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Pakistani police on Sunday clashed with protesters who breached the outer wall of the U.S. consulate in Karachi , leaving nine people dead, following news of U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Pro-Iranian...

A Palau-flagged oil tanker was hit off Oman's Musandam peninsula on Sunday injuring four people, the country's maritime security centre said, following drone strikes on the Gulf country's commercial port of Duqm . The incidents mark the first time targets...

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) killed a Palestinian young man and carried out a large-scale arrest campaign in the West Bank last night and at dawn Sunday. According to media sources, 25-year-old Mohamed Masalmeh was pronounced dead today after...

The Israeli military said on Sunday that it had begun striking targets deep inside Tehran , a day after a joint US-Israeli attack killed Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei . "The IDF is striking targets that belong to...

Iraq's top Shia Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani , on Sunday urged Iranians to remain united as Iraqis mourned supreme leader Ali Khamenei following his death in US and Israeli strikes. Baghdad announced a three-day mourning period...

GAZA, (PIC) Gaza border crossings, essential for delivering humanitarian aid and evacuating patients, were shut Saturday as Israeli and US forces launched large-scale attacks on Iran. The Israeli occupation government announced the closure of border crossings with Gaza in a statement yesterday. The...

TEHRAN, (PIC) Iran’s state television announced early Sunday morning the assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, following attacks carried out by the US and Israeli armies on the country. The Israeli occupation army, for its part, claimed that in the first strikes...

WEST BANK, (PIC) Extremist settler groups assaulted a Palestinian citizen, damaged his car, and stole two horses belonging to another citizen in separate incidents in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Saturday. In the northeast of Ramallah, settlers assaulted a young...

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Aqsa Mosque was empty of Muslim worshipers after the Israeli occupation police closed its gates and imposed strict security measures in Jerusalem on Saturday, the 11th day of Ramadan, amid the Zio-American aggression against Iran. Local sources reported...

Israel and the U.S. timed their attack on Iran on Saturday to coincide with a meeting the country’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei , was holding with top aides, according to two U.S. sources and a U.S. official...

After US and Israeli missiles struck Iran’s nuclear sites in June 2025, Tehran responded with a limited attack on the American airbase in Qatar. Five years before that, a US drone strike against Qasem Soleimani, head of the powerful Islamic...

Delegates from around 20 countries will hold three days of “informal” talks in Japan from Sunday aimed at salvaging efforts towards a landmark global treaty on plastic pollution. Plastic waste on a beach on Henderson Island, one of the most...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader for 36 years, has been killed in US and Israeli airstrikes on his country, according to US President Donald Trump. Iran did not immediately confirm his death. As one of Iran’s longest-serving leaders, Khamenei...

After the largest buildup of U.S. warships and aircraft in the Middle East in decades, American and Israeli military forces launched a massive assault on Iran on February 28, 2026. President Donald Trump, after calling the attacks “major combat operations”...

The United Nations' rights chief deplored Saturday's strikes in the Middle East and urged all parties to return to negotiations, saying attacks would only result in "death, destruction and human misery". "I deplore the military strikes across Iran...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday he was "deeply disturbed" by the Israeli-US attacks on Iran , but also condemned Tehran's retaliatory strikes on the Gulf, demanding action to end the conflict. The confrontation began earlier on Saturday...

German shipowners Hapag-Lloyd, the fifth largest in the world, announced Saturday it was suspending traffic by its vessels through the Strait of Hormuz because of the unfolding conflict in the region . "Due to the conflict in the...

After the third round of nuclear talks between Tehran and Washington failed to produce meaningful progress, the US followed through on its threats against the Iranian regime. On the morning of February 8, in a joint operation with Israel, the...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said the Strait of Hormuz , a vital waterway for oil and gas shipments, is unsafe due to US and Israeli attacks and was therefore closed to ships on Saturday, local media reported. "The IRGC...

Iran called Saturday for an emergency meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog to discuss "baseless" US and Israeli claims that Tehran's atomic programme partly justified their military action against it. "In light of ongoing acts of aggression by...

Neither the U.S. nor Israel has even attempted to hide the fact that this aggression is being carried out to facilitate a regime change that they would find amenable to their goals of total domination of the entire region of...

Three residential buildings in and around the Bahraini capital Manama were damaged by drone strikes and debris from an intercepted missile, the interior ministry said on Saturday. Iran has carried out retaliatory strikes across the oil-rich Gulf following...

TUCSON — ICE terrorizes parts of America. Ice paralyzes much of the rest. Polls turn against a corrupt, climate-denying autocrat who sees the White House as his Versailles Palace and runs roughshod across the globe jabbing big sticks into hornets’...

Oil markets currently closed for the weekend are set to see price swings next week as the impact from the U.S. and Israeli strikes on oil supplies from the Middle East remains unclear. Scenarios before the latest conflict with Iran foresaw...