Category: 3. Middle East

The United States and Israel planned for Kurdish militia forces to invade Iran early in the ongoing war, hoping to spur a rebellion that would bring down the Islamic Republic – but leaks to the media, lobbying by allies, and wariness…

Police have arrested two more people over an apparent bid to explode a homemade device outside the Paris branch of the Bank of America, the French domestic security service said on Sunday.

Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said on Saturday he…

The funeral took place on Sunday in Lebanon of three journalists killed by an Israeli strike on the south the previous day, an attack which Beirut called a “blatant crime”.

Ali Shoeib, a veteran correspondent for Hezbollah’s Al Manar TV, Fatiman…

By Steve Holland and Nandita Bose

WASHINGTON, March 29 (Reuters) – As the war in Iran threatens to imperil President Donald Trump’s legacy, the political stakes also are rising for two of his top lieutenants: Vice President JD Vance and Secretary…

An important American early warning and control aircraft was heavily damaged in an Iranian attack on an airbase in Saudi Arabia, according to officials cited by The Wall Street Journal and footage posted online on Sunday.

Iran’s strike on…

By Joshua McElwee

VATICAN CITY, March 29 (Reuters) – Pope Leo said on Sunday that God rejects the prayers of leaders who start wars and have “hands full of blood”, in unusually forceful remarks as the Iran war entered its second month.

Addressing…

CAIRO, March 29 (Reuters) – Two Israeli air strikes on two checkpoints of the Hamas-led police force killed at least six Palestinians including a child, local health officials said, in the latest round of violence despite a U.S.-brokered…