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Over 100 students have been killed and dozens injured in an Israeli airstrike on a girls’ primary school in the city of Minab, in southern Iran, according to the country’s news agency Tasnim. The attack comes amid ongoing airstrikes on the Islamic Republic by Israel and the US.
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MONTREAL, Canada — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney expressed support Saturday for US strikes targeting Iran, saying Tehran had failed to dismantle its nuclear program and cease support for militant groups.
British opposition parties have urged the Labour government to join the US and Israeli attack on Iran after it emerged that British bases were not used in the initial strikes.
Hossein, who lives in eastern Tehran, says his parents’ home was completely destroyed by Israeli strikes on Saturday.
A senior Iranian official told Al Jazeera that Tehran’s response to the joint US and Israeli attacks “continues with no set timeframe.”
An Israeli strike has hit an elementary girls’ school in Minab, a city in the Hormozgan province of southern Iran, killing at least 51 people, state media reported, as the immediate civilian cost from Israel and the United States’ huge bombardment of Iran comes into sharper focus.
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has said his country refused to be dragged into regional war.
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi has strongly condemned the ongoing US and Israeli attacks on Iran, calling them “wholly unprovoked, illegal, and illegitimate.”
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British opposition parties have urged the Labour government to join the US and Israeli attack on Iran after it emerged that British bases were not used in the initial strikes.
At least 51 people have been killed after an Israeli strike hit a school in Iran, local officials told Tasnim News Agency. MEE’s correspondent reported that the attack occurred at around 11:30 am local time, striking Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, in southern Iran pic.twitter.com/WN7r5M14Y9
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The death toll from an air strike on a girls’ school in Iran has risen to 51, state media reported.
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MANILA, Philippines — Flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) canceled or diverted several flights in select Middle East countries due to operational restrictions brought about by the attacks of the US and Israel on Iran on Saturday.
The pattern of US and Israeli strikes on Iran and Tehran's retaliation signals a more "expansive and escalatory" conflict compared to the 12 day war last June, according to Iran analyst Hamidreza Azizi.
Iranian eyewitnesses are still grappling with the shock and fear after the US-Israeli strikes, describing scenes of chaos, explosions, and uncertainty across Tehran.
The death toll from an air strike on a girls’ school in Iran has risen to 40, according to Mehr News Agency.
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U.S. President Donald Trump urged the Iranian people to “take over your government” in a video address posted Saturday. His comments came after the U.S. and Israel launched an attack on Iran.
Israelis rushed to shelters, car parks, and underground stations after the military launched sweeping strikes against Iran.
El Ministerio de Exteriores de Rusia condenó el sábado los ataques de Estados Unidos e Israel a Irán describiéndolos como un “acto de agresión armada premeditado y no provocado contra un Estado soberano e independiente, miembro de Naciones Unidas”, y exigió el cese inmediato de la campaña militar y el regreso a la d…
The fate of senior Iranian officials has been the focus of intense speculation since US and Israeli strikes began on Tehran early this morning.
A wave of United States and Israeli strikes on Iran, and retaliation by Tehran, have triggered an outburst of regional violence, forcing much of the Middle East’s airspace to shut down and reverberating across the globe.
Trabajadores cargan suministros médicos en un avión de Air India hacia India, en el Aeropuerto Ben Gurion, cerca de Tel Aviv, Israel, el 4 de mayo de 2021. (Menahem Kahana/Pool Foto vía AP, archivo)
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The United States and Israel have launched strikes on Iran despite ongoing talks between Washington and Tehran over Iran’s nuclear programme.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday condemned the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran as “a pre-planned and unprovoked act of armed aggression against a sovereign and independent U.N. member state,” demanding an immediate halt to the military campaign and a return to diplomacy.
At least 24 girls have been killed in an air strike on an elementary school in southern Iran, local authorities said, as the United States and Israel ramps up attacks on the country.
Iran has targeted United States assets across the Gulf Arab states in retaliation for a huge joint attack on Iran by the US and Israel, as the region’s worst fears of being ignited in the flames of a sustained war loom.
At least 24 people have been killed after an Israeli strike hit a school in Iran, local officials told Tasnim News Agency.
EU High Representative Kaja Kallas visits the coast guard ship KV Bjornoya, in Tromso, Norway, Tuesday Feb. 3, 2026. (Rune Stoltz Bertinussen/NTB Scanpix via AP)
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FILE -Workers load medical aid onto an Air India plane to be flown to India, at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, May 4, 2021. (Menahem Kahana/Pool Photo via AP, File)
An air strike hit a girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, killing five students, Iranian state media reported.
PARIS, France (AFP) -- Countries in the Middle East and around the world voiced fear of a regional conflagration after the United States and Israel carried out long-feared strikes on Iran on Saturday.
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Milad, 31, was at work in his mobile phone shop on Hafez Street in central Tehran when the explosions began. His shop is close to Republic Street, near one of the reported blast sites.