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The International Energy Agency on Wednesday agreed to release 400 million barrels of oil to address the supply disruption triggered by the Iran war, the largest such action in the organization's history.
Washington has dropped a multibillion dollar case against Turkish state lender Halkbank for violating sanctions against Iran after Ankara helped secure the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in 2025.
RSPCA say animals could become ‘hidden victims’ of conflict as charities in Gulf city report being overwhelmed
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth reportedly gutted Pentagon oversight offices that would normally help investigate the deadly US strike on an Iranian girls’ school that killed at least 170 people last month, according to a Politico report.
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth reportedly gutted Pentagon oversight offices that would normally help investigate the deadly US strike on an Iranian girls’ school that killed at least 170 people last month, according to a Politico report.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said the US-Israeli strikes on Iran would go on "as long as necessary", insisting the strikes had inflicted heavy casualties on Tehran's forces.
SYDNEY, Australia — Iranian women footballers claiming asylum in Australia evacuated from their safe house on Wednesday after one team member changed her mind and revealed their location to the Iranian embassy, Canberra said.
Within hours of the United States-Israeli attacks on Iran, US assets in Iraq’s Kurdistan region came under retaliatory attacks from Tehran-backed groups, dragging the country into the conflict that has since expanded across the Middle East and beyond.
Some US taxpayers are refusing to pay the federal government amid ICE surges, the war with Iran and more
Inflation held steady in February ahead of the war in Iran, though economists are concerned that energy shocks from the conflict could ripple across the economy – complicating the Fed’s path to interest rate cuts.
Newly-appointed supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei was "lightly injured" but is continuing to operate, an Iranian official told Reuters on Wednesday.
Alireza Salarian says Iran’s new supreme leader was lucky to survive strike that killed six of his family members
The EU has approved new sanctions on 19 Iranian officials and entities, its foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Wednesday, citing "serious human rights violations" during Tehran's deadly crackdown on mass protests.
The Spanish government has decided to withdraw its ambassador to Israel, according to the official state gazette.
Ships were seen lining up in front of Ras Al-Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday as Iran disrupted traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
Shrapnel killed a woman following a strike on an arms depot belonging to an Iran-backed armed group in central Iraq, health and security officials told AFP.
Prices consumers pay for a broad range of goods and services rose in line with expectations for February, offering a final look at inflation pressures before an oil shock tied to the Iran war rattled the outlook.
AI data centres, financial hubs and tourism are not peripheral to the Gulf’s growth; they are central to both opportunity and vulnerability
Spain has decided to remove its ambassador to Israel, the official state gazette said on Wednesday.
When the Turkish arms company Repkon announced that it was entering the US market in late 2024, the move was hailed by both the Turkish government and the defence industry.
Tech companies have been funnelling billions of dollars into AI infrastructure projects in the Middle East over the past few years, drawn in by cheap and readily available energy and land, alongside local government support.
Recent attack on plants led to fears of escalating strikes, but Iran knows drought has left it equally vulnerable
Defence technology company says its Jingqi monitoring system detected communications after bombing mission
Iran's military on Wednesday vowed to strike US and Israeli banks and economic centres in the region, after overnight attacks hit a bank in Tehran.
Carteles con el precio de combustible en una gasolinera, el martes 10 de 2026 en Nueva York. (AP Foto/Yuki Iwamura)
The EU must not abandon plans to ditch Russian oil and gas, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said, as the war in Iran causes a painful supply crunch.
Motorists around the globe are already feeling the impact of the United States and Israel’s war on Iran, with fuel prices sharply rising since the war began.
Fishermen work in front of oil tankers south of the Strait of Hormuz Jan. 19, 2012, offshore the town of Ras Al Khaimah in United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)
The Iranian Embassy in Seoul has put up a banner bearing the image of the late former leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and accusing "war criminals," sources said Wednesday.
The U.S. achieved a quick victory when its first strikes on Iran killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's supreme leader for nearly 37 years.
Iran on Wednesday accused the United States and Israel of striking a maritime ambulance boat at an island in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, local media reported.
The International Energy Agency is expected to push for a record 400 million barrels of oil to be released to try to restrain soaring prices due to the Iran war.
Pope Leo on Wednesday lamented the death of numerous civilians in the Iran war and also expressed closeness to people in Lebanon, saying the country, targeted by Israeli strikes, was going through a "great trial."
The US is “not worth fighting for” if it was behind the attack on an Iranian school that killed more than 160 people but refuses to admit responsibility, American journalist Tucker Carlson has said.Speaking during a podcast on his YouTube channel on Tuesday,
The United States is “not worth fighting for” if it carried out the bombing of an Iranian school but refuses to admit responsibility, American journalist Tucker Carlson has said.
Smoke rises after an Iranian drone attack in the port area of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has threatened to attack “economic centres and banks” related to United States and Israeli entities in the region after what it called an attack on an Iranian bank, with the war in its 12th day.
The US-Israel war on Iran has rapidly deteriorated into a regional crisis, dragging the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states into a war they did not seek.
The skies over Tehran were black with oil smoke last weekend, and the streets were on fire after Israel bombed oil storage depots in the capital. These attacks put toxic fumes into the air that clung to the throats and lungs of millions of Tehran’s citizens.
President Donald Trump speaks at the Republican Members Issues Conference, Monday, March 9, 2026, at Trump National Doral Miami in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Iranian authorities say a number of hospitals have been temporarily put out of service and thousands of civilians affected by the ongoing war with the United States and Israel, as Tehran also escalates attacks across the region.
US President Donald Trump has said Iran is welcome to take part in the upcoming FIFA World Cup, despite the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) is to recommend the release of 400 million barrels of oil, the largest such move in IEA history, three sources said on Wednesday, to try to restrain soaring crude prices amid the US-Israeli war with Iran.
Iran’s newly appointed Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was a no-show at his own succession rally in Tehran — and observers speculate that he’s either wounded or hiding out in fear.
It’s called the Dahiya doctrine – and the IDF and US air force are using it to destroy domestic support in Iran
Iran will target banks and economic centres in the region, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni condemned on Wednesday a deadly missile strike on a school in Iran early in the Middle East war, calling for those responsible to be identified.
Una columna de humo se eleva tras un ataque en Teherán, Irán, el lunes 2 de marzo de 2026. (AP Foto/Mohsen Ganji, Archivo)