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Thousands of Kurdish fighters launched a ground offensive inside Iran on Wednesday, according to reports — following claims that Israel and the US were hoping that the armed ethnic minority group could help overthrow the Islamist regime.
Iranian weapon debris, blown to pieces or mechanically crippled, keeps dropping from the Middle East sky.
Israel has carried out air strikes targeting security forces across Iran on the fifth day of the US-Israeli assault, as the death toll surpassed 1,000 and Iran launched more counterattacks and warned of the destruction of military and economic infrastructure across the Middle East.
Washington’s one-two punch capturing Venezuela’s leader and then killing Iran’s in coordination with Israel has put Beijing on the back foot, according to former U.S. officials who have helped craft China policy.
Mackenzie Arnold watched the Matildas beat the Philippines from the sidelines. (Getty Images: Paul Kane)
Thousands of Americans have been trapped in the Middle East since the US and Israel began their surprise military attack on Iran – and many are desperately pleading with the US government on social media to get them out.
Chair of joint chiefs of staff and others say US depleting supply, even as Trump administration claims otherwise
The US military and the Israeli Defense Forces continue unleashing their might on the Iranian regime — and precise intelligence, overwhelming firepower and a bit of good luck could soon usher the downfall of the Islamic Republic.
Senate Republicans voted to block a Democrat-led resolution on Wednesday that would rein in President Trump’s military authority against Iran — just days after the US and Israel struck Tehran, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and dozens of other high-ranking officials.
Washington, DC – The United States Senate has failed to pass a resolution seeking to rein in US President Donald Trump’s war with Iran.
A pair of students at the University of South Florida refused to condemn the Iranian regime during a bizarre streetside debate — and eagerly accepted a one-way ticket to the war-torn country for a “little trip around the Middle East.”
Experts say backing Iran’s ethnic communities could ‘open up a hornet’s nest’ and increase risk of chaotic civil war
Tensions are rising between US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio over the US’s approach to the war on Iran, three former US officials and a senior regional official familiar with the matter told Middle East Eye.
Un miembro del Partido Democrático del Kurdistán Iraní en un punto de inspección ubicado antes de una de sus bases, el viernes 27 de febrero de 2026, en Koya, en el distrito de Irbil, Irak. (AP Foto/Rashid Yahya)
The risk of a cyclone still remains for northern Queensland, while other parts of the state are being warned to brace for heavy rains.According to Weatherzone, a tropical low forming off the Queensland coast could make landfall near Townsville on Friday, with a moderate chance it will turn into a cyclone.Even if the…
The market gyrations over the Iran conflict are starting to feel a bit like “Liberation Day” – and that could be a good thing.
The city of Tehran has been subjected to heavy aerial bombardment by US and Israeli forces, with the strikes targeting multiple government and public sites across the Iranian capital, according to RT’s Tehran bureau chief, Hami Hamedi.
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Spain on Wednesday doubled down on its opposition to Washington's use of its bases against Iran, after the White House Press Secretary said Madrid had "agreed to cooperate with the US military".
A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship in international waters, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday. In addition to striking Tehran, Israel hit the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon, while Iran struck American and Israeli targets in Bahrain and Kuwait.
Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
The United States has gone to war with Iran. We haven’t declared war, mind you. In the words of Conrad Brean: “We’re not declaring war, we’re going to war. We haven’t declared war since the Second World War. We’re going to war.”
The leader says the chaos triggered by the Iran crisis has led to the emergence of other buyers willing to pay top dollar for fuel
For more than two decades, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been circling a single horizon.
Last week, the world was reminded that history often moves in two directions at once. The US and Israel carried out military strikes against Iran, followed by Iranian retaliation. At nearly the same time, President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea met President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil to deepen bilateral coo…
By Farhad Ibragimov – lecturer at the Faculty of Economics at RUDN University, visiting lecturer at the Institute of Social Sciences of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Hezbollah will confront "Israeli-American aggression" and will not surrender despite the "imbalance in capabilities", the head of the Iran-backed Lebanese group Naim Qassem said Wednesday night in a televised speech.
Sam Kerr scored the winning goal in the Matildas' opening Women's Asian Cup game. (Getty Images: Janelle St Pierre)
Member of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan PDKI stands at a checkpoint leading to their base in Koya district of Irbil, Iraq, Friday, Feb. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Rashid Yahya)
The editor-in-chief of Independent Arabia suggested in a television interview on Tuesday that not all attacks on the Gulf states may be coming from Iran, and that the US and Israel could lure them into the war, only to later abandon them.
Pedro Sanchez has doubled down on his criticism of the US and Israel's military action against Iran despite pressure from Donald Trump. (AP: Michael Probst)
Iranian officials have accused Israel of carrying out some of the drone strikes on energy and civilian sites in the Arabian Gulf, calling the attacks a calculated bid to spark regional fury and pull Arab states into the war on Tehran.
With Iran’s supreme leader killed and retaliation unfolding, the US and Israel appear to be testing the durability of Iran. But Iran’s political system was designed to survive leadership loss and military pressure. What does Washington misunderstand about Tehran’s structure, and how far is Iran prepared to go? Ameri…
Hospital authorities in the Sri Lankan port city of Galle said 87 bodies were brought in by military rescuers. Source: AAP / Antonio Lacerda/EPA
Spain has denied the White House’s claim that Madrid is now cooperating militarily with Washington amid the war with Iran, despite President Donald Trump’s threat to use trade to punish the Spanish authorities for their stance.
Washington, DC – The United States Senate is expected to hold an initial vote on a resolution to rein in US President Donald Trump’s war with Iran, with top Democrat Chuck Schumer saying he fears “now more than ever” that the administration is planning to deploy boots on the ground.
The Iran Embassy in Colombo on Tuesday announced that a book of condolence will remain opened at the Residence of the Ambassador at No. 222, Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo 7, from March 4 – 6 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. following the reported death of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Following yesterday’s 1,291 points plunge in the market, triggered by the outbreak of the Iran–Israel conflict that led to panic selling and a temporary trading halt, the Colombo Bourse recorded modest gains yesterday,
Sri Lanka’s tea exporters are facing fresh uncertainty as regional conflict disrupts shipping routes to the Middle East while Iran’s currency crisis and banking restrictions continue to complicate the country’s tea-for-oil barter trade with Tehran.
A ceremony commemorating Iran’s late leader Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran has been postponed, according to Iran’s Tasnim news agency, days after he was assassinated along with family members in joint air strikes by Israel and the United States.
California governor, promoting his memoir in LA, was asked if US should rethink military partnership with Israel
Despite reports of an erosion of trust between Washington and its Gulf partners as they come under a barrage of Iranian rockets, the White House said on Wednesday that those countries have praised the US president for starting the war and targeting "the rogue Iranian terrorist regime".
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US and Israeli forces took out the Iranian official behind a plot to assassinate President Trump in the final days of the 2024 election campaign, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth revealed Wednesday.
At times like this you have to thank your lucky stars that the opposition leader is not in Downing Street
Deploying the world’s most powerful military seems to exert an almost erotic fascination for Donald Trump
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Children hold a sign protesting war against Iran during an antiwar demonstration at Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/LM Otero)