The deployments could help provide Trump with additional options as he weighs expanding US operations, with the Iran war well into its third week, Reuters reported on Thursday, at the same time further entrenching the US in a foreign war, the like of which he had repeatedly promised never to do.
The level of accuracy in some of this targeting you can see it in our neighbours as well as the kingdom indicates that this is something that was premeditated, preplanned, preorganised and well thought out.
Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed out at a major facility known as South Pars Gas Field in Iran. A relatively small section of the whole has been hit. The United States knew nothing about this particular attack, and the country of Qatar was in no way, shape, or form, involved with it, nor did it have any idea that it was going to happen.
Analysts widely agree that prices have room to move much higher if the Strait of Hormuz, the conduit for about one-fifth of global oil supplies in peacetime, remains effectively closed in the coming weeks. The only real point of contention is by how much.
The initiative, spearheaded by the Progressive International, a left-wing transnational organization, and supported by well-known activists such as Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, aims to alleviate the crisis gripping Cubans amid heightened tensions with the Trump Administration, which is demanding a change in the island's leadership.
We will be preparing for the World Cup. We will boycott the United States but not the World Cup. Iran's football federation said this week it had opened talks with Fifa about potentially relocating the team's matches from the US to Mexico, though the global governing body has maintained that the tournament's schedule remains unchanged.
On Thursday morning, the price of Brent crude oil rose by around 7 per cent, surpassing 114 US dollars per barrel and bringing it close to its highest level since the conflict intensified at the end of February. The dramatic spike in oil prices followed a report from Qatar indicating that Iranian missile strikes had targeted its liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility at Ras Laffan.
Military police chief Marcelo Menezes Nogueira said that the raid resulted in a major armed confrontation. Dos Santos and six other suspected criminals were killed, and a local resident was reportedly caught in the crossfire after being taken hostage.
Gabbard said in written testimony to the Senate intelligence committee, referencing the June 2025 US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, Iran's nuclear enrichment program was obliterated. There have been no efforts since then to try to rebuild their enrichment capability, Gabbard said in the written testimony.
The Ministry of Intelligence said in a statement that 111 pro-monarchy cells in 26 of Iran's 31 provinces were stopped overnight into Wednesday from launching acts opposing the country's theocratic establishment that toppled a US-backed monarchy in a 1979 Islamic revolution.
On the evening of March 13, drones struck three locations across Pakistan. Two children were wounded in Quetta. Civilians were also injured in Kohat and in Rawalpindi, the garrison city that houses the headquarters of Pakistan's armed forces and neighbours the capital, Islamabad. Pakistan's military said the drones were intercepted before reaching their targets.
Oil prices have risen more than 5 percent following an Israeli strike on Iran's South Pars gasfield as the United States-Israeli war on the country continues to escalate. Brent crude, the international standard, rose 5 percent to $108.66 a barrel on Wednesday, while US West Texas Intermediate crude gained 2.5 percent to $98.65, widening its discount to Brent to the largest since May 2019 on fears of a prolonged conflict.
