Category: 3. Middle East

WASHINGTON, March 25 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he would visit China for a rescheduled state visit with Chinese President Xi Jinping on May 14 and 15, rescheduling a closely watched trip that was delayed due to…

A fireball erupted over Gaza on Wednesday as an Israeli strike tore through a tent camp housing displaced Palestinians, killing one person and injuring seven, the territory’s civil defence agency said.

The bloodshed was the latest to rock the…

WASHINGTON/ATHENS — The founder of surveillance firm Intellexa plans to appeal against his conviction by a Greek court on charges of breaching personal data during a wiretapping scandal that rocked Greece in 2022, he told Reuters on…

By Abdelaziz Boumzar and Yara Nardi

NABATIEH, Lebanon, March 25 (Reuters) – Wearing identical uniforms, a dozen paramedics gathered around a pair of caskets in the southern Lebanese town of Nabatieh, crying so heavily their shoulders shook, as…

While Washington has signalled a diplomatic off-ramp from its war with Iran, Israel is preparing for the opposite in Lebanon — an open-ended military campaign against Hezbollah.

Analysts said the message from Israel was a blunt one: Hezbollah…

Filipino Defence Minister Gilbert Teodoro, whose country has declared an energy emergency as a result of the Middle East war, said on Wednesday that the Strait of Hormuz must be reopened “immediately”.

Iran has virtually closed the vital strait…

The proposals request that Iran must “commit never to pursue nuclear weapons“, pledge to dismantle nuclear facilities and to hand over the enriched amounts of uranium it possesses to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN nuclear…

The negotiations between the United States and Iran, announced by President Donald Trump, are no longer a regular diplomatic event in the eyes of the leaders of the Gulf states, Egypt, and Turkey. In their view, this is a critical juncture that…