Category: 3. Middle East

By Nandita Bose and Humeyra Pamuk

WASHINGTON, March 25 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump will hit Iran harder if Tehran fails to accept that the country has been “defeated militarily,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on…

KYIV, March 25 (Reuters) – Russia sought to blackmail the United States by offering to stop sharing military intelligence with Iran if, in return, Washington would cut off Ukraine from its intelligence data, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on…

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…