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Air France has announced an extension of its flight suspensions to several Middle Eastern destinations in response to ongoing regional conflict. Flights to Dubai and Riyadh will remain suspended until at least Tuesday, with some Dubai departures affected through Wednesday. Services to Tel Aviv and Beirut are also suspended until at least Wednesday. Safety......
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......
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......
Lebanon’s national carrier, Middle East Airlines, has announced additional flights between Beirut and Istanbul as part of temporary adjustments to its schedule this week. The changes come as several countries across the region close their airspace following the escalation of hostilities involving the United States, Israel and Iran. Lebanon,......
Global oil shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has effectively halted after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps declared the strategic waterway closed and threatened to attack any vessel attempting to pass, sending shockwaves through global energy markets. The crisis began on February 28 following coordinated air strikes by the......
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......
About forty kilometres south of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia has begun building one of the most ambitious aviation projects ever attempted on the continent: Bishoftu International Airport, a new mega hub designed to anchor the future growth of Ethiopian Airlines and entrench the country’s role as Africa’s main gateway. At a groundbreaking......
Saudi Arabia’s state energy giant Saudi Aramco is reportedly redirecting part of its crude exports toward the Red Sea in an effort to reduce reliance on the Strait of Hormuz, as heightened regional tensions disrupt maritime traffic in the Gulf. According to market sources and industry analysts, the company has instructed certain buyers......
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......
Three US Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers flew nonstop from Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota to strike Iranian military targets overnight, in the second long-range bomber mission of Operation Epic Fury as the joint US Israeli campaign entered its third day on Monday. The aircraft, tracked on open-source flight monitoring under the callsigns......
The death of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in joint United States and Israeli airstrikes has plunged the Middle East into a fast‑escalating regional war that is already killing large numbers of civilians and soldiers on all sides. Khamenei was killed when his compound in Tehran was struck during the opening wave of Operation......
Banks, hedge funds and insurers spent the weekend racing to map out their exposure to the Middle East as the escalating confrontation between Iran, the United States and Israel disrupted markets, travel and business operations across the Gulf. The latest round of strikes, which hit targets in the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf states,......
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