Category: 3. Middle East

ANKARA — The United States has proposed holding talks between Vice President JD Vance and Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, a Turkish source confirmed to Al-Monitor, in a potential shift in efforts to open a diplomatic…

BRUSSELS, March 23 (Reuters) – Soldiers were deployed on the streets of leading Belgian citieson Monday to bolster security for the Jewish community, after what officials said were antisemitic attacks in Belgium and the Netherlands.

The move…

A number of Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank have been attacked by extremist Jewish settlers.

The attacks began after a teenage settler was killed on Saturday, reportedly after being hit by a vehicle driven by a Palestinian.

Six…

March 23 (Reuters) – Iran’s veteran supreme leader and a host of other top figures and Revolutionary Guards commanders have been killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes but the ruling system has maintained its ability to strategise and operate in the war…

Just a trickle of cargo ships and tankers — most of them Iranian — have made it through the Strait of Hormuz since Iranian forces effectively blocked the crucial trade route in the Middle East war.

Here are facts and figures about vessels that…

Britain is sending short-range air defence systems to the Gulf to help counter Iranian missile attacks, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday.

“We’re deploying short range air defence systems to Bahrain at speed,” Starmer told a parliamentary…