Archives for March, 2026

European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and European Commission Vice-President Kaja Kallas attends a press conference in Krakow, Poland, February 20, 2026. REUTERS/Kuba Stezycki

Gulf countries concerned about risk of Iran civil war, says EU's foreign chief

Reuters

FILE PHOTO: Turkish Defence Minister Yasar Guler attends a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, as a part of a NATO Defence Ministers' meeting at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium June 4, 2025. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo

Turkey says it is closely following actions of Iranian Kurdish PJAK militant group

Reuters

Police and paramilitary soldiers stand guard outside the U.S. Consulate General, days after a protest following the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in U.S. and Israeli strikes on Saturday, in Karachi, Pakistan, March 5, 2026. Picture taken with a mobile phone. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

Analysis-Anger among Pakistan's Shi'ites underlines its Iran-U.S. tightrope walk

Reuters

French president Emmanuel Macron (C) reviews the troops as he visits the French military base in Djibouti in 2019

Africa 'exposed' to Middle East war

Agence France-Presse

A man checks the local newspaper, follwoing a submarine attack on the Iranian military ship, IRIS Dena, off the coast of Sri Lanka, in Galle, Sri Lanka, March 5, 2026. REUTERS/Thilina Kaluthotage

Sri Lanka says trying to 'safeguard lives' on another Iranian ship off its coast

Reuters

Children play around an unexploded missile that landed in an open field on the outskirts of Qamishli, eastern Syria

War in the Middle East: latest developments

Agence France-Presse

Smoke rises from the site of Israeli airstrikes that targeted areas in Beirut's southern suburbs

Middle East war enters seventh day as Israel strikes Beirut

Agence France-Presse

FILE PHOTO: Planes are parked at Terminal 3 of the Dubai International Airport, following the United States and Israel strikes on Iran, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 2, 2026. REUTERS/Raghed Waked/File Photo

Perishables to plane parts stranded as Middle East conflict hits air cargo

Reuters

An ambulance leaves a navy camp after a submarine attack on the Iranian military ship, Iris Dena, off Sri Lanka, in Galle, Sri Lanka, March 4, 2026. REUTERS/Thilina Kaluthotage

Iranian sailors recovering in Sri Lankan hospital after US submarine attack, authorities say

Reuters

An air defense system operates as missiles are launched towards Israel from Iran, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Jerusalem, March 3, 2026. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

Iran launches wave of missiles at Israel; US Republicans block measure to halt US air campaign

Reuters

U.S. Army Major Jeffrey O'Brien, 45, poses in an undated photograph in his uniform. O'Brien was killed March 1, 2026, at the Port of Shuaiba, Kuwait during a drone attack. U.S. Army Reserve/Handout via REUTERS

Pentagon identifies two soldiers killed in Iran war

Reuters

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright pumps gas at a gas station in Corpus Christi, Texas, U.S., February 27, 2026. REUTERS/Sheila Dang/File Photo

Iran conflict's impact on energy temporary and a 'small price,' US energy secretary says

Reuters

Asif Merchant, a Pakistani man with alleged ties to Iran, appears on charges in connection with a foiled plot to assassinate a U.S. politician or government officials, in a courtroom in New York, U.S., September 16, 2024 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg

Pakistani man says Iran forced him into plot to kill Trump, media say

Reuters

Tourism to the Middle East has boomed in recent years but war now threatens that success

Tourism on hold as Middle East war casts uncertainty

Agence France-Presse

FILE PHOTO: Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand arrives on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, January 28, 2026. REUTERS/Patrick Doyle/File Photo

Canada working to repatriate more than 2,000 citizens from Middle East

Reuters

A protester holds a Kurdish flag at a demonstration outside the United Nations office in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's northern autonomous Kurdish region, in January 2024

Iran's ethnic fault lines offer path for US, Israel

Agence France-Presse