Category: 3. Middle East

WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) – A complex tug-of-war inside the White House is driving U.S. President Donald Trump’s shifting public statements on the course of the Iran war, as aides debate when and how to declare victory even as the conflict…

By Kanishka Singh

WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said that he thinks new Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, whose father, the former supreme leader, was killed on the first day of the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran,…

A French soldier was killed in an attack in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday, confirming the first French military death in the Middle East war.

Since US-Israeli strikes on Iran last month engulfed the…

For Sahar Saidian, past and present collide every day on the airwaves as she hosts a Persian-language show on Israeli public radio for listeners in Israel and in Iran, the country she left behind years ago.

“After 26 years in Israel, I look more…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted Thursday he was not certain that the Iranian people would bring down the Islamic Republic once Israel and the US create the conditions for them to do so. “You can lead someone to water; you…

By Parisa Hafezi and Maya Gebeily

DUBAI/BEIRUT, March 13 (Reuters) – The leaders of Iran, Israel and the United States all voiced defiance and vowed to fight on as the Middle East war approached the two-week mark on Friday, killing thousands of…

The US Central Command on Thursday said a KC-135 refueling aircraft crashed in Iraq in an apparent accident involving another tanker.

“The incident occurred in friendly airspace during Operation Epic Fury, and rescue efforts are ongoing….