Category: 3. Middle East

By David Brunnstrom

WASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump has been weighing whether to use ground forces to seize Iran’s strategic oil hub of Kharg Island, an operation analysts say could be achieved quickly, but leave U.S….

March 26 (Reuters) – The Pentagon is looking at sending up to 10,000 additional ground troops to the Middle East to give President Donald Trump more military options even as he weighs peace talks with Tehran, the Wall Street Journal reported on…

Senior Hamas official assails Board of Peace envoy for conditioning reconstruction on disarmament

Senior Hamas official Bassem Naim lays into Board of Peace High Representative Nickolay Mladenov for his remarks at the UN Security…

By Nathan Layne

GRAPEVINE, Texas, March 26 (Reuters) – Republicans at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference largely rallied behind U.S. strikes on Iran on Thursday, backing President Donald Trump on an issue that has dented his wider…

An Israeli soldier was killed and four others were wounded in a Hezbollah anti-tank missile attack in southern Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces announced Thursday evening, the military’s second fatality of the day.

The slain soldier was…

By Parisa Hafezi, Alexander Cornwell and Steve Holland

DUBAI/TEL AVIV/WASHINGTON, March 27 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump announced that he will pause attacks on Iran’s energy plants for 10 days at Tehran’s request and said talks with Iran…

Former premier Naftali Bennett vowed Thursday to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and stay out of any government led by him, but avoided ruling out the incumbent as a potential future coalition partner.

After 30 years in politics,…

The debate among Iranian hardliners over whether Tehran should seek a nuclear bomb in defiance of an escalating US-Israeli campaign is getting louder, more public and more insistent, sources in the country say.

With the Islamic…

By John Irish and Andrew Gray

VAUX-DE-CERNAY, France, March 26 (Reuters) – European powers on Thursday accused Russia of helping Iran target U.S. forces in the Middle East war and said they would raise the issue with U.S. Secretary of State Marco…