SEOUL, March 6 (Reuters) - South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said on Friday the U.S. and South Korean militaries are discussing the possible redeployment of some U.S. Patriot missile defence systems based in South Korea to be used in the war against Iran. Cho was
COPENHAGEN, March 6 (Reuters) - Maersk, one of the world's biggest container shipping groups, said on Friday it has temporarily suspended two services linking the Middle East to Asia and Europe as the Iran conflict continues to disrupt global supply chains. The Danish group
PARIS, March 6 (Reuters) - Around 50 French ships are currently blocked in the Persian Gulf and another eight in the Red Sea, France's Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot said on Friday, as Paris seeks support to build a coalition of countries to secure shipping traffic in the
Here are the latest main events related to the war in the Middle East: - Israel targets 'regime infrastructure' - Israel said it had launched a wave of strikes on Tehran early Friday, targeting "regime infrastructure" in a "new phase" of the war. AFP journalists in Tehran heard
Asian markets were mixed Friday as the war in the Middle East showed no sign of ending, though there was some reprieve from the surge in oil prices after the United States looked to ease supply concerns. After a torrid week on trading floors, investors were limping into the
By Xinghui Kok, Rae Wee and Yantoultra Ngui SINGAPORE/DUBAI, March 6 (Reuters) - Soon after the first Iranian missile and drone attacks on Dubai last week, two Indian entrepreneurs based there tried to move more than $100,000 each from their local bank accounts to Singapore to
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, March 6 (Reuters) - Israel carried out heavy airstrikes on the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut overnight after ordering its residents to leave, while the Iran-backed group warned Israelis to leave towns and villages at the frontier. Explosions
While the Israeli prime minister gave recorded statements and an interview to Fox News, he has yet to answer questions from the Israeli media or hold a press conference. By contrast, President Trump granted interviews to U.S. outlets and responded directly to reporters' questions
The Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court also canceled the house arrest and restrictive conditions imposed by the police. 'It is unacceptable that the fact that a person has a different opinion, however extreme, grants authorities the right to carry out unlawful actions,' the ruling said
The girls' school in Minab, in southern Iran, was hit on Saturday during the first day of U.S. and Israeli attacks on the country. Iran's ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva, Ali Bahreini, said the strike killed 150 students. Reuters could not independently confirm the death toll
By Jeslyn Lerh SINGAPORE, March 6 (Reuters) - Fuel oil traders in Asia are struggling to secure alternative supply as the Iran war curtails shipments from key Middle Eastern suppliers through the Strait of Hormuz, prompting them to look to the West for replacement cargoes.
JAKARTA, March 6 (Reuters) - Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto has reassured local Islamic groups that he will withdraw from U.S. President Donald Trump's 'Board of Peace' if the platform does not benefit Palestinians, a government statement said on Friday. The
Fresh strikes rocked Iran and Lebanon on Friday, as Israel vowed to escalate to a new phase in the Middle East war that has spiralled rapidly throughout the region and beyond. AFPTV images from Beirut's southern suburbs showed mangled buildings and burned-out vehicles after
Heavy attacks were reported in Tehran on Friday after Israel said it was hitting "regime infrastructure" in a "new phase" of the war it launched with the United States against Iran. As the conflict entered its seventh day, its regional repercussions continued -- with Qatar
By Parisa Hafezi and Steve Holland DUBAI/WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump encouraged Iranian Kurdish forces in Iraq to launch attacks against Iran as the Middle East conflict widened, with Azerbaijan warning it would retaliate for being targeted by
By Julie Zhu HONG KONG, March 6 (Reuters) - Emirates and Etihad Airways were resuming limited flight schedules to key global cities from their United Arab Emirates hubs on Friday, though the ongoing threat of missile fire piled pressure on airlines as they scramble to
By Steve Holland, Jarrett Renshaw, Nandita Bose and Bo Erickson WASHINGTON, March 5 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was not concerned about rising U.S. gas prices driven by the widening Iran conflict, telling Reuters in an exclusive interview that the
March 6 (Reuters) - Lebanon's Hezbollah warned Israeli residents to evacuate towns within 5 km (3.11 miles) of the border between the countries in a message posted on its Telegram channel in Hebrew early on Friday. Hezbollah's message came less than a day after Israel warned
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali March 5 (Reuters) - U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reached a final conclusion or
(Fixes typo in headline) SYDNEY, March 6 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday that three Australian defence personnel were on board a United States submarine that sank an Iranian warship with a torpedo in the Indian Ocean, but stressed they did not take
The latest Iranian missile barrage sparked a wave of explosions across Tel Aviv as firefighters worked to contain a blaze at a residential building near Israel's commercial hub on Friday. The blasts came after Israel expanded its campaign against Hezbollah, vowing retribution
US Central Command (CENTCOM) has devised plans to prevent Iran’s remaining enriched uranium from being weaponized by remnants of the Iranian regime, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested.
TAMPA, Florida, March 5 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Thursday the United States was not expanding its military objectives in Iran, after President Donald Trump told Reuters that the United States must be involved in choosing the next leader of Iran.
WASHINGTON, March 5 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Thursday said Tehran was reaching out to the United States about making a deal amid U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, adding that further action to reduce pressure on oil was imminent. "They're calling, they're saying
When the United States fought the 1991 Gulf War, president George H.W. Bush boasted of building a broad coalition unseen in decades. When his son attacked Iraq in 2003, he faced wide criticism but secured several steadfast US allies. Now, a generation later, President Donald
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, March 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives rejected an effort on Thursday to stop President Donald Trump's air war on Iran and require that any hostilities against Iran be authorized by Congress, backing the Republican president's
March 5 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he wants to finish the war in Iran first, but then it "will be just a question of time before you and a lot of unbelievable people are going to be going back to Cuba." Trump, speaking at an event with the Inter
By Feras Dalatey DAMASCUS, March 5 (Reuters) - Syria has opened a newly reactivated air corridor from the northern city of Aleppo toward the Mediterranean Sea for use by foreign airlines as well as its national carrier, the head of the country’s Civil Aviation Authority told
Speaking to several news outlets, Trump said that with the likely successor, Mojtaba Khamene, seen as the frontrunner, 'They are wasting their time' as he is 'a lightweight,' adding that the U.S. wants 'to be involved in the process so we don't have to go back every five years'
KYIV, March 5 (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that Ukraine would provide assistance to the U.S. in response to its request for help in dealing with Iranian drones in the Middle East. Tehran has fired hundreds of drones at U.S. targets in neighboring
Social media influencers have long boasted of feeling safer in the United Arab Emirates than in their home countries. Some content creators are doubling down, even as Iran targets the Gulf – and the UAE tightens its grip
War has emptied the usually traffic-jammed streets of Iran's capital, but Islamic republic authorities have filled them with checkpoints and security forces as they tighten their grip on the population. After the United States and Israel launched a war against Iran on Saturday,
Fleeing north, ordinary Lebanese say Hezbollah's strike on Israel has dragged their country into a war not of their choosing
MADRID, March 5 (Reuters) - The Middle East conflict will have "immediate repercussions" for European Union security with an increased threat of terrorism, serious and organised crime as well as violent extremism and cyberattacks, European police body Europol told Spanish news
In the U.S. president's vision for the Middle East, his goal for Iran mirrors his approach to Venezuela: Installing a compliant regime that aligns with American economic interests. Democracy is not part of the plan, and neither are Israel's long-term interests
WASHINGTON, March 5 (Reuters) - The United States has suspended operations at its embassy in Kuwait City, the State Department said in a statement on Thursday, amid U.S. and Israeli strikes against Iran. (Reporting by Bhargav Acharya; Writing by Daphne Psaledakis; Editing by
JERUSALEM, March 5 (Reuters) - Israel took the decision to kill Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in November and was planning to carry out the operation around six months later, Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Thursday. Khamenei was killed in the first hours of the
ZURICH, March 5 (Reuters) - Iran is seeking to escalate the conflict in the Middle East by attacking other countries in the region indiscriminately, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Thursday. "Iran is an exporter of war," Kallas told reporters at a press conference
The Middle East war unleashed by US-Israeli attacks on Iran has swelled outwards to Cyprus, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Azerbaijan, and risks drawing more countries into the conflict. The United States and Israel initiated the war by launching strikes on Iran and killing its supreme
US military support jets have been allowed to use a French air base, the French military said Thursday, adding it had "full guarantees" they were not involved in Iran strikes. The announcement came after President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday said that US-Israel military
Iran attacks in the Gulf states targeted U.S. bases and infrastructure, but also hit hotels, shopping centers and residential buildings – on a far larger scale than its assault on Israel. According to official data, the vast majority of the missiles and drones were intercepted
By Max Hunder KYIV, March 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. and Qatar are in discussions with Kyiv about acquiring Ukrainian interceptor drones as a cheap alternative to down Iranian Shahed UAVs amid the war in the Gulf, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. The early-stage
March 5 (Reuters) - NATO has increased its alliance-wide ballistic missile defence posture following the intercept of a missile from Iran targeted at Turkey, its military headquarters said on Thursday. The posture will remain at the heightened level until the threat from Iran's
Britain is sending additional fighter jets to Qatar amid the widening war in the Middle East, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Thursday as his defence minister visited Cyprus. The four Typhoon planes will join an existing UK squadron in the Gulf state "to strengthen our
JERUSALEM, March 5 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday called again on Israel's president to grant Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a pardon for corruption charges, saying the premier should have nothing on his mind but the war with Iran.
PARIS, March 5 (Reuters) - France will strengthen its cooperation with the Lebanese Armed Forces and provide them with armored transport vehicles as well as operational and logistical support, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday, as Lebanon was pulled deeper into
By Simon Lewis WASHINGTON, March 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Thursday it was ramping up the provision of charter flights from the Middle East after criticism over the Trump administration's planning and initial assistance to U.S. citizens trying to leave the
Despite renewed fighting with the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah just over the border, the mood was almost normal Thursday on the main street of Kiryat Shmona, a small town in northern Israel. Unlike during the last war with the Iran-backed movement, when the town was evacuated
WASHINGTON, March 5 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump told Reuters in a telephone interview on Thursday that the United States will have a role in choosing Iran's next leader. Trump said it was very early in the process of picking a new leader but that Ayatollah Ali