Category: 3. Middle East

Four people were injured Thursday evening as a Hezbollah rocket from Lebanon hit a home in Kiryat Shmona, and an Iranian missile fragment hit Haifa’s oil refinery, causing damage but no injuries, amid the Israeli-American war with…

Gas prices, which had already been rising since the start of the conflict, surged in response to the Iranian attack on Qatar. The UK benchmark peaked briefly at almost 183p per therm on Thursday before easing back to 154.8p, an 11.3% increase…

By Andrew Mills, Trevor Hunnicutt and Maayan Lubell

DOHA/WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM, March 20 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump told Israel not to repeat its attacks on Iranian natural gas infrastructure as tit-for-tat strikes on energy plants…

BRUSSELS, March 19 (Reuters) – European Union leaders called on Thursday for a moratorium on military strikes on energy and water facilities in the Middle East, amid growing concerns about the impact of the Iran war on the global economy.

“The…

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu both praise their relationship as excellent, but after three weeks of attacking Iran, their tactics are increasingly diverging — the result, some experts say, of Trump’s…

March 19 (Reuters) – Russia issued a fresh call on Thursday for an end to hostilities in the Gulf, starting with a halt to U.S. and Israeli attacks, and made a new offer to use its diplomatic leverage to help end the fighting.

“We call for the…

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday that it “takes money to kill bad guys” when asked if the Pentagon had requested $200 billion in funding for the Iran war.

Exactly how much the war has cost so far has yet to be publicly disclosed,…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The US military’s request for $200 billion in additional funding for the Iran war met with stiff opposition in the US Congress on Thursday, as Democrats and even some Republicans questioned the need for the money…