Category: 3. Middle East

By Joanna Plucinska

LONDON, Jan 15 (Reuters) – European airlines like Wizz Air, Lufthansa and British Airways dodged Iraqi and Iranian airspace on Thursday, according to flight tracking websites, opting instead for routes over Afghanistan and…

On the face of it, the announcement of phase two of President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza would seem like progress.

But there remains a huge lack of clarity and detail about the future of the strip and the 2.1 million Palestinians who live…

By Jonathan Spicer

ISTANBUL, Jan 15 (Reuters) – Turkey’s foreign minister said on Thursday he hopes problems in neighbouring Syria can be resolved peacefully but the use of force by the government in Damascus could be an option after recent…

WASHINGTON/NUUK (Reuters) — US President Donald Trump reiterated on Wednesday that the US needs Greenland and that Denmark cannot be relied upon to protect the island, even as he said that “something will work out” with respect to the…

In June, Reza Pahlavi, the son of the deposed shah of Iran, announced that he was creating a secure platform where thousands of bureaucrats in the Iranian administration, including army officers, would register in preparation to take action…

By John Irish

PARIS, Jan 15 (Reuters) – Huge protests in Iran have galvanised exiled foes of the authorities but despite their hatred of the ruling clerics, a bitter schism dating to before the 1979 Islamic Revolution still afflicts the leading…