Iran’s attempt to attack the joint UK-US Diego Garcia military base proves that the United Kingdom is very much party to the ongoing Israel-US military campaign. Whatever Keir Starmer’s views, it could never have been otherwise.
In the weeks since US-Israeli bombs started falling on Iran, about 1,500 people have been killed, homes destroyed and ancient sites damagedIt is approaching a month since the US and Israel launched their attacks on Iran, arguing they were acting to remove the country’s nuclear threat, destroy its ballistic missile capability and free the Iranian people of a tyrannical theocratic regime. Yet it is Iranian civilians who are increasingly bearing the brunt of Israel and US’s campaign. Here’s what we know about the impact war is having on the Iranian public.
Earlier this week, the Confederation of African Football, CAF, announced the decision to strip Senegal of the Africa Cup of Nations title. This comes two months after the dramatic end to the final, which involved hosts, Morocco. CAF’s appeal board ruled that the Teranga Lions had forfeited the match when they left the field in […]
Rape and domestic abuse victims who have waited up to four years for justice have written to MPs urging them to back David Lammy’s curbs on jury trials. The 17 victims hit back at claims that their experiences of lengthy delays in the court system were being “weaponised” to support the Justice Secretary’s plans to tackle the record backlogs of nearly 80,000 cases.
Treasury secretary won’t say where Congress will find $200 billion for Iran war but says government has money to spare
Statement from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards comes after the US threatened to target energy infrastructure Several blasts could be heard from Jerusalem on Sunday, AFP journalists said, after the Israeli military warned of incoming missile fire from Iran towards central Israel.Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency medical service said there were no immediate reports of casualties.
The Israeli PM stated that Iran has targeted civilian areas and key religious sites in Jerusalem, including the Western Wall, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Iran and its ally, the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group, are stepping up pressure on Israel, with intense attacks on the country’s north and south as the United States and Iran threatened to widen the Mideast war
Known for their brutality, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) slaughtered thousands of protesters who dared to take to the streets in anti-government protests in January.
The war has shown no signs of abating
Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West BankScroll downCredit: Avishay Mohar, B'TselemHagar ShezafShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on WhatsAppThese images appear again and again – from the ground, from the air, and on maps: dozens of Palestinian communities wiped off the landscape, while illegal Israeli settler outposts continue to spread across the West Bank.Since October 7, 2023, this phenomenon has intensified significantly. Unlike the war in Gaza, there is no discussion in Israel about ending this parallel campaign of dispossession.
Christy Kinahan - the elusive head of the Kinahan drugs cartel - is living in Dubai and spends his days leaving Google reviews for restaurants he visits with a nom de guerre.
The imposing nine-foot concrete walls are the first clue that something unusual lies beyond the gates. The compound looks more like a prison than a boarding school.
Iranians are concerned about the impact of potential attacks on power plants as the scope of US-Israel war expands.
With the war in its fourth week, the Trump administration sends contradictory messages on how to proceed.
It's more than half a century since Richard Campion and the kids in the church home were starved, beaten with belts, straps and whipped until they bled - is justice finally in sight?
Labor’s Peter Malinauskas secures at least 32 seats while Pauline Hanson’s party outpolls Liberals and could become de facto oppositionOne Nation will win at least one South Australian lower house seat, and is leading in a handful of others, as the Liberals consider “sobering lessons” from to Labor.One Nation’s came as federal MP Barnaby Joyce downplayed racism and bigotry accusations against the party before likening a ban on migration from Muslim countries to buying cattle “that just don’t work”.
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The name Awdah means "return." Awdah Hathaleen, who became a leader of the village of Umm al-Kheir in the West Bank, lived most of his life near the settlement of Carmel, which grew at breakneck speed while Umm al-Kheir remained a site of temporary structures made of plywood and tin. Awdah will never return to his land or receive recognition of his right to it, but in the way he lived, and in the way he led his community, this return seemed to exist inside him.
Iran fired a missile on Saturday targeting the Dimona nuclear area in southern Israel, in retaliation for the attack on its Natanz nuclear site hours earlier. The Israeli army confirmed the “direct impact of an Iranian missile” on a building in the city. Dozens have been reported wounded, with emergency operations ongoing. Dimona hosts Israel’s […]
British private schools are earning millions of pounds by using Qatari textbooks at their Middle East outposts that whitewash the Holocaust, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal. The schools, including Sherborne School, King’s College Taunton and Royal Grammar School Guildford, promise the “best of British education” at their Qatari franchises.
On the 23rd day of the US- Israeli war against Iran, the conflict entered its most dangerous phase yet as US President Donald Trump’s 48-hour ultimatum imposed a hard deadline on an already grinding and multi-front war.
An Israeli drone strike killed at least three people and wounded eight others in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, the Al-Awda Hospital reported Sunday. Gaza's Interior Ministry said an Israeli airstrike targeted an on-duty police vehicle, resulting in several casualties.
Yet another cost of living crisis looms with fuel, food, holiday, energy and home loan prices expected to riseHere we go again. For Britons it has been a rollercoaster few years and just as better times seemed ahead the country has been plunged into a fresh cost of living crisis.The economic storm caused by war in the Middle East is already pushing up the cost of key household outgoings, including mortgage payments, energy bills and driving. There are warnings that the weekly shop will be next.
First responders report 33 injured at multiple sites in Dimona, including a 10-year-old boy in serious conditionAn Iranian missile has hit the Israeli town of Dimona, near the site of a nuclear facility, in what Iran said was retaliation for strikes on its own nuclear site at Natanz.Dimona hosts a facility just outside the main town widely believed to possess the Middle East’s sole nuclear arsenal, although Israel has never admitted to possessing nuclear weapons.
LIVE UPDATES: Donald Trump has threatened to 'obliterate' Iranian power plants - 'starting with the biggest one first' - if the Strait of Hormuz is not fully re-opened within 48 hours.
Donald Trump’s 48-hour ultimatum over the Strait of Hormuz has been met with threats from Iran
The violence began after 18-year-old settler Yehuda Sherman was killed after reportedly being hit by a vehicle driven by a Palestinian while on his quad bike.
If Iran's fuel and energy infrastructure is violated by the enemy, all energy, information technology and desalination infrastructure belonging to the U.S. and the regime in the region will be targeted, says Iranian military's operational command Khatam Al-Anbiya
The group’s director general said 13 children were killed in the latest violence in the Darfur region, and he decried the targeting of health care facilities in the civil war.
Energy and oil sites across region would become ‘legitimate targets’, Tehran saysIran has said it will “irreversibly destroy” essential infrastructure across the Middle East if the US attacks its energy sites, hours after Donald Trump threatened to “obliterate” the country’s power plants if the strait of Hormuz was not opened within two days.As Iranian missiles struck two southern Israeli cities overnight, injuring dozens and shattering apartment buildings, the developments signalled a dangerous potential escalation of the war in the Middle East, which is now in its fourth week.
Exclusive: Townsville lawyer and former detective Darren Robinson’s appointment by attorney general Deb Frecklington has ‘brought back a lot of trauma’ for Indigenous communityGet our , or The Queensland government has “opened old wounds” by appointing a former police detective who was heavily criticised for his role in events surrounding the 2004 riots on Palm Island to the state’s Legal Aid board, say First Nations community leaders and members of the legal fraternity.The Liberal National party government sacked and replaced all Labor-appointed members of the Legal Aid Queensland board last month.
Graphic videos show commanders beating and electrocuting their own troops, denying them food, forcing them to crawl through mud and making them fight to the death.
Iran warns of 'irreversibly' destroying vital infrastructure across region after Trump threatens to bomb power plants.
Trump threatens to hit Iranian energy sites if the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened; Tehran vows to retaliate.
The developments signaled the war was moving in a dangerous new direction at the start of its fourth week
Dozens of Instagram and TikTok accounts have used AI avatars to promote explicit content, the BBC finds.
Nebraska, Indiana and West Virginia Republicans have all rolled back child labor regulations while the number of violations has risen fivefold in the last decadeThe number of child labor violations has risen fivefold in the last 10 years, but Republicans across the US are continuing to propose and pass legislation that rolls back protections or regulations for workers under the age of 18.Republicans in Nebraska, Indiana and West Virginia have successfully passed legislation in 2026 rolling back child labor regulations, with legislation led by Republicans pending in other states, including , and .
He smashes his face with a hammer, injects himself with testosterone, takes experimental weight loss drugs and smokes meth to stay lean all in the pursuit of the aesthetic pinnacle of masculinity.
A poll found just 57% of adults are now confident in the courts, down from 69% in 2024 in the biggest year-on-year fall since records began.
Scott Peyton left the Lafayette, Louisiana, diocese after priest admitted to abusing his son and was excommunicated months laterA man who resigned as a Roman Catholic deacon after a priest molested his son and then by his local bishop is asking global church leaders to inform him of the fate of his appeal against the prelate’s decision, something that was supposed to be resolved more than a year earlier.In a letter to the Vatican entity in charge of clerical discipline, a canon – or church – law attorney representing Scott Peyton asserts that his case is “nuanced and requires careful consideration”. “To the extent that the delay reflects such diligence, he is grateful,” said the letter to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), prepared by Dawn Eden Goldstein on 3 February and obtained recently by the Guardian.
The threshold the Israeli authorities have set for the use of a nuclear weapon is dangerously low.
Cyber experts say influence operations in ‘asymmetric’ campaign to intensify moral pressure on US and IsraelIran has radically overhauled its social media strategy in an all-out information war launched by the country’s Islamic rulers in response to US and Israeli military attacks.Cyber experts say Iranian foreign influence operations have gone into overdrive as part of an “asymmetric” campaign designed to complement its military retaliation and intensify moral pressure on the US and Israel into curtailing their war efforts.
LIVE UPDATES: Follow the Daily Mail's live coverage of the Iran war as Iran fires ballistic missiles at the UK-US military base, Diego Garcia.
As businessman Ali Mir entered a polling station in a South Manchester primary school to cast his vote, a heated argument broke out.
Katherine has already experienced one of the worst floods in decades. Now patients have been evacuated from the hospital as Narelle bears downThe air was dry for the first time in months on Saturday, a perverse trick as moisture is drawn into another storm system bearing down on the Northern Territory.Tropical Cyclone Narrelle is the seventh high-risk weather event to hit Australia’s north in just five months.
An Iranian missile wounded dozens in Dimona, a city believed to house Israel’s nuclear weapons program, as Iran showed no signs of backing down.
For citizens living under the Islamic Republic of Iran, the internet is no longer just a utility; it is a battleground.