US Central Command rebuked Iranian leadership for falsely claiming it had sunk an American aircraft carrier in the Gulf.
Prime minister does not believe US has a plan beyond ‘shock and awe’ stage, as some MPs dread what lies ahead• • • Tony Blair’s support for the US invasion of Iraq has long loomed like a spectre over the Labour party.It was present in 2013 when Ed Miliband as opposition leader voted to block UK military action against the Syrian regime.
The gunman was wearing clothes with an Iranian flag design and bearing the words ‘Property of Allah’ during the attack, a law enforcement official said
Israel has closed all crossings into Gaza, threatening to plunge 2 million people into a new hunger crisisIsrael closed all crossings into Gaza indefinitely when it attacked Iran, imposing a siege that has already pushed up food prices and threatens to plunge 2 million people into a new hunger crisis.After more than two years of war, and with Israeli forces in control of about 60% of the territory, almost all of Gaza’s food must be brought in.
The U.S. launched its military operation against Iran over the weekend
The Conservative Party leader said 'Iran in 2026 is not Iraq in 2003' as leftwing figures invoked the memory of the War on Terror to criticise UK support for Trump's decision to wage war.
A small number of Shia mosques and Islamic centres hosted vigils for Iran’s supreme leader who was killed in US missile strikes on SundayGet our , or Iranian Australia community members have expressed distress after a small number of mosques and Islamic centres in Melbourne and Sydney invited members to mourn the death of Iran’s supreme leader.Iranian state media on Sunday confirmed the, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 86, after Israel and the US launched strikes on the country, plunging the Middle East into a volatile conflict.
While Hezbollah launches preemptive strikes, Tehran tells Al Jazeera it doesn't need outside help in defending itself.
Ukrainians to help intercept drones targeting Gulf allies, UK PM says; Russian overnight missile attacks on Ukraine hit new high. What we know on day 1,467The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, said Ukrainian experts would provide guidance on intercepting Iranian drones being launched at Gulf allies, as Tehran responds to on Iran. “We are not joining these strikes, but we will continue with our defensive actions in the region,” Starmer said on Sunday night. “And we will also bring experts from Ukraine, together with our own experts, to help Gulf partners shoot down Iranian drones attacking them.” Ukraine was yet to comment on Starmer’s announcement.Russia fired more missiles in overnight attacks at Ukraine in February than in any other month since at least the beginning of 2023, analysis by Agence France-Presse (AFP) shows. The missile attacks targeted Ukrainian energy infrastructure in particular, AFP said. Russia launched 288 missiles at Ukraine in February, an increase of about 113% compared to 135 missiles in January. Additionally, in February, Russia launched 5,059 long-range drones during its night-time pummelling of Ukrainian cities and towns – an increase of about 13% percent compared to January. AFP conducted analysis of daily figures provided by the Ukrainian air force.The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said changes in Iran brought about by US and Israeli strikes should be “used properly” to benefit the country’s people. Speaking in his nightly video address, Zelenskyy said Iran had “predetermined the way it is treated” by supplying attack drones to Russia in Moscow’s four-year-old conflict in Ukraine and had also “fomented wars in the region”. “It is important that the this chance for changes in Iran be used properly,” he said, adding “Tyhe Iranian people were on their own for a long time, enduring violence while standing against the Iranian regime.” Zelenskyy said on Saturday Iranian-designed Shahed-type drones at Ukraine during the war.Belgium has seized an oil tanker believed to form part of the so-called “shadow fleet” used by Russia to circumvent western sanctions over the war in Ukraine. Special forces assisted by French helicopters boarded the ship in a clandestine operation in the North Sea on Saturday night, Kate Connolly . Prosecutors said the tanker, identified as the Ethera, was falsely flying the flag of Guinea and was believed to be on its way back to Russia when it was seized in Belgium’s exclusive economic zone.Zelenskyy praised Belgium’s decision to seize the tanker. “This particular vessel has long been under US, EU and UK sanctions, but nonetheless continued to illegally transport Russian oil using a false flag and forged documents,” he wrote on X. “We welcome this strong action against Moscow’s floating purse and thank France for supporting the operation.”
Thousands of travelers have been stranded amid air strikes on Iran and retaliatory attacks on neighboring Gulf states
U.S. first lady Melania Trump is presiding over a U.N. Security Council meeting that will focus on children in conflict, one of her signature issues
LIVE UPDATES: Follow all the latest from the US-Israel war with Iran as the conflict enters its third day. Violence has spread across the Middle East with Israel launching attacks on Lebanon.
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, a close Putin ally, claimed that a new global conflict will come if Donald Trump continues 'his insane course of criminal regime change'.
Trump says the US is already ‘substantially ahead’ of its time projections after telling New York Post, ‘I don’t have the yips with respect to boots on the ground’While speaking today, Pete Hegseth acknowledged the fourth US service member killed in Iran’s counterattacks.“War is hell and always will be,” he said. “Our grateful nation honors the four Americans we have lost thus far and those injured – the absolute best of America.”
No U.S. troops on ground in Iran now but 'we'll go as far as we need', says U.S. Defense Secretary; Netanyahu says day is 'near' for Iranians to oust clerical rule
Globe and Mail report alleges Indian consular officials in Vancouver tied to Hardeep Singh Nijjar's assassination.
The wife of Iran's Supreme Leader died today after succumbing to injuries sustained in the same US-Israeli airstrike that killed her husband.
The Islamic Republic's national team have been drawn in Group G of the tournament alongside New Zealand, Belgium and Egypt, but the prospect of their participation is growing more uncertain.
President Donald Trump announced on Saturday evening that the US had killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh, the wife of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has died in Tehran. Bagherzadeh died after succumbing to injuries she sustained in a joint United States–Israeli military strike, Iranian state media reported on Monday. Iranian outlets say Bagherzadeh, 79, had been in a coma since Saturday after the US and Israeli […]
Lebanon's health ministry says 31 people were killed by Israeli strikes, while there are no reports of casualties in Israel.
Years of campaigning led to the release of 81 women imprisoned under the country’s strict reproductive laws, but the suspension of civil rights by President Nayib Bukele is fuelling a new wave of criminalisationHer ordeal began with stomach cramps; 19 years old and training to be a nurse, she knew something was wrong. At the hospital she waited for hours in the emergency department. She had suffered an obstetric emergency.Under El Salvador’s legal framework, emergencies including miscarriages and stillbirths, place women under criminal suspicion. She lost the baby and doctors alerted the police. She was arrested and handcuffed.
Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico have been locked in a fierce Senate primary loaded with racial overtones and questions about electability.
"The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates," the president says. "It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead”
Blasts were also heard in Jerusalem , with the IDF saying defence systems were operating to intercept missiles.
Ali Larijani, a close loyalist of slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has announced the formation of a temporary leadership council following the airstrike that killed Iran's top leader.
In today’s newsletter: A region already strained by years of proxy conflict is now confronting its most volatile moment in decades, as the death of Iran’s supreme leader could drag us into a rapidly widening crisis, with no clear path to de‑escalationGood morning. Over the weekend the US and Israel launched a series of attacks on Iran that resulted in the assassination of Tehran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – a move that dramatically raised the stakes in their long-running conflict.The assassination of a serving supreme leader is an extraordinary act – one that signals not containment, but confrontation. Retaliatory strikes by Iran have already spilled the conflict far beyond its borders, drawing a host of regional powers into the fray. Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, the judiciary chief, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, and senior cleric Alireza Arafi will reportedly lead Iran in the transitional period following Khamenei’s death.Iran | Donald Trump said on Sunday he was in the wake of the killing of the country’s supreme leader by US-Israeli air strikes aimed at overthrowing the regime.British military | The UK’s RAF Akrotiri base in Cyprus was , causing limited damage and no casualties, Cypriot authorities and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.Immigration | Shabana Mahmood has ripped up the government’s asylum rules so that from Monday every refugee will be told that .UK politics | The Green party said its membership had in the wake of its victory in the Gorton and Denton byelection, in which it overturned a huge Labour majority.AI | Datacentre developers are facing pressure to reveal whether their projects will , amid concerns the sites could double national electricity demand.
Iran’s top national security official, Ali Larijani, has made it clear that his country has no plan to negotiate with the United States of America. Larijani, who is one of the country’s most influential people, made the comment on X in response to media reports that suggested Iran had contacted the United States through intermediaries […]
Vigils have been held at mosques in Sydney , Melbourne and Brisbane following the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by US-Israel airstrikes on February 28.
Davidson was heard shouting the N-word as Sinners stars Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo presented the first prize of the night for special visual effects at London's Royal Festive Hall last month.
Bulky and noisy Iran-made unmanned attack drones have hit buildings in Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE and elsewhere Iran’s noisy $50,000 delta-winged Shahed 136 drones have long been an unwanted sight over the skies of Ukraine.Now, over the last 48 hours, hundreds of the distinctive weapons have struck Bahrain, Kuwait, the UAE and across the Gulf as Tehran tries to intimidate and impose costs on regional allies of the US.
Earlier, Donald Trump laid out US objectives, saying mission could go on for four-five weeks, adding US has ‘capability to go far longer’Bahrain has said that one person was killed by shrapnel from an intercepted missile. The death of a foreign worker at Salman Industrial City, working on a boat there, marks the kingdom’s first reported fatality in the war.Bahrain, home to the US navy’s 5th fleet, said it intercepted 61 missiles and 34 attack drones launched against it. It said some shrapnel had gotten through, striking buildings and the naval base.
'There are sirens in the West Bank,' one person said during a recent barrage. 'Good,' another replied. 'May all the missiles fall on the West Bank'
Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) said they hit three British and American ships in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz - as footage showed a tanker bursting into flames on Sunday.
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Hospitals across Iran have been damaged by US, Israeli strikes - but no reports of direct hits yet.
Hegseth also outlined the war goal of the mission in Iran, which did not include regime change.
US allies in Gulf states come under attack from Iranian missiles and drones as three US fighter jets mistakenly shot down by KuwaitThe war in the Middle East triggered by the joint US and Israeli attack on Iran expanded dramatically on Monday, with casualties and destruction reported across at least nine countries in under 10 hours.Israeli and US warplanes launched a fresh wave of strikes across Iran, where the Iranian Red Crescent Society said more than 500 people have been killed since the conflict began. Israel also launched an intense wave of attacks into Lebanon after in retaliation for the Israeli strike on Saturday that killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
How the US-Israeli war against Iran exploded into a regional conflict, as Tehran retaliated with strikes across the Middle EastA US-Israeli war against Iran that began on Saturday with bombing and missile attacks that killed has exploded into a regional conflict, with Tehran retaliating by launching strikes across the Middle East.By Monday, a major new front had opened after Iran’s ally, Hezbollah, launched strikes. And Cyprus on the Mediterranean island nation.
War exploded in the Middle East when America and Israel launched joint strikes against military targets in Iran early on Saturday morning.
The student group, which led the pro-Palestine demonstrations on Columbia's campus that spread to universities across the country, shared a venomous, anti-American post via X.
Iran has carried out strikes against Israel, across the Gulf and against a British base in Cyprus in retaliation.
Slew of bills in veto-proof Republican state legislature harm individual rights and concentrate power, rights groups sayRon DeSantis, Florida’s Republican hard-right governor, will be termed out of office in barely 10 months’ time. Civil rights groups watching a slew of new restrictive laws passing through the state’s legislature say his bequest will be a “police state”, where government officials dictate what residents can do, say or believe.They point in particular to two House bills they say restrict free speech, and which have already found favor with Florida’s veto-proof Republican majority: would give a handful of state officials unprecedented power to designate as a “terrorist group” any organization whose aims and policies they do not like, including non-profits operating for religious, charitable and social justice purposes. creates a “counterintelligence and counterterrorism” unit within the Florida department of law enforcement that critics say will be used to spy on groups or individuals whose “actions, views, or opinions” are deemed “a threat or are inimical to the interests of this state”.
A single Iranian drone can cost as little as $35,000 to produce, while intercepting it can cost anywhere from $500,000 to $4 million.
Trump urged Iranians to rise up and topple the Islamic leadership after the US launched ‘major combat operations’
Ali Larijani, who also served as an adviser to late supreme leader, says Iran ‘did not initiate aggression’
The killing of Khamenei, and U.S. President Donald Trump’s calls for the overthrow of the decades-old Islamic Republic, marked the start of a stunning new U.S. intervention in West Asia and potentially a prolonged war
Donald Trump suggested Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's death was a matter of having 'got him before he got me' as Israel expanded its attacks in both Iran and Lebanon.