Category: 3. Middle East

April 1 (Reuters) – Dubai-based airline Emirates’ website said on Wednesday that Iranian nationals were not allowed to enter or transit the United Arab Emirates.

The website of another carrier, Flydubai, said Iranian nationals holding a UAE…

By Alasdair Pal

SYDNEY, April 1 (Reuters) – Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will deliver a rare address to the nation on Wednesday about the war in the Middle East, with media reporting he will encourage Australians to conserve fuel.

The…

JAKARTA, April 1 (Reuters) – Indonesia has called on the United Nations to conduct an investigation into the deaths of three of its UNIFIL peacekeepers following Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon, a foreign ministry official said in a statement…

By Kanishka Singh and Ismail Shakil

WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday Washington could see the “finish line” in the Iran war, which is now in its fifth week, and the United States will have to…

BUENOS AIRES, March 31 (Reuters) – Argentina has designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization, its presidential office said in a statement on Tuesday, following a push from the Trump administration for…

BEIRUT, April 1 (Reuters) – At least seven people were killed and 24 wounded in two Israeli strikes in the Beirut area, the Lebanese health ministry said on Wednesday, in attacks that hit vehicles in Beirut’s southern outskirts and in an area…

WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM/CAIRO, April 1 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States could end its military attacks on Iran within two to three weeks and that Tehran did not have to make a deal as a prerequisite for the conflict…

Senior administration officials said at the start of the war that the US might consider diluting Iran’s highly enriched uranium on site, rather than removing it from the country. But that would be a large, complex and time-consuming operation,…