Iran says it hits US oil tanker in Gulf, no immediate confirmation
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Thursday that they had hit a U.S. tanker in the northern part of the Gulf and the vessel was on fire. There was ...
Hezbollah’s entry into Iran crisis deepens its isolation at home
Hezbollah’s decision to enter the Middle East war in support of its patron Iran has opened a rift with its main political ally at home in Lebanon, leaving the ...
US lawmakers set to vote on war powers as Iran conflict widens
Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate were set to begin voting on Wednesday on a bipartisan war powers resolution aiming to stop the military campaign against Iran and require that ...
White House monitors reports Khamenei’s son may emerge as frontrunner to lead Iran
The United States has seen reports that Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran’s slain supreme leader, has emerged as a frontrunner to succeed him, and U.S. intelligence agencies ...
Iranian government making case for demise with indiscriminate attacks, EU’s Kallas says
Iran’s government is making a strong case for its demise by indiscriminately attacking its neighbours, EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas told reporters on Wednesday.
“Iran’s strategy is ...
US sub sank Iranian warship off Sri Lanka
A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday.
Sri Lankan Foreign minister Vijitha Herath ...
Russia says US attacked Iran on false pretext
Russia accused the United States on Wednesday of using an imaginary threat from Iran as a pretext to overthrow its constitutional order, and said Washington’s calls for Iranians to ...
First UK repatriation flight to leave Oman on Wednesday
A British chartered flight will leave Oman on Wednesday evening, prioritising vulnerable UK nationals who want to leave the region after the outbreak of conflict in the Middle East, the ...
Israel orders evacuation of swathe of south Lebanon
The Israeli military ordered the evacuation of a swathe of southern Lebanon on Wednesday, telling residents to move north of the Litani River on a third day of full-blown hostilities ...
Khamenei’s son Mojtaba is alive and favoured to succeed him, Iranian sources say
Mojtaba Khamenei, the powerful son of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, is alive and favoured to emerge as his father’s successor, two Iranian sources told Reuters on ...
Spain’s Sanchez to Trump: ‘You cannot play Russian roulette with the destiny of millions’
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Wednesday doubled down on his opposition to the attack on Iran by the United States and Israel, warning that the conflict risked triggering a ...
Iranians to bid farewell to late Supreme Leader Khamenei at Tehran ceremony
Iranians will bid farewell to late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a ceremony in Tehran late on Wednesday, a senior Iranian official told state media.
Hojjatoleslam Mahmoudi, head of ...
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US strike on Iran ‘ahead of game plan’ but global markets rattled, energy prices soar
U.S. forces continued a round-the-clock assault on Iran and Israel mounted a “broad wave” of strikes on Wednesday targeting Iranian missile sites and air defence systems in a campaign ...
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Tehran and Beirut judder from US-Israeli attacks as oil soars, shares slide
Explosions tore through Tehran and Beirut on Tuesday and stock markets around the world tumbled while oil prices soared at the prospect of a prolonged disruption to global energy supplies ...
Russia says war could backfire by spurring Iran and Arab nations to seek nuclear weapons
Russia warned on Tuesday that the war launched by the U.S. and Israel against Iran could result in the very outcome they were seeking to prevent, by spurring both ...
Passengers scrambling to find flights, routes, out of Middle East
Airline stocks in Asia and Europe extended losses on Tuesday as the U.S. and Israeli air war against Iran escalated, with carriers monitoring fuel price spikes and passengers scrambling ...
Drone hits fuel tank at Oman’s Duqm port
A fuel tank at Oman’s Duqm commercial port was hit on Tuesday when the facility came under attack from several unmanned aircraft, the state news agency said, citing a ...
Trump signals extended war as regional tensions explode
The US and Israeli air war against Iran widened, with no end in sight as Israel attacked Lebanon in response to strikes by Hezbollah and Iran kept up its attacks ...
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US orders some diplomatic staff to leave Middle East as Iran conflict escalates
The U.S. on Tuesday ordered non-emergency government personnel and their family members to leave Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq and Jordan and closed several diplomatic missions across the region as ...
Trump seeks to justify Iran war, but stated objectives shift
President Donald Trump on Monday sought to justify a broad, open-ended war on Iran, offering his most extensive public comments yet on an operation whose stated aims and timeline have ...
Trump: big wave in war with Iran yet to come
The ‘big wave’ is yet to come in the war with Iran, U.S. President Donald Trump told CNN on Monday, adding that Washington did not know who the country’...
Iran conflict widens to Lebanon, Kuwait mistakenly shoots down US jets
The U.S.-Israeli air war against Iran expanded on Monday with no end in sight, with Israel attacking Lebanon in response to strikes by Hezbollah, and Tehran firing missiles ...
US not veering into a new, endless war, Pentagon says
The Pentagon played down concerns on Monday that the U.S. attack on Iran risked plunging the United States into a new, open-ended conflict in the Middle East, even as ...
Hundreds of Iranians cross border into Turkey, witness says
Hundreds of Iranians crossed the border into Turkey on Monday afternoon as the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran expanded, a Reuters witness said, with those arriving speaking of fear ...