JERUSALEM, March 31 (Reuters) - Israel will establish a buffer zone inside southern Lebanon and maintain control over the entire area up to the Litani River once the conflict with Hezbollah militants ends, Israel's defence minister said on Tuesday. "At the end of the operation,
BRUSSELS, March 31 (Reuters) - Israel's decision to pass a law making death by hanging a default sentence for Palestinians convicted in military courts of deadly attacks is 'very concerning' for the European Union, said a Commission spokesperson on Tuesday. "This is a clear
MOSCOW, March 31 (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that U.S. plans to unfurl regime change in Iran and Venezuela were aimed at gaining more control over oil and gas resources. Lavrov said the United States and Israel did not want normalisation
The vice president is considered unenthusiastic about military intervention in Iran. The White House believes, therefore, that the Iranians may trust him in negotiations. The White House: The Iranians are 'more reasonable behind the scenes'
GENEVA, March 31 (Reuters) - Discussions are under way for a U.N. investigation into the killing of more than 390 employees in the two-year Gaza war, the head of the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency said on Tuesday, making it the deadliest conflict in the body's history. "I
ROME, March 31 (Reuters) - Italy has denied permission for U.S. military aircraft to land at the Sigonella air base in Sicily before flying to the Middle East, a source close to the matter said on Tuesday, confirming a newspaper report.
JERUSALEM, March 31 (Reuters) - Israel is prepared for "weeks" more of fighting in Iran, a military spokesman said on Tuesday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview the war was "beyond the halfway point." Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani told reporters
By Kentaro Okasaka, Uditha Jayasinghe and Lucy Craymer TOKYO/COLOMBO/WELLINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - Indonesia's leader visited Tokyo this week in Asia's latest flurry of fuel bartering efforts to offset crippling shortages caused by conflict in the Middle East, a key source
Iraq is home to ruins from some of the world's earliest civilisations, but teams led by international archaeologists have been forced by drone and rocket attacks in the Middle East war to cut short their expeditions. Archaeologists told AFP that some of the projects interrupted
US and Israeli strikes hit military facilities in central Iran, damaged a major religious site in the northwest and provoked power cuts Tuesday, after President Donald Trump threatened to blow up the country's oil and energy plants. Video footage verified by AFP showed at least
DUBAI, March 31 (Reuters) - People accused of spying or cooperating with "hostile states" could face the death penalty and confiscation of all assets under a recently enhanced law, an Iranian judiciary spokesperson said, a month into the war with the United States and Israel.
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS, March 31 (Reuters) - European Union governments should prepare for a "prolonged disruption" to energy markets as a result of the Iran war, the bloc's energy chief has told countries' ministers ahead of an emergency meeting on Tuesday. In a letter to
BEIJING, March 31 (Reuters) - China's foreign minister and his Pakistani counterpart will discuss the situationin Iran during the latter's visit to China on Tuesday, China's foreign ministry said. The two countries have similar positions on major international and regional
Iran fired missiles across the Middle East on Tuesday as its capital was hit by fresh explosions, after US President Donald Trump threatened the country's key oil export hub, power stations and desalination plants. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump's partner in
March 31 (Reuters) - The Israeli military said on Tuesday that four of its personnel were killed and two wounded during combat in southern Lebanon. (Reporting by Enas Alashray and Yomna Ehab; Editing by Himani Sarkar)
By Alexander Cornwell, Trevor Hunnicutt and Yomna Ehab TEL AVIV/WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - Iran attacked and set ablaze a fully loaded crude oil tanker off Dubai on Monday, as President Donald Trump warned the U.S. would obliterate Iran's energy plants and oil wells if it
March 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump told aides he is willing to end the military campaign against Iran even if the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed and leave a complex operation to reopen it for a later date, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday,
Iran has denied shooting at its neighbor, but this is not the first time Iranian missiles have entered Turkish airspace
By Jasper Ward WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) - The FBI said on Monday that an attack on the largest Jewish temple in Michigan earlier this month was an "act of terrorism" inspired by Hezbollah.
The FBI said on Monday that a vehicle-ramming attack at a Michigan synagogue earlier this month was an act of terrorism "inspired" by Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. "Based on the evidence gathered to date, we assess this attack to be a Hezbollah-inspired act of terrorism
The White House on Monday defended praying for US troops engaged in the Iran war after Pope Leo XIV warned that God rejects the prayers "of those who wage war." "I don't think there is anything wrong with our military leaders or with the president calling on the American people
March 30 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pronounced his tour of Middle Eastern countries a success on Monday and said a number of security cooperation accords had been clinched or were under discussion. Zelenskiy embarked on a tour of the region to offer
Spanish daily El País first reported the move, saying the U.S. dropped plans to deploy strategic bombers to Spanish bases after talks with Madrid. PM Pedro Sánchez told parliament he rejected a U.S. request to use two bases, calling the war 'illegal'
The UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon said two of its personnel were killed Monday in the second deadly incident in 24 hours in the country's south, where Israel and Hezbollah are fighting. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said two Indonesian peacekeepers
JERUSALEM, March 30 (Reuters) - Israel's parliament passed a law on Monday making the death penalty a default sentence for Palestinians convicted in military court of deadly attacks, seeing through a main pledge by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right allies.
CAIRO, March 30 (Reuters) - The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said two of its members were killed in southern Lebanon on Monday after an explosion of "unknown origin" destroyed their vehicle. It said a third peacekeeper was severely wounded and another was also
BEIRUT, March 30 (Reuters) - A United Nations peacekeeper was killed in southern Lebanon overnight, prompting condemnations on Monday after a bloody weekend in which Lebanese journalists and medics were killed in Israeli strikes. The peacekeeper from Indonesia was the first
WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump would be interested in calling on Arab countries to pay for the cost of the Iran war, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Monday, adding that she thinks Trump would have more to say on the
March 30 (Reuters) - A month into its war with the United States and Israel, Iran is trying to forestall any spark of domestic unrest with arrests, executions and massive street deployments by security forces and supporters, recruiting even children to staff checkpoints. While
By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) - Thousands of soldiers from the U.S. Army's elite 82nd Airborne Division have started arriving in the Middle East, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Monday, as President Donald Trump weighs his next steps in the
The US-Israel strikes against Iran have triggered a series of retaliations and military escalation in the Middle East that have sent shockwaves through global financial markets. The conflict, now more than a month old, has disrupted trade and energy markets, with stocks around
Gulf states and Jordan are aligning more closely as Iranian attacks persist.
There's been a highly unusual flood of condemnations of settler violence against Palestinians, from rabbis to pundits to politicians. But don't confuse their statements with real cracks in Israel's iron wall of support for settlements, expulsion and annexation
Jordanian Prime Minister Jafar Hassan announced Monday that the use of air conditioning and heating equipment in ministries, government departments and public institutions will now be prohibited.
Entire neighborhoods have been destroyed, hospitals are being attacked, and more than a million people have been displaced - but international aid to Lebanon is more limited than ever, and residents are once again realizing that their situation is not being taken into account
G7 economy and finance ministers Monday said they stood ready to take "all necessary measures" to ensure the stability of the energy market as they tackled the economic consequences of war in the Middle East. The United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran in late
Trump wrote earlier Monday that Washington was in talks with A NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME,' adding that 'Great progress has been made,' after sources told the Wall Street Journal on Sunday night he was considering a ground invasion to seize Iran's uranium
According to a New York Times investigation, the U.S. used a long-range Precision Strike Missile, which disperses small lethal pellets across a wide area, in its strike early in the Iran war
ANKARA, March 30 (Reuters) - A ballistic missile launched from Iran entered Turkish airspace before being shot down by NATO air and missile defences deployed in the eastern Mediterranean, Turkey's defence ministry said on Monday. The incident marked the fourth such incident
Turkey said NATO air defenses neutralized a ballistic munition launched from Iran that entered its airspace, marking the fourth such interception since March.
Iran has targeted energy and defense infrastructure in seven Arab countries, killing a worker at a desalination plant in Kuwait. The UAE described a separate attack on a Kuwaiti army base as an 'unprovoked terrorist attack' by Iran
JERUSALEM, March 30 (Reuters) - Israel's parliament is expected on Monday to vote on a bill that would make the death penalty a default sentence for Palestinians convicted in military court of killing Israelis, a measure that Israel's European allies say would unfairly target
Non-Middle Eastern energy firms have been particularly benefiting as energy flows have been choked off from the Gulf.
JERUSALEM, March 30 (Reuters) - An industrial building and a fuel tanker at Israel's Oil Refineries in the northern city of Haifa was hit by debris from an intercepted missile, Israel's Fire and Rescue Service said on Monday. It was not immediately clear whether the missile was
BERLIN, March 30 (Reuters) - Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday that Syrian refugees who found asylum in Germany had an important role to play in rebuilding their country and Berlin would help those that wanted to return. "We are working together to ensure that Syrians
PRAGUE, March 30 (Reuters) - A fifth person was detained in connection with an arson attack on an optics and drone factory in the Czech Republic, a public prosecutor said on Monday. Police said on Saturday they had detained a fourth suspect over the March 20 fire, for which a
US President Trump's latest threat came as Iran's Foreign Ministry slammed the US administration's "excessive, unrealistic and unreasonable" demands.
WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Monday the United States was in talks with a "more reasonable regime" to end the war in Iran but repeated his warning to Tehran to open the Strait of Hormuz or risk U.S attacks on its oil wells and power plants.
CAIRO, March 30 (Reuters) - Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi urged U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday to stop the Iran war, saying only he could do so, and warned that fears of the oil price going above $200 a barrel were not exaggerated. "I tell President Trump:
LONDON, March 30 (Reuters) - Two Chinese container ships sailed through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday at the second attempt after turning back into the Gulf on Friday, ship-tracking data showed. The vessels were sailing in close formation out of the strait and into open