Category: 3. Middle East

ROME, Jan 2 (Reuters) – Emanuele Galeppini, a 16-year-old Italian international golfer who lived in Dubai, was named on Friday as the first of several possible victims from Italy to be identified after a New Year’s Eve bar fire in the Swiss ski…

On Tuesday, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held talks with U.S. President Trump and his team on the Gaza Strip, Syria, Lebanon and the rest of the active war fronts, an unusual drama was unfolding in Yemen. Saudi Arabia attacked two…

ANKARA, Jan 2 (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he would have a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday to discuss peace efforts between Ukraine and Russia as well as issues surrounding Gaza.

Speaking to reporters in…

US President Donald Trump has warned Iran’s authorities against killing peaceful protesters, saying Washington “will come to their rescue”.

In a brief post on social media, he wrote: “We are locked and loaded and ready to go.” He gave no further…

DUBAI, Jan 2 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Friday to come to the aid of protesters in Iran if security forces fire on them, days into unrest that has left several dead and posed the biggest internal threat to Iranian…

President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States is “locked and loaded” to respond if Iran kills protesters, prompting Tehran to warn that intervention would destabilise the region.

Protesters and security forces clashed in several…

Israel asked Qatar to increase the financial assistance it was giving to Gaza one month before the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, massacre, the Yedioth Aharonoth daily reported Friday.

In September 2023, Israeli officials met at a Jerusalem…

Jan 2 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said that if Iran shoots and violently kills peaceful protesters, the United States of America will come to their rescue.

“We are locked and loaded and ready to go,” he said in a Truth Social…