Russia says US attacked Iran on false pretext
Russia accused the United States on Wednesday of using an imaginary threat from Iran as a pretext to overthrow its constitutional order, and said Washington’s calls for Iranians to ...
First UK repatriation flight to leave Oman on Wednesday
A British chartered flight will leave Oman on Wednesday evening, prioritising vulnerable UK nationals who want to leave the region after the outbreak of conflict in the Middle East, the ...
Israel orders evacuation of swathe of south Lebanon
The Israeli military ordered the evacuation of a swathe of southern Lebanon on Wednesday, telling residents to move north of the Litani River on a third day of full-blown hostilities ...
Khamenei’s son Mojtaba is alive and favoured to succeed him, Iranian sources say
Mojtaba Khamenei, the powerful son of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, is alive and favoured to emerge as his father’s successor, two Iranian sources told Reuters on ...
Spain’s Sanchez to Trump: ‘You cannot play Russian roulette with the destiny of millions’
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Wednesday doubled down on his opposition to the attack on Iran by the United States and Israel, warning that the conflict risked triggering a ...
Iranians to bid farewell to late Supreme Leader Khamenei at Tehran ceremony
Iranians will bid farewell to late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a ceremony in Tehran late on Wednesday, a senior Iranian official told state media.
Hojjatoleslam Mahmoudi, head of ...
US strike on Iran ‘ahead of game plan’ but global markets rattled, energy prices soar
U.S. forces continued a round-the-clock assault on Iran and Israel mounted a “broad wave” of strikes on Wednesday targeting Iranian missile sites and air defence systems in a campaign ...
Tehran and Beirut judder from US-Israeli attacks as oil soars, shares slide
Explosions tore through Tehran and Beirut on Tuesday and stock markets around the world tumbled while oil prices soared at the prospect of a prolonged disruption to global energy supplies ...
Russia says war could backfire by spurring Iran and Arab nations to seek nuclear weapons
Russia warned on Tuesday that the war launched by the U.S. and Israel against Iran could result in the very outcome they were seeking to prevent, by spurring both ...
Passengers scrambling to find flights, routes, out of Middle East
Airline stocks in Asia and Europe extended losses on Tuesday as the U.S. and Israeli air war against Iran escalated, with carriers monitoring fuel price spikes and passengers scrambling ...
Drone hits fuel tank at Oman’s Duqm port
A fuel tank at Oman’s Duqm commercial port was hit on Tuesday when the facility came under attack from several unmanned aircraft, the state news agency said, citing a ...
Trump signals extended war as regional tensions explode
The US and Israeli air war against Iran widened, with no end in sight as Israel attacked Lebanon in response to strikes by Hezbollah and Iran kept up its attacks ...
US orders some diplomatic staff to leave Middle East as Iran conflict escalates
The U.S. on Tuesday ordered non-emergency government personnel and their family members to leave Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq and Jordan and closed several diplomatic missions across the region as ...
Trump seeks to justify Iran war, but stated objectives shift
President Donald Trump on Monday sought to justify a broad, open-ended war on Iran, offering his most extensive public comments yet on an operation whose stated aims and timeline have ...
Trump: big wave in war with Iran yet to come
The ‘big wave’ is yet to come in the war with Iran, U.S. President Donald Trump told CNN on Monday, adding that Washington did not know who the country’...
Iran conflict widens to Lebanon, Kuwait mistakenly shoots down US jets
The U.S.-Israeli air war against Iran expanded on Monday with no end in sight, with Israel attacking Lebanon in response to strikes by Hezbollah, and Tehran firing missiles ...
US not veering into a new, endless war, Pentagon says
The Pentagon played down concerns on Monday that the U.S. attack on Iran risked plunging the United States into a new, open-ended conflict in the Middle East, even as ...
Hundreds of Iranians cross border into Turkey, witness says
Hundreds of Iranians crossed the border into Turkey on Monday afternoon as the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran expanded, a Reuters witness said, with those arriving speaking of fear ...
Global shipping disrupted as tankers stranded, damaged
Insurance companies are cancelling war risk coverage for vessels in the Gulf as the widening Iran conflict disrupted shipping, leaving at least four tankers damaged, a seafarer killed and 150 ships ...
Major Saudi refinery, Iraqi Kurdish and Israeli oil, gas fields shut amid Mideast strikes
Saudi Arabia shut its biggest domestic oil refinery on Monday after a drone strike, a source said, as Israeli and U.S. strikes and Iranian retaliation triggered precautionary shutdowns of ...
Travel stocks tumble as war sparks worst disruption since pandemic
Travel shares tumbled on Monday as escalating conflict between the U.S., Israel and Iran disrupted flights worldwide, forced the closure of key Middle Eastern hubs and sent oil prices ...
Kuwait shoots down US jets in friendly-fire incident
Kuwait’s air defences mistakenly shot down three U.S. F-15 fighter jets during active combat on Monday, U.S. Central Command said on Monday, describing it as an apparent ...
Kremlin in constant contact with Iran’s leaders over ‘outright aggression’
The Kremlin said on Monday that Russia was in constant contact with the Iranian leadership about what it called the “outright aggression” against Tehran and was deeply disappointed by how ...
Gulf economies face sharpest disruption since the pandemic
Iran’s retaliatory strikes across the Gulf have triggered the most widespread business disruption in the region since the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing airport closures, halting port operations and sending shockwaves ...