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A commercial oil tanker was set ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz after it was struck by an Iranian suicide drone, the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Saturday, as the US Navy has yet to begin a mission to safeguard ships through the region.
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran launched waves of missile and drone attacks on its Gulf neighbours hosting US forces on Saturday and vowed no surrender despite threats from President Donald Trump to widen the conflict.
One person was killed in Dubai on Saturday after debris from an "aerial interception" fell on a vehicle, authorities said, as Iran continued its retaliatory strikes across the Gulf.
A car drives past burned buildings after an Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs. (Reuters: Stringer)
ARCHIVO – Un militar controla un dron FPV de la empresa General Cherry en el polígono, en Ucrania, el 4 de diciembre de 2025. (AP Foto/Evgeniy Maloletka, Archivo)
Anthony Albanese’s support for actions that do not adhere to international law stands in stark contrast to the principles demonstrated by Labor two decades ago
The Australian government has backed many of US President Donald Trump's operations, but avoided stating outright support or opposition for some.
President Trump joined a solemn ceremony at Dover Air Force Base Saturday to mark the final homecoming of six Army Reserve soldiers killed when an Iranian drone struck a US facility in Kuwait.
Mojtaba Khamenei — the expected next supreme leader — was reportedly wounded in an Israeli air strike.
As Masoud Pezeshkian tries to de-escalate conflict, hardliners urge installation of new supreme leader to marginalise the president
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More than 150 Iranian nationals, including diplomats and their families, left Lebanon on Saturday, a senior Lebanese security source told Reuters, after an Israeli military spokesperson threatened "representatives" of Iran in Lebanon.
The United Arab Emirates ministry of defence has said its air defence systems are currently responding to “incoming missile and drone threats from Iran”.
A little-known Melbourne company bankrolled by high-profile rich listers – and a Kremlin “slush fund” – is at the centre of Australia’s first major criminal investigation into Russian sanctions evasion.
A member of Iran's Assembly of Experts said Saturday the body would meet within a day to choose the country's next supreme leader, Iranian media reported.
WASHINGTON — The United States on Saturday condemned Iran's drone strikes earlier this week on an Azerbaijan border region, describing the attack as a "needless escalation" of aggression by Tehran during the Middle East war.
Kuwait said Saturday that it has cut oil production and refining output because tankers cannot transit the Persian Gulf due to threats from Iran.
Iranian foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Saturday condemned the US attack on Iran's freshwater desalination plant and warned Washington of "grave consequences."
Report indicates that US intelligence officials question effectiveness of strikes to produce regime change in Iran
B-1 Lancers arrive at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire after Starmer allows US to use UK as a base for ‘defensive’ action
The war in Iran has already caused the cost of plane tickets to rise, experts say.
A loud explosion was heard in Dubai on Saturday evening, AFP journalists reported, while Iran continued to launch missiles and drones at targets across the Gulf.
Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced that the "United States has started using British bases for specific defensive operations to prevent Iran firing missiles into the region, which is putting British lives at risk".
THE United States-Israel war on Iran has ushered us into a new age of warfare.
Missiles rained on Iran Saturday after President Trump warned that the nation could face “complete destruction and certain death.”
As the US waives its ban on India buying Putin’s oil for 30 days, Europe must bolster its own measures, such as stopping the flow of luxury cars
More than 50,000 protesters have marched on the US embassy in London demanding an end to US-Israeli strikes on Iran.
Captain Jon Rahm of Legion XIII celebrates during the second round of the LIV Golf tournament at Grange Golf Club, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026 in Adelaide, Australia. (Jon Ferrey/LIV Golf via AP)
Humo emerge tras un ataque con drones iraníes en la zona portuaria de Dubái, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, el domingo 1 de marzo de 2026. (Foto AP/Fatima Shbair)
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Donald Trump’s targeting of Tehran will push Pyongyang to feel ‘vindicated’ in developing nuclear weapons for its own security, analysts say
The Israeli military has said it destroyed sixteen aircraft belonging to the IRGC's Quds Force in overnight strikes on Iran.
As the US-Israel war on Iran began last week and Gaza’s crossings were shut, panic spread through the densely populated enclave, raising fears of a famine returning.
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A father and his daughter have been killed in an Israeli drone attack in central Khan Younis, southern Gaza, as Palestinians continue to suffer amid worldwide attention on the United States-Israeli war on Iran.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) says it has targeted a Marshall islands-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf.
Mayor Mamdani’s comrades in the Democratic Socialists of America called for “ending the US empire” and mourned the “extrajudicial killing of the supreme leader” during a mass call this week that slammed the US strikes in Iran.
A serviceman controls an FPV drone of “General Cherry” company at the polygon in Ukraine, on Dec. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Smoke rises after an Iranian drone attack in the port area of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
VATINCAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV named a new ambassador to the United States on Saturday, amid diplomatic tensions over the Trump administration's war on Iran and its hardline migration policy.
Iran remains under a near-complete internet blackout, data monitoring site NetBlocks, said on Saturday.
Tehran, Iran – Authorities have issued a series of warnings promising use of force against anyone in the country engaging in actions perceived to harm national security and aid “enemies”, as war with the United States and Israel enters its second week.
Takeshi Ebisawa, sentenced to 20 years in prison last week, believed he was selling weapons-grade plutonium to Iran
This combination of images provided by the U.S. Army taken on May 16, 2025 shows, from left, Sgt. Declan Coady, 20, of Des Moines, Iowa, Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, Minn., Capt. Cody Khork, 35, of Lakeland, Fla., and Sgt. 1st Class Noah Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, Neb. (Sgt. Brent Newton/U.S. …
Pope Leo XIV holds his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
For many veterans of post-9/11 wars, the strikes on Iran bring troubling echoes of the 2003 invasion of Iraq
President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, the Kremlin said late Friday, as the United States and Israel continued to escalate their attacks against Iran.
US President Donald Trump has released a new threatening statement to Iran, just hours after Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian issued an apology for previous strikes on Gulf countries.
Peregrinos musulmanes rezan mientras rodean la Kaaba, el edificio cúbico ubicado en la Gran Mezquita, durante una peregrinación menor, llamada Umrah, en la ciudad de La Meca, santa para el islam, en Arabia Saudí, el 7 de diciembre de 2025. (AP Foto/Amr Nabil, archivo)
President Trump warned that Iran would be ‘hit very hard’ on Saturday as the US forces’ “Operation Epic Fury” enters its second week.