Category: 3. Middle East

BEIJING, March 31 (Reuters) – China’s foreign minister and his Pakistani counterpart will discuss the situationin Iran during the latter’s visit to China on Tuesday, China’s foreign ministry said.

The two countries have similar positions on major…

A month into the US-Israeli war with the Islamic Republic, one Iran-backed armed group that had been noticeably absent from the fighting finally joined the fray.

On Saturday, Yemen’s Houthi rebels fired a ballistic missile at what they…

WASHINGTON (AP) — US President Donald Trump is threatening to deploy ground troops to seize critical oil infrastructure on Iran’s Kharg Island, a military gambit that experts say would risk American lives and could still fail to end the…

Iran fired missiles across the Middle East on Tuesday as its capital was hit by fresh explosions, after US President Donald Trump threatened the country’s key oil export hub, power stations and desalination plants.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…

By Alexander Cornwell, Trevor Hunnicutt and Yomna Ehab

TEL AVIV/WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) – Iran attacked and set ablaze a fully loaded crude oil tanker off Dubai on Monday, as President Donald Trump warned the U.S. would obliterate Iran’s…

US President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to target Iran’s energy infrastructure, including the country’s desalination plants. Such a move — and Iran’s possible targeting of the plants of its Gulf Arab neighbors — could have…

The UN observer mission in Lebanon said two of its personnel were killed Monday in the second deadly incident in 24 hours in the country’s south, where Israel and Hezbollah are fighting.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon…

March 30 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump told aides he is willing to end the military campaign against Iran even if the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed and leave a complex operation to reopen it for a later date, the Wall Street…