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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Rome intends to provide air defense assistance to Gulf states affected by Iranian retaliatory strikes, joining the United Kingdom, France and Germany in pledging military support to the region. Speaking to Italian radio station RTL 102.5 on March 5, Meloni said the planned assistance would focus......
The United States and Israel have intensified their joint military campaign against Iran, with US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stating that American and Israeli forces are close to achieving full control of Iranian airspace as the conflict enters its sixth day. Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, Hegseth said the two allies were on the......
The military confrontation involving the United States, Israel and Iran entered its sixth day on March 5 with no sign of a ceasefire, as strikes and missile attacks continued across the Middle East and the conflict’s human and economic costs intensified. Israel launched new waves of air strikes across Tehran and targeted Hezbollah positions......
Turkey’s Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidan, held phone discussions on Wednesday with his counterparts from Kuwait, Jordan, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, according to sources from the Turkish Foreign Ministry. The discussions focused on recent regional developments, although the ministry did not provide further details regarding the content or......
Industrial production across parts of South Asia has begun to slow or halt after the suspension of liquefied natural gas output in Qatar disrupted fuel supplies to major manufacturing and fertilizer sectors in India and Pakistan. The shutdown followed Iranian drone strikes on energy infrastructure at Ras Laffan, the world’s largest......
The suspension of liquefied natural gas production in Qatar after Iranian drone strikes has disrupted global energy markets and forced India’s largest LNG importer to declare force majeure as supply shortages ripple across Asia. QatarEnergy halted operations at its Ras Laffan complex on March 2 after drones struck energy facilities......
The United States has expanded evacuation efforts across the Middle East after Iranian drone strikes targeted American diplomatic facilities in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, marking a further escalation in the growing military confrontation between Washington and Tehran. Iranian drones struck the U.S. embassy compound in Riyadh......
The conflict in the Middle East is reshaping the global energy debate as rising oil and gas prices renew calls for a faster transition to renewable power. As the military confrontation involving the United States, Israel and Iran enters its second week, disruptions to fossil fuel supply chains have prompted energy executives and climate groups......
The growing military confrontation involving Iran could wipe out up to $56 billion in tourism revenue across the Middle East this year, according to a new analysis by Tourism Economics, a research unit of Oxford Economics. The report estimates that international visitor arrivals to the region could fall between 11 percent and 27 percent in......
Iran said U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio effectively acknowledged that Washington joined a voluntary conflict on Israel’s behalf after he defended the joint American Israeli military operation against Iran during remarks at the U.S. Capitol. Speaking before a closed door briefing with lawmakers on March 2, Rubio said the United......
Italy has summoned the ambassador of Iran following a drone attack targeting a British military base in Cyprus, in a move that underscores mounting diplomatic tensions across the region. According to Italy’s Foreign Ministry, the decision to call in the Iranian envoy was intended to formally protest the strike, which reportedly involved......
Iran has unleashed a sweeping campaign of missile and drone attacks across the Persian Gulf, striking the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Iraq in response to coordinated United States and Israeli airstrikes that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The offensive, which began on 28 February and......
The joint US and Israeli offensive on Iran has entered its fourth day, with more than 1,250 targets struck across the country since the first wave of attacks on 28 February 2026. The operation, known in Washington as Epic Fury and paired with Israel’s own campaign, has focused on Iranian leadership, ballistic missile infrastructure,......
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