Category: 3. Middle East

March 7 (Reuters) – More than 150 Iranian nationals, including diplomats and their families, left Lebanon on Saturday, a senior Lebanese security source told Reuters, after an Israeli military spokesperson threatened “representatives” of Iran in…

By Maya Gebeily, Humeyra Pamuk and Alexander Cornwell

BEIRUT/WASHINGTON/TEL AVIV, March 7 (Reuters) – Israel and Iran traded attacks as the Middle East war entered a second week on Saturday, while Tehran made an unusual apology to neighbouring…

BAKU, March 7 (Reuters) – Azerbaijan said it had prevented several acts of “terrorist” sabotage planned by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including a plot to attack a major oil pipeline running through the South Caucasus to…

By Matt Spetalnick and Andrea Shalal

WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) – One week into the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran that has plunged the Middle East into turmoil, President Donald Trump faces a growing list of risks and challenges that raise…

By Nandita Bose, Sarah Morland and David Brunnstrom

MIAMI, Florida, March 7 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed Latin American leaders to Florida on Saturday to launch a new coalition against drug cartels, even as he struck a…

Lion-emblazoned flags of pre-revolution Iran fluttered in cities across the world on Saturday as demonstrators took to the streets a week after the start of the war in the Middle East.

Some protesters came out in support of Reza Pahlavi, the…

Two attack helicopters, their forward-facing guns silhouetted against Doha’s clear blue sky, flew low over the city’s cruise ship terminal as stranded passengers boarded buses and cars on Saturday for Riyadh, hoping to catch flights home.

“Eight…

An Israeli special forces operation that failed to find the remains of airman Ron Arad, captured in Lebanon in 1986, killed 41 people and wounded 40 in eastern Lebanon.

Gutted buildings, torn-off roofs, munitions scattered on the ground surrounded…