Archives for March, 2026

FILE PHOTO: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi adjusts glasses during a press conference following talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, Russia, December 17, 2025. REUTERS/Ramil Sitdikov/Pool/File Photo

Iran toughens negotiating stance amid mediation efforts, sources say

Reuters

FILE PHOTO: An oil storage tank of Russian oil pipeline monopoly Transneft is pictured at the Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga, Russia February 26, 2018. REUTERS/Vladimir Soldatkin/File Photo

EU delays April 15 proposal to permanently ban Russian oil imports

Reuters

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 13, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo

Modi, Trump discuss importance of keeping Strait of Hormuz open, U.S. envoy says

Reuters

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the eastern outskirts of the southern Lebanese coastal city of Tyre

Israel says will take 'control' of security zone in south Lebanon

Agence France-Presse

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to reporters, on the day of classified briefings for the full U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on the situation in Iran, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 3, 2026. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz

Rubio to attend G7 meeting in France to discuss Ukraine and Middle East, State Dept says

Reuters

Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Majed Al Ansari, speaking to Reuters in Doha, Qatar, January 20, 2025. REUTERS/Imad Creidi

Qatar is not directly mediating between US and Iran, ministry spokesperson says

Reuters

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the eastern outskirts of the southern Lebanese coastal city of Tyre on March 24, 2026. Lebanon was pulled into the Middle East war when Iran-backed Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israel on March 2 to avenge the killing of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Israel has since launched strikes across Lebanon, killing at least 1,039 people and displacing more than a million others, and sent ground troops into the country's south. (Ph

Analysis

Israel hedges, intensifies Iran and Lebanon strikes ahead of Trump talks

Israel believes that US President Trump might soon opt to end the war, leading to a surge in Israeli strikes ahead of a potential ceasefire.

In Tel Aviv, reporting on national security, Israeli politics, defense

Israeli soldiers stand next to tanks near the Israeli side of the border with Lebanon, amid escalation between Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel and the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in northern Israel, March 23, 2026. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu

Israel's military to occupy swathe of southern Lebanon, defence chief says

Reuters

US President Donald Trump did not disclose the identity of the person

'A top person': Who is the US dealing with in Iran?

Agence France-Presse

Iran’s ambassador to Beirut, Mohammad Reza Sheibani (L), shakes hands with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in an undated photo.

Lebanon expels Iranian ambassador as war tensions mount

Lebanon has withdrawn the accreditation of Iran’s ambassador to Beirut amid mounting tensions over Hezbollah's involvement in the Iran war.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaks, during a press conference with Panama's President Jose Raul Mulino (not pictured) at the Palacio de las Garzas Presidential Palace, in Panama City, Panama, March 16, 2026. REUTERS/Enea Lebrun

German president calls Iran war a disastrous mistake, in rare rebuke of Trump

Reuters

General Chief of Staff of the French armed Forces Fabien Mandon delivers a speech during a military training at the Montoir-de-Bretagne Airport near Saint-Nazaire as part of ORION 26, a joint and combined high-intensity warfare exercise, France, February 19, 2026. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

US unpredictability impacts our interests, France army chief says

Reuters

Al-Bass in Tyre dates back three thousand years but is under threat from Israel's war with Hezbollah

In Lebanon's Tyre, ancient site threatened by Israeli bombs

Agence France-Presse

The Israeli-US war on Iran is 'in breach of international law', President Steinmeier says

US-Israeli war on Iran is 'breach of international law': German president

Agence France-Presse

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul on the day of a cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany March 18, 2026. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse

German minister says Trump's Iran talks announcement could mark turning point

Reuters

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov walks at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China, September 2, 2025. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/Pool

Russia says it would be very concerned by Iran war spillover into Caspian Sea

Reuters