Category: 3. Middle East

“Is Netanyahu real or AI?” an internet headline blared, pointing to a video that supposedly showed the Israeli prime minister with six fingers.

But the clip was real.

Speculation spiraled online that Netanyahu might be dead or wounded in an Iranian…

One moment he is demanding Iran allow tankers through, and the next he is telling allies to go and sort it out for themselves. “Go to the strait and just take it, protect it, use it for yourselves,” he said on Wednesday. “The hard part is done,…

By Matt Spetalnick and Humeyra Pamuk

WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump staunchly defended his handling of the month-old, U.S.-Israeli war on Iran in a prime-time address on Wednesday, saying the U.S. military was nearing…

“Donald Trump’s actions in Iran will be considered one of the greatest policy blunders in the history of our country, failing to articulate objectives, alienating allies, and ignoring the kitchen table problems Americans are facing,” Schumer…

WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday Washington will strike Iran “extremely hard” over the next two to three weeks and hit the country into the “Stone Ages.”

“We are going to hit them extremely hard over…

A senior Houthi official warned the Iran-backed rebels in Yemen could move to shutter the Bab el-Mandeb strait if any Gulf countries join the US and Israeli strikes against Iran.

The straight, a key shipping chokepoint and narrow passageway…

Palestinian shops and public institutions were closed across the West Bank on Wednesday in protest of a law the Knesset passed this week mandating the death penalty for West Bank Palestinians convicted of deadly terrorist acts.

In the…

By Trevor Hunnicutt, Steve Holland and Gram Slattery

WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump will address the nation in a televised speech at 9 p.m. EDT (0100 GMT) on Wednesday as his administration signals it is moving toward…