By Yomna Ehab and Jaidaa Taha
March 18 (Reuters) – Qatar’s state oil giant QatarEnergy said on Wednesday that Iranian missile attacks on Ras Laffan, the site of the country’s core LNG processing operations, caused “extensive damage”, while the UAE…
Category: 3. Middle East
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Iran targets Gulf energy sites after gas field strike
Iran targeted energy facilities across the Gulf and threatened further destructive attacks after a key gas field was hit, raising fears Thursday of a wider assault on fuel supplies that could jolt already rattled global markets.
The warning came…
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Donald Trump considering increasing troops in Middle East amid Iran operations
US President Donald Trump’s administration is considering deploying thousands of troops to reinforce its operation in the Middle East, as the US military prepares for possible next steps in its campaign against Iran, said a US official and three…
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Exclusive-US weighs military reinforcements as Iran war enters possible new phase
By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali, Erin Banco and Gram Slattery
WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration is considering deploying thousands of U.S. troops to reinforce its operation in the Middle East, as the U.S….
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Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war, Washington Post reports
WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) – The Pentagon has asked the White House to approve a more than $200 billion request to the U.S. Congress to fund the war in Iran, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a senior administration official.
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Iranian barrages kill at least four Palestinians in West Bank, one man in Israel, emergency services say
The strike on the West Bank town of Beit Awa, near Hebron, also wounded six other women, the Red Crescent said. Emergency services reported that one foreign worker was killed in central Israel, while several others were lightly wounded in the…
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First Iranian attack to kill Palestinians hits West Bank, three women dead
JERUSALEM, March 18 (Reuters) – Three Palestinian women were killed in an Iranian missile attack in the occupied West Bank late on Wednesday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said, in the first deadly Iranian strike there — and the first to kill…
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Trump attends return of US aircrew killed in Iran war crash
US President Donald Trump attended the return Wednesday of six crew members killed when their refueling aircraft crashed during the Iran war.
It was the second time since the start of the conflict that Trump has traveled to Dover Air Force Base in…
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Three Palestinian women killed in West Bank from Iran missile
Three Palestinian women were killed in an Iranian missile attack in the West Bank late on Wednesday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said, in the first deadly Iranian strike there, and the first to kill Palestinians, since the start of the…
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