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The US president wanted an easy win, but the conflict is spiralling following Israel’s attack on a gas field and Iranian retaliation across the region
FIFA President Gianni Infantino speaks during a Board of Peace meeting at the U.S. Institute of Peace, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Un anciano ata un cilindro de gas a su scooter tras recogerlo de un almacén en Nueva Delhi, el jueves 19 de marzo de 2026. (AP Foto/Manish Swarup)
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After the assassination of Ali Larijani, the powerful secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, questions have emerged over who will lead the country.
Residents watch and take pictures as flames and smoke rise from an oil storage facility struck as attacks hit the city during the U.S.–Israeli military campaign in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, March 7, 2026. (Alireza Sotakbar/ISNA via AP)
Israel says an oil refinery in the northern city of Haifa has been struck in an Iranian missile attack, but no “significant” damage was reported, as Tehran continues to retaliate across the region for strikes on its energy infrastructure.
Oil prices climbed again because of the war with Iran, tightening their grip on the global economy and sending stock markets lower around the world.
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the country will exercise "zero restraint" if its energy sites are targeted again.
United States President Donald Trump has told Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi he expects her country to “step up” to assist with securing the Strait of Hormuz amid the US- and Israeli-led war against Iran.
WASHINGTON — When President Donald Trump returned to office last year, he launched a crusade to shift the country away from renewable energy, drastically undoing the climate-friendly policies of his Democratic predecessor to focus instead on oil and other fossil fuels as the answer to his goal of American energy dom…
The aggression launched by the United States and Israel against Iran has produced a striking strategic paradox. While the American-Zionist axis relies on brute technological force and indiscriminate fire, it remains blind to the historical and sociopolitical realities of the region.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday praised Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and said he believed Japan is “stepping up to the plate” on Iran, as the two held closely watched talks at the White House on Thursday,
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, saluda a la coronela Matha “Jeannie” Sasnett, comandante de Asuntos Mortuorios de la Fuerza Aérea, al llegar en el Air Force One, el miércoles 18 de marzo de 2026, a la base Dover de la Fuerza Aérea, en Delaware, para asistir al regreso de los restos de los seis miembro…
Prices for metals fell sharply across the board Thursday as investors worried about the impact rising oil prices due to the U.S.-Iran war will have on the global economy.
President Trump claimed Thursday he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop attacking Iran’s gas and oil fields.
Two leaders tout bilateral relationship and pledge to work cooperatively on trade despite Trump joke about Pearl Harbour
Belarus freed 250 political prisoners on Thursday following negotiations with the United States, while Washington agreed to remove sanctions on several Belarusian companies in return, a U.S. official said.
Crude oil prices would need to jump to roughly $138 a barrel amid the war on Iran and stay there for at least a few weeks to put the US at a serious risk of a recession, according to a new survey of economists released Thursday.
Iran executed a 19-year-old champion wrestler in a public hanging Thursday along with two other people who were arrested during the brutal crackdown of anti-regime protesters in January.
Iranian attacks on Qatar have wiped out 17 percent of its liquefied natural gas (LNG) export capacity, causing an estimated $20bn in lost annual revenue and threatening supplies to Europe and Asia, QatarEnergy’s CEO says.
Several European nations and Japan have issued a joint statement saying they would take steps to stabilise energy markets, a day after several strikes on energy facilities in the Gulf region sent oil and gas prices soaring amid the United States-Israel war on Iran.
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The shutdown of the internet in Iran is now the longest in its history, according to a monitor.
This would be the first time Iran has hit one of the US$100 million planes since the US and Israel launched their attack in February
Qatar called for an “immediate” end to the US-Israeli war on Iran, becoming the first major Gulf energy producer to explicitly call for a halt to the conflict without conditions.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — United States President Donald Trump may use a White House meeting with Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Thursday to press for help in the war on Iran, placing her in an awkward position as Tokyo weighs how much support it can provide.
THE presidency of Barack Obama was supposed to improve relations by signaling American willingness to engage Iran. Ahmadinejad, however, took advantage of the opportunity to air a laundry list of grievances against the United States. According to an NPR (National Public Radio) news report in 2009:
A sharp drop in Iranian gas flows to Turkey following Israel's strike on the South Pars gas field and Tehran's retaliatory attacks across the Gulf has raised energy security concerns. But analysts say Ankara will likely be able to cushion the blow.
Europe's sovereign bonds are facing "a perfect storm" after new inflation fears sparked by the Iran conflict forced the region's central banks to signal a new course for interest rates on Thursday, sending yields soaring.
Hackers targeted an Orthodox Jewish news publication after US officials warned of Iran-aligned cyber-attacks when the war in the Mideast country got underway last month.
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Attacks on facilities by both sides in the conflict this week threaten grave consequences for the global economy
Palestinians inspect the damage at a beauty salon after a deadly Iranian strike in the West Bank village of Beit Awa, near Hebron, Thursday, March 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Foreign minister claims Israel convinced Donald Trump to make ‘grave miscalculation’ of waging war on Iran
The US has been drawn by Israel into an “unlawful war” against Iran and needs help to disengage, Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi has said.
There are reports of fire and falling debris in Haifa following a strike by an Iranian missile on an oil refinery, according to Israeli media.
The Pentagon is seeking an additional $200bn from Congress to fund the United States-Israel war with Iran, a conflict Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warns has no “timeframe” for ending.
The leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands and United Kingdom have issued a joint statement condemning Iran’s overnight attacks on its Arab neighbors’ energy infrastructure.
Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed has urged for an immediate cessation of hostilities in the region and said “trust must be restored” in a press conference alongside Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran intensified its attacks on oil and natural gas facilities around the Gulf on Thursday, raising the stakes in a war that is sending shock waves through the global economy.
The war in the Middle East could pose a threat to the semiconductor industry and other sectors dependent on a resource produced in the Gulf — helium.
（德國之聲中文網）一名伊朗議員表示，德黑蘭領導人正在考慮對途經霍爾木茲海峽的船隻徵收通行費。伊朗新任最高領袖穆傑塔巴‧哈梅內伊(Mojtaba Khamenei)的一名發言人也說，徵收通行費實際上可以起到制裁西方的作用。哈梅內伊的顧問穆赫貝爾(Mohammad Mokhber)說：「在當前這場強加於伊朗的戰爭結束後，隨著霍爾木茲海峽新秩序的建立，伊朗將從一個受制裁的國家轉變為該地區乃至世界範圍內日益強大的力量。我們將制裁那些企圖利用霍爾木茲海峽進行霸權擴張、阻撓其船隻通行的傲慢勢力。」
By Murad Sadygzade, President of the Middle East Studies Center, Visiting Lecturer, HSE University (Moscow).
Major international airlines are continuing to suspend flights to Israel amid the country’s ongoing war with Iran.
US defense secretary suggests Thursday will be ‘largest strike package yet … death and destruction from above’
Mehdi Taj says his country ‘will be preparing for the World Cup’, with Mexico’s leader saying her country was prepared to host Iran’s matches