Category: 3. Middle East

Israel is planning to launch a “massive” ground invasion of southern Lebanon in order to push the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group away from the border and destroy its weapons stores and positions, US and Israeli officials told the…

March 14 (Reuters) – The U.S. Embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad was hit in a missiles attack, Iraqi security sources told Reuters on Saturday.

The attack caused smoke to rise from the embassy’s building, the sources said, without providing…

JTA — The Trump administration’s Religious Liberties Commission was wracked again this week over anti-Israel sentiment, as a second affiliated individual has exited while claiming it had been hijacked by a “Zionist political…

March 14 (Reuters) – Kharg Island, where U.S. forces on Friday destroyed military targets, is the hub for 90% of Iran’s oil exports and has long been seen as a key vulnerability that would provoke a severe response by Tehran if attacked.

President…

Iran threatened Saturday to reduce US-linked oil facilities to “a pile of ashes” as the two-week-old Middle East war spilled over into a global oil price crisis.

Iranian armed forces issued the warning after US President Donald Trump said he may…

By Kanishka Singh

WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) – White House AI czar David Sacks said on Friday the U.S. should “declare victory and get out” of its war on Iran, a rare instance of a prominent figure in Donald Trump’s administration calling for…

Threatened by volleys of Hezbollah rockets and missiles from Iran, residents of Arab towns in northern Israel are complaining about a lack of public shelters.

“The state is obliged to build public shelters so that the entire population has access…

A Lebanese-born man who learned a week earlier that four of his family members — including two brothers who were reportedly Hezbollah operatives — were killed in an Israeli airstrike in his native country, waited in his car outside a…

By Bo Erickson, Parisa Hafezi, Maya Gebeily and Alexander Cornwell

WASHINGTON/DUBAI/JERUSALEM, March 14 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to order strikes on the petroleum infrastructure of Iran’s Kharg Island oil hub unless…