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Dubai: Iran intensified its attacks on its Gulf Arab neighbours' energy infrastructure on Thursday, setting Qatari liquefied natural gas facilities and a Kuwaiti oil refinery 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

Home / World / US detects drones over base where Rubio, Hegseth live Officials weigh relocating Rubio and Hegseth Reuters Bengaluru, Updated At : 09:25 AM Mar 19, 2026 IST Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth. File photos US officials detected unidentified drones above an army base in Washington where Secretary of State Marco Rubio and

Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday stormed out of a closed-door briefing on the Jeffrey Epstein files by Justice Department leaders, and said they would push to force Attorney General Pam Bondi to answer questions under oath about the case that has plagued the Trump administration. Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche went to Capitol Hill

Senior diplomat Vikram K. Doraiswami, currently serving as India’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the People’s Republic of China, the Ministry of External Affairs announced on Thursday. Doraiswami, a 1992-batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, is expected to take up the assignment shortly. He

US President Donald Trump said an angry Israel “violently lashed out” and attacked Iran’s major gas field, a significant escalation in the US-Israeli war, but ruled out further such attacks by Israel unless Iran retaliated. Wednesday’s attack on the huge South Pars gas field drove oil prices higher and prompted a threat by Iran to

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

Joe Kent, the former counterterrorism director who resigned this week over concerns about the Iran war, said Wednesday that he and other senior officials with doubts about the airstrikes “were not allowed” to share them with President Donald Trump. Speaking on Tucker Carlson’s show, Kent said the President relied on a small circle of advisers

A mix of uncertainty, anger and hope simmered in Cuba on Wednesday following comments by US President Donald Trump this week saying that Washington could take “imminent action” against the island’s government. Trump, whose government has come at its Caribbean adversary more aggressively than any US government in recent history, has effectively cut Cuba off

Rumours surrounding the health and status of Benjamin Netanyahu continue to circulate online, despite the absence of any credible evidence supporting claims of his death. The speculation has persisted even after Netanyahu’s office released a recent video on March 18, showing him at Israel’s high-security Kirya command centre in Tel Aviv. In the footage, he

US intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday said Pakistan, along with Russia, China and North Korea, currently posed the most significant nuclear threat to the country. Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence, was briefing the US Senate on Iran. Speaking on the evolving threat landscape, she said the US “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment programme in June