International

09-03-2026 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump, in a post on social networking site Truth Social on Saturday (March 7, 2026), promised to attack Iran very hard today, saying, “Today Iran will be hit very hard! Under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death, because of Iran’s bad behavior, are …

09-03-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India has allowed an Iranian warship to dock as a humanitarian gesture, Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Saturday, after the US sank another Iranian navy vessel off neighboring Sri Lanka. The Lavan docked ‌at India’s southern port of Kochi on Wednesday, the same day …

09-03-2026 ABUJA: A Nigerian senator has told the BBC that “massive” numbers of civilians were killed by armed men who attacked their village in Borno state on Wednesday, although he did not have the precise figure. “The number of people killed actually is very massive but we don’t know the …

09-03-2026 MOSCOW: Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the war in Ukraine has developed into a high-tech conflict. Swarms of spy and killer drones have set the skies of Ukraine abuzz, and un-crewed boats have crippled the Russian navy in the Black Sea. Now, Ukraine has embarked on a …

09-03-2026 JAKARTA: When the United States-Israeli attack on Iran was launched last weekend, an unexpected peace broker stepped forward in the form of Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, leader of the world’s largest Muslim country. The Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on social media: “Indonesia calls on all parties to …

09-03-2026 BAGHDAD: The leader of an Iranian Kurdish nationalist group based in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region has told media that it is “highly likely” that Iranian Kurds will stage a cross-border ground operation into Iran. Babasheikh Hosseini, the secretary-general of the Khabat Organization of Iranian Kurdistan, said on Friday …

08-03-2026 LONDON/ CANBERRA: This week, several countries in Europe announced that they are sending military assistance to the Middle East and the Mediterranean amid the ongoing US-Israel-Iran war, which has seen a strike on a British military base on Cyprus. On Thursday, Australia also announced it will send “assets” to …

08-03-2026 NEW YORK: The number of jobs in the US economy fell last month, an unexpected contraction that has renewed questions about whether the labor market in the US might be starting to crack. Payrolls in the US dropped by 92,000 and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.4%, according …

08-03-2026 BEIRUT/ JERUSALEM: Israeli airstrikes pounded the southern suburbs of Beirut overnight and on Friday, smashing up city streets in an escalating conflict with Iran-backed Hezbollah that has sent tens of thousands of Lebanese from their homes. Israel ordered everyone in the densely-populated suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold, to leave before …

08-03-2026 BAGHDAD/ TEHRAN: Iran has spent decades and billions of dollars preparing foreign proxy fighters like A.J., a commander in a pro-Iranian paramilitary group in Iraq, for a moment just like this. Since the US and Israel went to war on the Islamic Republic a week ago, A.J. has been …