green Zone, which houses…

By Samia Nakhoul

DUBAI, March 16 (Reuters) – Gulf Arab states did not ask the U.S. to go to war with Iran, but many are now urging it not to stop short by leaving the Islamic Republic still able to threaten the Gulf’s oil lifeline and the…

WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) – Secretary of State Marco Rubio has designated as wrongfully detained in Iran 70-year-old Iranian-American Kamran Hekmati, his cousin said on Monday.

“This designation is an official recognition by the U.S….

WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) – The number of U.S. troops wounded in the war against Iran has risen to about 200, the U.S. military said on Monday, as the conflict enters its third week.

In a statement, the U.S. military’s Central Command said…

Israel’s President Isaac Herzog told AFP Monday that Europe should back his country’s fight against Hezbollah, as Israeli forces carried out ground operations in Lebanon.

In an exclusive interview at his Jerusalem residence, the Israeli head of…

WASHINGTON — The State Department has officially determined that a second American citizen is being “wrongfully detained” in Iran, his family said. 

Kamran Hekmati, a 61-year-old Jewish resident of New York, was arrested during a trip to…

By Kanishka Singh

WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) – A “significant Israeli ground offensive” in Lebanon must be averted since it could have devastating humanitarian consequences, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Britain said in a joint statement…

Here are the latest developments Monday in the Middle East war:

– Baghdad hotel attack –

A fire broke out late Monday on the roof of a hotel in Baghdad’s Green Zone, witnesses told AFP, with the interior ministry saying there were no casualties or…

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Monday issued a renewed warning to owners of US-linked industries in the region, urging workers and nearby residents to evacuate ahead of possible attacks, Anadolu…

March 16 (Reuters) – A Pakistani airstrike hit a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul, killing or wounding an unspecified number of people, an Afghan Taliban spokesperson said on Monday, an action that Pakistan rejected, saying it had targeted…