A Kuwaiti oil refinery came under attack early Friday from Iranian drones and sirens sounded in Israel warning of incoming fire, while explosions boomed over Tehran as Israel hit Iran as the country marked the Persian New Year. As the war that has rocked the global economy neared the end of its third week, Iran showed no signs of letting up on its
Israel has killed one senior Iranian leader after another in airstrikes as it seeks to topple the Islamic Republic. But its past experience of targeting senior militants shows the strategy has limits and can sometimes backfire. Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. The group still fires rockets. It took out Hamas' top brass. The group still
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Iran is being "decimated" and it is unclear who is in charge, as Tehran sent jitters through global markets by turning its sights on Gulf oil and gas facilities. Nearly three weeks into the Middle East war launched by Israel and the United States, Netanyahu said the Islamic Republic no longer
The Iran war persisted Friday in drawing Arab neighbors directly into the conflict, with heavy explosions shaking Dubai early in the morning as air defenses intercepted incoming fire over the city as people observed Eid al-Fitr, the end of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Bahrain's Interior Ministry reported a fire erupted Friday morning after
US President Donald Trump threatened to "massively blow up" a vast Iranian gas field unless Tehran stops striking Qatari energy facilities, which sustained extensive damage Thursday. Crude oil prices surged five per cent as the latest strikes fed fears that the nearly three-week-old Middle East war could inflict lasting damage on global energy supplies
Iran intensified its attacks on its Gulf Arab neighbors' energy infrastructure Thursday, setting Qatari liquified natural gas facilities ablaze as it hit back following an Israeli attack on its main natural gas field, a major escalation in the Mideast war that has sent global fuel prices soaring. A ship burned off the coast of the United Arab Emirates
Iran launched attacks targeting oil and gas facilities around the Gulf on Wednesday, lashing out after suffering yet another blow to its leadership with Israel's killing of its intelligence chief. The death of Esmail Khatib came hot on the heels of the killing of security chief Ali Larijani, which Iran's new supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei
Israel said Wednesday its forces had killed another top Iranian official, Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib, and said its military was authorised to kill any senior figure of the Islamic republic in its sights. The announcement, the day after Iranian security chief Ali Larijani was confirmed killed in an Israeli strike, is part of a longstanding
Iran launched strikes toward Israel and neighboring Gulf countries early Wednesday, with explosions heard in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar and interceptions reported in Saudi Arabia. The attacks came hours after Iranian state media confirmed Israel's military killed top Iranian security official Ali Larijani in an overnight strike, as well as
Iran vowed on Wednesday a "decisive" retaliation for the death of its security chief Ali Larijani, firing off a wave of missiles at Israel, which said it killed him in an air strike. A barrage of Iranian missiles killed two people near Israel's commercial hub, Tel Aviv, while Gulf nations intercepted rockets and drones headed for targets including