Category: 3. Middle East

UN Humanitarian Affairs Lead Tom Fletcher has said the world faces “a moment of grave, grave peril”, warning the conflict in the Middle East is having a “massive impact” on civilians.

He also warned of “secondary impacts” further afield, voicing…

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Sunday that the country’s forces could fight an intense war for six months against the United States and Israel, which said it struck Tehran’s commanders at a seaside hotel in the heart of Beirut.

As the conflict…

Sri Lanka discharged from hospital 22 Iranian sailors who were plucked from life rafts after their warship was sunk by a US submarine, officials said Sunday.

The sailors were treated at Karapitiya Hospital in the southern port city of Galle since…

US President Donald Trump said Saturday he didn’t want Kurdish fighters from Iraq to join the war against Iran, after previously expressing support for the idea.

“I don’t want the Kurds to go into Iran… They’re willing to go in,…

SYDNEY, March 8 (Reuters) – Australia’s government said on Sunday it was considering requests to help protect countries attacked by Iran in the widening Middle East conflict, but reiterated it would not take part in any military operations in…

By Maya Gebeily, Alexander Cornwell, Nandita Bose and Parisa Hafezi

BEIRUT/MIAMI/TEL AVIV/DUBAI, March 8 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said he is not interested in negotiating with Iran and raised the possibility that the Iran war would…

Lebanon’s health ministry said Sunday that an Israeli strike on a hotel in central Beirut killed at least four people, with Israel saying it had targeted commanders from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.

Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war on…