Iran will hold funerals Wednesday for Larijani and another powerful figure killed Tuesday by Israel, Gholamreza Soleimani

Kent has opposed military interventions

A senior Iranian ​official said Iran's new supreme leader rejected de-escalation offers conveyed by intermediary countries

Iran's semi-official Fars news agency confirms

In a rare admission, Trump said Monday that he was surprised by the Iranian reprisals

Early Wednesday, Israel's army also warned it would strike a building in Aaqbiyeh

The UN yesterday urged Israel to immediately halt its dramatic settlement expansion in the West Bank, raising concerns of “ethnic cleansing” with over 36,000 Palestinians displaced in a single year.

Astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star in our neighbourhood of the Milky Way galaxy that presents a unique hellscape - covered with a perpetual ocean of magma and enveloped by a noxious and fiercely hot sulfur-rich atmosphere.

Israel yesterday claimed to have killed Iran’s security chief, Ali Larijani, while a senior Iranian official said the new supreme leader had rejected de-escalation offers conveyed by intermediaries, demanding Israel and the US first be “brought to their knees”.

Multiple explosions staged by suspected suicide bombers rocked the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 100 others, police said yesterday.

US President Donald Trump vowed Monday to “take” Cuba as the communist island plunged into darkness under a total power blackout linked to a crippling oil embargo imposed by Washington.

An Israeli airstrike killed at least three people including a child in the Gaza Strip yesterday, local health authorities said, the latest violence jeopardising the ceasefire which has been under strain during the Israeli-US war against Iran.

Hundreds of Philippine tricycle drivers lined up in Manila yesterday for cash handouts they hope will provide temporary relief from a war-driven surge in fuel prices that has left the country scrambling for short-term answers.

President Donald Trump was warned that attacking Iran could trigger retaliation against US Gulf allies despite his claims on Monday that Tehran’s reaction came as a surprise, said a US official and two sources familiar with US intelligence reports.

An extra 45 million people could face acute hunger if the Mideast war carried on through June, swelling the number worldwide to a “terrible” high, the United Nations warned yesterday.

New measures to remain in place indefinitely to contain fuel reserves

The curious ritual of presidentially gifted shoes reveals how performance, loyalty and hierarchy operate inside Trump’s Washington

Saudi Supreme Court calls on Muslims across the Kingdom to sight the Shawwal moon

Khamenei's stance for revenge against the US and Israel is 'very tough and serious.'

Israel's defence minister made the claim