Category: 3. Middle East

The USS Gerald R. Ford — the world’s largest aircraft carrier — is currently deployed in the Mediterranean Sea and is expected to take part in strikes against Iran if US President Donald Trump decides to launch them.

Washington has threatened…

One camp expresses cautious optimism, hoping the negotiations will prevent another conflict, and evoking memories of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war and the more recent 12-day escalation war with Israel, which left more than 1,200 people dead and…

By Catherine Cartier, Eleanor Whalley and Maria Laguna

Feb 27 (Reuters) – Satellite images showed a rise in the number of military support aircraft including refuelling tankers at a Saudi airbase used by the U.S. military during a four-day period…

By Emma Farge

GENEVA, Feb 27 (Reuters) – Restrictions imposed by the Taliban are jeopardising the lives of women and their children who are sometimes denied emergency treatment, a U.N. human rights expert said on Friday.

Regulations require sick or…

Americans for the first time sympathize more with Palestinians than Israelis in their conflict, according to a Gallup poll released Friday, indicating a sea change in the public views of Israel’s key ally.

Views on the Middle East divide…

By Francois Murphy

VIENNA, Feb 27 (Reuters) – The U.N. nuclear watchdog issued a confidential report on Friday urging Iran to let it inspect all its nuclear sites and pointing at Isfahan as a place of interest because of a new enrichment plant and…

The High Court of Justice on Friday temporarily blocked the government from shuttering the Gaza operations of dozens of aid organizations that petitioned the court in a dispute over new Israeli rules requiring them to name Palestinian…

Danish container shipping giant Maersk said on Friday that it will temporarily reroute some of its vessels away from the Suez Canal in response to “unforeseen constraints” in the Red Sea region. The move comes amid the growing possibility of…