March 17 (Reuters) - Rosatom, Russia's state nuclear energy corporation, condemned a strike on the territory of Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant on Tuesday and called for de-escalation around the facility. "We categorically condemn what has occurred and call on all sides in
Joe Kent, the first senior U.S. to resign over the Iran war, claimed that Israel and its lobby deceived Trump into war
March 17 (Reuters) - Ali Larijani, a senior adviser to Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been killed at the age of 67 by a U.S.-Israeli air attack in Tehran, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency said on Tuesday. Following are some facts about Larijani:
Argentina's President Javier Milei on Tuesday slammed Iran and reiterated his support for the United States and Israel as he attended an event commemorating a deadly attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires some thirty years ago. The bombing on March 17, 1992 involved a
By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) - The U.S. aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford, deployed in operations against Iran, is expected to temporarily pull into port after a fire on board, U.S. officials said on Tuesday, the 18th day of the war with Tehran.
March 17 (Reuters) - Veteran Iranian politician Ali Larijani was one of the most powerful figures in the Islamic Republic, an architect of its security policy, and a close adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei until the supreme leader's death in an airstrike last month. He has been
The USS Gerald R. Ford -- the world's largest aircraft carrier -- is playing a key role in the US-Israeli war against Iran, but has suffered problems during its extended deployment. The carrier has now been at sea for almost nine months and will reportedly soon set sail for the
Sources tell The Wall Street Journal that Russian satellite imagery and drone guidance have enabled Iran to carry out more precise strikes on radar and missile systems in the Gulf, while analysts note the support mirrors intelligence Western nations have shared with Ukraine
March 17 (Reuters) - Iran's security chief Ali Larijani has been killed, Iranian media confirmed on Tuesday. (Reporting by Yomna Ehab, Editing by Franklin Paul)
The IRGC, already strengthened by its central role in the war and its ties to newly appointed Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, may consolidate further influence over security and foreign policy.
The IRGC, already strengthened by its central role in the war and its ties to newly appointed Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, may consolidate further influence over security and foreign policy.
Qatari official says region will 'live with the consequences' of a war it didn't choose. He urges stronger deterrence, closer cooperation with Europe and warns that unchecked Israeli and Iranian "hegemony" risks repeated regional wars
By John Irish PARIS, March 17 (Reuters) - Initial findings by an internal U.N. inquiry suggest Israeli tank fire hit a U.N. position in southern Lebanon on March 6, wounding Ghanaian peacekeepers, according to a Western military source, underscoring the growing risks as Israeli
Built around the notion of resistance to the Israeli occupation in southern Lebanon, the rise of Hezbollah manifested the strategic failure of the 1982 Lebanon War. But now the option of prolonged presence in southern Lebanon is surging again within Israeli discourse
The journalist, who had been with Al Jazeera since its inception in 1996, presented its first broadcast. He had many fans but also attracted his fair share of detractors, thanks to his strong opinions on Palestine and other regional issues
By Maggie Michael TEHRAN, March 17 (Reuters) - As U.S. and Israeli air strikes pound Tehran, Iranian rescue workers are braving the risk of secondary attacks and say they are suffering trauma from the horror of pulling dead children from the rubble. The rescue teams are
By Patricia Zengerle and Michael Martina WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) - The war on Iran has not delayed shipments of weapons to Taiwan or changed U.S. policy toward the island, officials from President Donald Trump's administration told members of Congress on Tuesday, despite
BAGHDAD, March 17 (Reuters) - Rocket and drone attacks on the U.S. embassy and a diplomatic facility in Iraq resumed on Tuesday after a series of earlier strikes the same day, security sources said. Rockets and an explosive drone targeted the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad,
The Iranian women's national football team landed at Istanbul Airport on Tuesday after several members of the delegation withdrew their asylum bids in Australia and decided to return home. Footage from Turkish news agency DHA showed the players, wearing Iranian national team
Iran is selecting ships from friendly countries to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial trade waterway cut off by the Middle East war, data trackers indicated Tuesday. Tehran's forces have closed off the waterway, through which a fifth of the world's oil and liquefied
US President Donald Trump lashed out Tuesday at "foolish" NATO over Iran, saying the United States needs no help after allies rebuffed his calls to join efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Trump said most US allies had rejected his push to escort ships through the crucial
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's attempt to gain support by warring with Iran and Hezbollah ahead of elections is already backfiring. What happens when his base realizes the repeated promises of 'total victory' were a lie?
The aid announcement comes as President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his late March visit to China would be postponed.
March 17 (Reuters) - A diplomatic adviser to the UAE president, Anwar Gargash, said on Tuesday that his country could join an international effort led by the U.S. to ensure the safety and security of the Strait of Hormuz. Speaking in an online event organised by the American
By Alexander Cornwell JERUSALEM, March 17 (Reuters) - Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Tuesday the country had effectively won its war with Iran, but gave no indication of when the conflict might end, saying only that the campaign would continue until its objectives
Thousands of seafarers face dwindling supplies of fuel and water as they wait on board, stranded by the Middle East war, a key shipping body warned Tuesday as it urged governments to help get maritime traffic flowing again. John Stawpert is marine director of the London-based
The head of the US National Counterterrorism Center’s departure is the latest sign of waning influence among the administration’s anti-war MAGA figures amid the conflict with Iran.
LONDON, March 17 (Reuters) - The British government on Tuesday opened an inquiry into how details of a top-secret national security meeting to discuss a U.S. request to use British military bases at the start of the Iran conflict were leaked to a journalist. British Prime
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) - President Donald Trumpon Tuesday said he was postponing a highly anticipated trip to Beijing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping as the war with Iran upends U.S. foreign policy and delays an effort to ease tensions
An extra 45 million people could face acute hunger if the Middle East war rages on beyond June, swelling the number worldwide to a "terrible" high, the United Nations warned Tuesday. The war, now in its third week, and its shockwaves on food and fuel costs could price families
By Feras Dalatey , Maya Gebeily and Timour Azhari DAMASCUS, March 17 (Reuters) - The United States has encouraged Syria to consider sending forces into eastern Lebanon to help disarm Hezbollah, but Damascus is reluctant to embark on such a mission for fear of being sucked into
BERLIN, March 17 (Reuters) - More than 36,000 Palestinians in the West Bank were forcibly displaced over a year by Israeli settlement expansion and associated violence, the U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday. The United Nations said in a report covering 12 months to
ANKARA, March 17 (Reuters) - Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan reiterated that Turkey is ready to host the next round of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, during a phone call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday, Turkey's foreign ministry said. Fidan
March 17 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the U.S. had been informed by most of its NATO allies that they did not want to get involved with the country's military operation in Iran. "Because of the fact that we have had such Military Success, we no longer
By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO, March 17 (Reuters) - Slovenia's prime minister on Tuesday accused "foreign services" of interfering in Sunday's election after a report alleged officials from Israeli private spy firm Black Cube visited the country in December and met the main
By Dan Peleschuk March 17 (Reuters) - Streaking across the sky with a terrifying wail, a Ukrainian-made quadrocopter swerves with unlikely agility for a device resembling a winged lava lamp. Once a long-shot concept, the interceptor drone developed by private firm Wild Hornets
PARIS, March 17 (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron said France would never take part in operations to unblock the Strait of Hormuz, and that France was carrying on with work to prepare a coalition that could provide freedom of navigation once hostilities ended. "We are not
AMSTERDAM, March 17 (Reuters) - The Netherlands is investigating whether Iran was involved in the attack on a Rotterdam synagogue on Friday, Justice Minister David van Weel has said, adding that the suspects apprehended for the attack had most likely been recruited. "The
MEXICO CITY, March 17 (Reuters) - Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Tuesday that her country would have no problem hosting Iran's matches in the 2026 World Cup, if soccer governing body FIFA agrees. Iran's football federation has asked FIFA to move their World Cup
The new rule has added to concern over the socially conservative Islamist underpinnings of Syria's new leadership.
A senior US counterterrorism official resigned on Tuesday to protest the US-Israeli war against Iran and said the Islamic Republic posed no imminent threat to the United States. "I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran," Joseph Kent, the director of the
The four youths arrested on suspicion of detonating an explosive device outside a Rotterdam synagogue were probably "recruited", the Dutch justice minister said Tuesday, with investigators probing possible links to Iran. The attack on the synagogue in the early hours of Friday
Lebanon pledged its full cooperation with Kuwait after the arrests and praised the Gulf state's actions.
In his first foreign policy session in office, Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei presented an extremely stern stance against 'reducing tensions' in the conflict: not 'until the United States and Israel are brought to their knees'
Iranian officials have said that, since U.S. President Trump himself stated he could not ensure the Iranian team's safety, they have asked FIFA to move their games to Mexico, a 2026 World Cup co-host
DUBAI, March 17 (Reuters) - Iran arrested 10 foreigners among dozens rounded up on suspicion of collaborating with Israel and the U.S., Iranian media said on Tuesday, as officials warned people to stay at home during a festival that they said could be exploited by "the enemy".
No explosions, few police checks and well-stocked shops: in the relaxed Caspian Sea resorts where many Tehran residents have fled, the ongoing war seems far away. "It seems as though people barely realise that there's a war happening," said an Iranian woman in her thirties, who
By May Angel and Tristan Veyet LONDON, March 16 (Reuters) - As the U.S.-Israel war with Iran enters its third week, analysts warn it is severely disrupting fertiliser markets and endangering food security for developing countries in the near term. Here is how the conflict is
From sea turtles to birds and the gentle dugong, the Persian Gulf's diverse but fragile marine life is threatened by the bombs and oil of the war in the Middle East. The ecosystem was already under pressure from climate change and maritime traffic before the United States and