Middle East

Bahrain has put forward a draft U.N. Security Council resolution that would authorise countries to use “all necessary means” – diplomatic language for force – to protect commercial shipping in and ...

Global air travel remains severely disrupted after the war in Iran forced the closure of major Middle Eastern hubs, including Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi, stranding tens of thousands of ...

The United States will continue its strikes on Iran, with the pause applying only to attacks on Tehran’s energy sites, Semafor reported on Monday, citing a U.S. official, ...

Iran launched waves of missiles at Israel on Tuesday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said there had been “very good and productive” talks aiming at halting the ...

Israel should extend its border with Lebanon up to the Litani River deep inside the country’s south, Israel’s finance minister said on Monday as Israeli troops bombed bridges ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer summoned a national emergency meeting on Mondayto deal with the economic fallout from the escalating war in Iran, as Britain’s government borrowing costs surged to ...

Iran denied on Monday that it had engaged in negotiations with the United States, after President Donald Trump postponed a threat to bomb Iran’s power grid because of what ...

Israel said on Monday its own forces had misfired artillery that killed an Israeli farmer near the Lebanese frontier, the first Israeli civilian killed in a border conflict being waged ...

El Al Israel Airlines said on Monday it was reviewing its operations after the Transportation Ministry ordered a reduction of traffic at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv. Israel’s ...

Iran will attack Israel’s power plants and those supplying U.S. bases across the Gulf region if President Donald Trump carries out his threat to “obliterate” Iran’s power ...

Israel’s military has been ordered to destroy all bridges over Lebanon’s Litani River and to step up the demolition of Lebanese homes near the Israeli border, the country’...

U.S. President Donald Trump and Iran threatened to escalate their war by attacking energy facilities in the Gulf, a potential widening of hostilities that could deepen a regional crisis ...

President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if Tehran does not fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, a significant escalation barely a day ...

A British nuclear-powered submarine equipped with Tomahawk cruise missiles has taken position in the Arabian Sea, giving Britain the capability to launch long-range strikes if regional conflict escalates, the Daily ...

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Saturday that there needs to be an “immediate cessation” of what he described as U.S.-Israeli aggression to end the war and ...

Reza Soleimani, a former Iranian water polo player, said he was devastated after learning that 19-year-old wrestler Saleh Mohammadi had been executed for his alleged role in anti-government protests in ...

The war in the Middle East has triggered a nightmare scenario for the global energy system, slashing so much supply that consumers around the world must both pay up big ...

An Iranian man and a Romanian woman have been charged after attempting to enter Britain’s nuclear submarine base in Scotland, Police Scotland said on Saturday. The two, who British ...

President Donald Trump said the U.S. was considering “winding down” its military operation against Iran, as Iran and Israel traded attacks on Saturday and Iranian media said the nuclear ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Iranian leaders on Nowruz and said Moscow remained a loyal friend and reliable partner to Tehran, the Kremlin said on Saturday. The extent of Moscow’...

Israel and Iran attacked each other on Saturday as the U.S. was sending thousands more Marines to the Middle East and President Donald Trump accused NATO allies of cowardice ...

Iran fired two ballistic missiles at the US-UK military base Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported on Saturday. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier ...

The U.S. military is deploying a large amphibious assault ship with thousands of additional Marines and sailors to the Middle East, three U.S. officials told Reuters on Friday, ...

Ukraine has deployed military units to five Middle Eastern countries to help protect critical and civilian infrastructure against drones, Ukrainian security council secretary Rustem Umerov said on Friday after visiting ...