Pakistan's prime minister said he had a "detailed" call with Iran's president on Saturday, as foreign ministers from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey gathered in Islamabad for talks on the war in the Middle East.

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have entered the monthlong war in the Middle East and claimed they launched missiles toward Israel.

The ongoing Middle East war has intensified as the United States and Israel continue targeting Iran’s suspected nuclear facilities. Key sites, including Bushehr, Arak, and Yazd, have faced repeated airstrikes amid concerns over uranium enrichment and ...

Japan, Taiwan and other Asian countries that rely on the U.S. for security worry that the Iran war is drawing American military assets and focus away from containing China.

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have claimed a missile launch toward Israel, their first since the war in the Middle East started.

TEHRAN, Iran — The Israeli military said it had struck an Iranian research facility for naval weapons, while a series of loud explosions rattled Tehran as night fell on Saturday. The fresh attacks on the capital came after Yemen's Houthi rebels announced their entry into the Middle East war by launching a missile towards Israel.

The evolving conflict centred on Iran has entered a more volatile phase, with military, political and economic pressures intensifying across multiple

The ability of Israel's highly sophisticated air defenses to keep intercepting Iranian attacks is coming under scrutiny as the Middle East war drags on into a second month. The military has dismissed reports that it is running low on the interceptors used to shoot down the steady stream of Iranian missiles and Hezbollah rockets fired at Israel.

BEIJING, March 27 (Reuters) - China's industrial firms reported stronger profit growth early in the year, reinforcing recovery signals in the world's second-largest economy even as the Middle East war threatens global growth.

Japan's government plans to temporarily lift restrictions on coal-fired power plants as it seeks to ease an energy crunch caused by the Middle East war, officials said on Friday. But Yoko Mulholland of climate think-tank E3G told AFP that the plans to lift coal power restrictions "deepen the risk that Japan will not meet its goal of phasing out inefficient coal plants by 2030".