Category: 3. Middle East

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…

By David Jeans

NEW YORK, March 26 (Reuters) – The United States has deployed uncrewed drone speedboats for patrols as part of its operations against Iran, the Pentagon said, the first time Washington has confirmed using such vessels in an active…

WASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was pausing attacks on Iran’s energy plants for 10 days at the Iranian government’s request and said talks with Tehran were going “very well”.

“As per Iranian…

US President Donald Trump took the world — including Israel, it seems — by surprise when he announced on Monday that his administration had begun “very good” talks with Iran on ending the US-Israeli war on the Islamic…

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday that it was in the “interest” of all G7 nations to push for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz currently blocked by Iran.

“It’s in their interest to help,” Rubio said shortly before heading to…