Category: 3. Middle East

By Stanley Widianto

JAKARTA, March 4 (Reuters) – Indonesia’s foreign minister said talks on U.S. President Donald Trump’s Gaza “Board of Peace,” of which the Southeast Asian nation is a key troop-contributing member, were on hold due to the Middle…

The administration of US President Donald Trump is considering the possibility of providing military protection to oil and gas tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz. The goal is to curb the rise in energy…

MADRID, March 4 (Reuters) – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Wednesday doubled down on his opposition to the attack on Iran by the U.S. and Israel, warning that the conflict risked playing “Russian roulette” with the lives of…

DUBAI, March 4 (Reuters) – Iranians will bid farewell to late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a ceremony in Tehran late on Wednesday, a senior Iranian official told state media.

Hojjatoleslam Mahmoudi, head of Iran’s Islamic…

Iran’s ambassador to Austria, Asadollah Eshrag Jahromi, said that Tehran called on all UN member states to condemn the actions of the United States and Israel in the Middle East.

“We call on the UN Secretary…

A Greek appeals court on Wednesday is to pronounce fresh sentences in a landmark trial over crimes committed by the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party at the height of the country’s economic crisis.

More than 40 defendants are facing sentences of…

By Maayan Lubell and Rami Ayyub

JERUSALEM, March 4, (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered on a career-long ambition to topple Iran’s leadership, but his lockstep alignment with U.S. President Donald Trump faces a test as…