The US-Israeli attacks on Iran have raised tensions in the Middle East. Here's a look at the Iran war in charts and maps.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to escalate the war with Iran if it blocked oil shipments from the Middle East, even as he predicted a quick end to the conflict. Trump’s warning came at the end of a day that saw global financial markets seesawing on concerns that Iran’s security establishment was rallying […]
Iran's ruling clerics on Sunday appointed the slain leader's son, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, as the country's new supreme leader, defying threats from the United States and Israel to oppose him. This comes nine days after US-Israeli strikes killed the elder Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and plunged the Middle East into war.
Israel's attack comes amid soaring tensions between Iran and the United States over Tehran's nuclear and missile programs.
The United States and Iran have made significant progress in talks aimed at resolving a longstanding nuclear dispute and averting new US strikes, mediator Oman said.
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Iran launched missiles towards Israel, Israel's military said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a recorded message released Saturday morning that the attacks will let Iranians “take their fate into their own hands” and that Israel plans the current operation to be “much more powerful” than the bruising 12-day war Israel launched against Iran in June.
Student demonstrations erupted on Saturday (February 21) at several major universities in the capital Tehran, with campuses in other cities joining in the days that followed. Pro- and anti-government groups faced off during rallies on the university campuses.
Iran has blamed the US and Israel for the strike; the US is looking into reports of the incident, while the IDF says it is "not aware" of operations in the area.
Influencers gone to Dubai for its luxurious lifestyle are now watching, helpless and sometimes shocked, as Iran attacks the Gulf countries, retaliating against the large-scale Israeli-American air strikes operation that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Al Khamenei. Since Saturday, many expatriates in the United Arab Emirates have been sharing videos of plumes of smoke rising above skyscrapers.
Mojtaba Khamenei says the leverage of closing the Strait of Hormuz should be used and that attacks on Gulf countries will continue.
Tehran also says more work is needed to get a deal - the US is yet to comment on the issue.
Combined Russian missile and drone strikes in several Ukrainian regions killed six people, according to offcials. President Volodymyr Zelensky said the Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipro and Mykolaiv regions were targeted in an attack that included around 430 drones and 68 missiles, most of which were downed by air defences.
Moscow is sending an extended team to Geneva for a new round of talks on the Ukraine settlement
Hungary will block the European Union's next package of sanctions against Russia, its foreign minister said on Sunday, until Ukraine resumes shipments of Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia via the Druzhba pipeline, which has been cut off since January 27 after being damaged by a Russian drone, according to Kyiv.
The Ukrainian president said the country was ready for peace with Russia, but any deal must not "betray" the price paid by his people.
Donald Trump promised to announce $5 bln pledge towards Gaza's reconstruction and development.
The Palestinian Red Crescent say a strike on a tent encampment in northern Gaza killed at least six people.
Pakistan bombed Taliban government forces in major Afghan cities after Afghanistan's forces launched an offensive. Several countries have offered to mediate a diplomatic end to the fighting.
The latest attacks by Pakistan follow months of clashes between the two countries. despite agreeing to a fragile ceasefire in October.
The two countries have been locked in an increasingly bitter dispute since the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan in 2021.
Israel's attack comes amid soaring tensions between Iran and the United States over Tehran's nuclear and missile programs.
Israel's cabinet on Sunday approved a process to register land in the West Bank, a move far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich hailed as "continuing the revolution of settlement". The Palestinian Authority condemned what it called "a de-facto annexation of occupied Palestinian territory" and several Arab countries criticised the measure as illegal under international law.
President Trump has fired his homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem. In a post on social media, Trump said he was replacing Noem with Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma. Noem is the first cabinet member to be ousted in Trump’s second term. She was a key figure in carrying out Trump’s mass deportation effort and her tenure was marked by a series of controversies.
Greenland's PM reminded Trump of its free healthcare, after Trump said he was sending a boat to aid people who were allegedly "not being taken care of".
The ruling upheld a lower court's decision that Trump's use of this 1977 law exceeded his authority.
The six justices who voted against the tariffs, dealing a major blow to his signature economic policy, should be "absolutely ashamed", Trump said.
The U.S. Secret Service said on Sunday its agents shot and killed a man in his 20s after he unlawfully entered a secure perimeter at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. Trump was not there at the time.
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Eight skiers have died after an avalanche tore through the slopes of California's Sierra Nevada mountains, authorities said Wednesday, as rescuers continued searching for one other missing person from the group.
Jackson weathered a spate of controversies but remained America's preeminent civil rights figure.
Cuba’s government said Wednesday that its soldiers killed four people aboard a speed boat registered in Florida that opened fire on officers in Cuban waters. Cuba’s Interior Ministry issued a statement that provided few details about the shooting, but noted that the boat was roughly 1.6 km northeast of Cayo Falcones, off Cuba’s north coast. It was unclear if any U.S. citizens were aboard. FRANCE 24's Ed Augustin reports from Havana.
The FBI says the incident is being investigated as a "targeted act of violence against the Jewish community".
The US Justice Department on Friday released Epstein file documents detailing claims that US President Donald Trump attempted to force an underage girl into performing oral sex. The FBI interviewed the alleged victim in 2019 as part of its investigation into late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
US President Donald Trump has called on nations to send warships to keep the Strait of Hormuz open for shipping as Iranian forces continue their retaliation campaign amid US and Israeli attacks on Iran.
The move announced on social media comes after a standoff between Anthropic's boss and the US Department of Defense.
British police have arrested a former UK ambassador to the US in a misconduct investigation stemming from his ties with Jeffrey Epstein.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, the BBC reports. Police say King Charles’s brother is in custody and officers are carrying out searches at addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk. Photos show vehicles, believed to be police cars, arriving at the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk earlier this morning. It comes after Thames …
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The UN's independent fact-finding mission on Sudan said Thursday the paramilitary siege and capture of El-Fasher bore "the hallmarks of genocide".
Robert Duvall, the Oscar-winning actor of matchless versatility and dedication whose classic roles included the intrepid consigliere of the first two "Godfather" movies and the over-the-hill country music singer in "Tender Mercies," has died at age 95. Duvall died “peacefully” at his home Sunday in Middleburg, Virginia, according to an announcement from his publicist and from a statement posted on his Facebook page by his wife, Luciana Duvall.
A senior Hezbollah official is among those who were killed.
Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho", was killed during a security operation to arrest him, Mexico's defence ministry has said.
Six people died, and three were injured in a bus fire in a small Swiss town believed to have been caused by a man on board who set fire to himself, authorities said.
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