Houthis enter the fray

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis launched missiles at Israel yesterday, their first such attack since the start of the Iran war, heightening the risk that a conflict now in its second month could expand further across the region.
29 March 2026

Iran president lauds Pakistan for mediation to stop US, Israel 'aggression'

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday hailed mediation efforts by Pakistan to stop the war with US and Israel
28 March 2026

Iran military say targeted depot of Ukrainian anti-drone systems in UAE

Claim comes as Ukraine deepens defence cooperation with Gulf states during Zelensky’s visit
28 March 2026
28 March 2026

Yemen's Houthi enter war with missile targeting Israel

No reports of any casualties or damage in Israel yet
28 March 2026

India opens second international airport in capital

The Noida International Airport will serve 12 million passengers a year in its initial phase
28 March 2026

US and Iraq to 'intensify cooperation' against attacks

Announce the creation of a "High Joint Coordination Committee"
28 March 2026
28 March 2026

Pakistan to host Saudi, Turkey, Egypt for talks on Mideast war

Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar had invited his counterparts and that they would be in the Pakistani capital on Sunday and Monday
28 March 2026

Russia to ban gasoline exports from April 1

The state-run TASS news agency earlier reported that the ban would remain in place until July 31.
28 March 2026

Thai PM says reached deal with Iran for vessels to transit Hormuz Strait

More than 80 percent of the crude oil and liquified natural gas (LNG) that passes through the Strait of Hormuz heads to Asia, according to the US Energy Information Administration
28 March 2026

One month into Iran war, only hard choices for Trump

Despite a flurry of diplomatic activity, Trump ends another week of the joint US-Israeli campaign struggling to contain a widening Middle East crisis as a defiant Iran maintains a chokehold on Gulf oil and gas shipments and continues missile and drone strikes across the region.
28 March 2026

US-Israel war on Iran: Latest developments

Here are the latest developments in the Middle East war
28 March 2026

Israel says Iran missile attack kills man in Tel Aviv

Israeli authorities said an Iranian missile attack killed a man in Tel Aviv on Friday, as Tehran pressed its retaliatory strikes across the region a month into the war.
28 March 2026

'Strait of Trump': US president says Iran must open key waterway

Trump, who has renamed several buildings in Washington after himself during his second term, said his comment was a "mistake" but then added that "there's no accidents with me."
28 March 2026

US lifts sanctions on Venezuela minerals sector, including gold

Besides gold and the world's largest oil reserves, Venezuela also produces diamonds, bauxite and rare earths such as coltan, crucial for a range of high-tech products
28 March 2026

The rise and fall of Nepal strongman KP Sharma Oli

Oli, leader of the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML), painted the polls during campaigning as a "competition between those who burn the country and those who build it".
28 March 2026

Musk joined Trump and Modi call on Iran, says New York Times

It was unclear why Musk was on the call or whether he spoke
28 March 2026

Bank of America agrees to pay $72.5 mn to settle Epstein sex-trafficking suit

Epstein committed suicide while being held at Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center in August 2019
28 March 2026

Rubio says Iran war to last 'weeks not months,' no US ground troops needed

Meanwhile, an Iranian attack on an airbase in Saudi Arabia seriously wounded two US military personnel and injured another 10, a US official told Reuters, as drones and missiles continued to strike around the Gulf.
28 March 2026