A US government charter flight was bringing Americans to the United States from the Middle East, and additional flights were being arranged for locations across the region, the US State Department said on Wednesday.In addition, Qatar Airways will…
Category: 3. Middle East
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Evacuation flights start as travelers stranded in Gulf
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Perishables to plane parts stranded as Middle East conflict hits air cargo
By Allison Lampert, Lisa Baertlein and Julie Zhu
March 5 (Reuters) – Shipments ranging from fresh produce to airplane parts are in limbo as an escalating Middle East conflict reduces the world’s air cargo capacity by more than one-fifth and pushes…
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Benjamin Netanyahu meets with French, Lebanese President, PM
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, French President Emmanuel Macron, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam met on Wednesday to discuss the situation in Lebanon, Macron wrote in a post on X/Twitter. Macron reaffirmed the…
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Tehran forced Pakistani man to kill Donald Trump
The Justice Department accused Asif Merchant of trying to recruit people in the United States in the plan targeting Trump and other US politicians in retaliation for Washington’s killing of the Corps’ top commander, Qassem Soleimani.The Corps has…
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Iran launches wave of missiles at Israel; US Republicans block measure to halt US air campaign
By Parisa Hafezi, Pesha Magid and Tuvan Gumrukcu
DUBAI/JERUSALEM/ANKARA, March 5 (Reuters) – Iran launched a wave of missiles at Israel early on Thursday, sending millions of residents into bomb shelters as the U.S.-Israel war with Iran entered…
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Iranian sailors recovering in Sri Lankan hospital after US submarine attack, authorities say
By Uditha Jayasinghe
GALLE, Sri Lanka, March 5 (Reuters) – Iranian sailors who survived a U.S. submarine strike in the Indian Ocean were recovering at a hospital in the Sri Lankan port city of Galle, authorities said on Thursday, a day after at…
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IDF planning for at least 1-2 more weeks of Iran ops; over 5,000 bombs dropped
The Israeli military is planning for at least one or two more weeks of operations against Iran, during which it aims to hit thousands more Iranian regime targets, The Times of Israel learned on Wednesday.
Israel’s goal is a systematic…
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Pakistani man says Iran forced him into plot to kill Trump, media say
March 4 (Reuters) – A Pakistani man accused of planning to kill President Donald Trump told jurors on Wednesday that he did not willingly work with Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps to devise the plot, media said.
The Justice…
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Iran conflict’s impact on energy temporary and a ‘small price,’ US energy secretary says
By Ismail Shakil
March 4 (Reuters) – The impact of the Iran conflict on energy markets will be temporary and a “small price” to pay for U.S. military goals, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Fox News on Wednesday.
U.S. and Israeli strikes on…
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Pentagon identifies two soldiers killed in Iran war
LOS ANGELES, March 4 (Reuters) – The Pentagon on Wednesday identified two more soldiers who were killed in the war against Iran.
The two Army Reserve soldiers died on Sunday in a drone attack on a U.S. military facility in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait…
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