Category: 2. Middle East

By Simon Lewis

WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) – The Trump administration has organized nearly 50 flights to return U.S. citizens from the Middle East since the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran began, a State Department official said on Thursday, and…

By Daphne Psaledakis

WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) – An FBI alert to law enforcement agencies last month warning of the possibility that Tehran might try to retaliate for any U.S. strikes on Iran by launching drone attacks in California was based…

By John Irish

PARIS, March 11 (Reuters) – A senior official from a Paris-based Iranian opposition group said on Thursday that the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran would not topple the clerical leadership, arguing that only a popular uprising backed by…

BEIRUT, March 12 (Reuters) – Israeli airstrikes hit a building twice in central Beirut less than a kilometre from the government headquarters, Reuters video footage showed on Thursday, shortly after the Israeli military said it had begun a new…

By Ahmed Eljechtimi

RABAT, March 12 (Reuters) – Morocco is developing plans to repatriate its nationals who fought for Islamic State in Syria and were transferred by the United States into Iraqi detention, a senior security official said on…

JERUSALEM, March 12 (Reuters) – Israel’s military on Thursday dropped charges against five soldiers accused of torturing a Palestinian detained during the Gaza war, in a case that exposed divisions within Israel over whether soldiers can abuse…

March 12 (Reuters) – The U.S. and Western allies clashed with Russia and China on Thursday over Iran’s nuclear intentions, as Washington sought at the United Nations to further justify the war it launched on Iran two weeks ago.

At a meeting of the…

DUBAI, March 12 (Reuters) – Ships must coordinate with Iran’s navy to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, the country’s foreign ministry spokesperson said in comments carried by Mehr news agency on Thursday.

Iran will fight on and keep the Strait…

By Ahmed Kerdi, Maya Gebeily and Maayan Lubell

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, March 12 (Reuters) – Israeli airstrikes hit two buildings in the heart of Beirut near the Lebanese government’s headquarters on Thursday, ramping up Israel’s offensive against…

March 12 (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah on Tuesday, where the two leaders discussed regional developments, the prime minister’s office said.

The meeting comes as the Middle…