Category: 3. Middle East

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Iran carries out retaliatory attacks as Supreme Leader Khamenei is killed in US-Israeli attacks, pushing the region on edge.

Pro-Iranian protesters angered by the death of Iran supreme leader Ali Khamenei tried to storm the US consulate in Pakistan’s Karachi on Sunday, leaving eight dead, and the fortified Green Zone hosting Washington’s embassy in the Iraqi capital…

More explosions have been heard across the Gulf states as Iran carries out attacks in retaliation for attacks by the United States and Israel that killed its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top…

Iranian state television confirmed the death of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday, after US President Donald Trump said he had been killed.

The announcement came after the United States and Israel started launching waves of…

It’s 3:30 am and lights are slowly coming on in the homes lining a narrow Istanbul street as people are woken up by the rhythmic thump of a drum.

Emerging onto a balcony, Sibel Savas and her grandson look down as the drummer — or davulcu in…

Cheers in Tehran. Retaliation and mourning announced by Iran. Protests erupting in some parts of the Muslim world, celebrations in others.

The world greeted with trepidation the news Sunday that Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had…

By Maha El Dahan and Andrew Mills

DUBAI, March 1 (Reuters) – Loud blasts were heard in Dubai and the Qatari capital Doha for the second day on Sunday, witnesses said, as Iran’s retaliatory strikes on neighbouring Gulf states in response to U.S….

Thousands of mourners have gathered in the centre of Iran’s capital after the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei…

Donald Trump’s Republican allies in the United States have lined up to laud the strikes on Iran, as responses to the president’s war have largely split along partisan lines.

Despite the rise of a noninterventionist wing within Trump’s Make…

March 1 (Reuters) – The United States will hit Iran “with a force that has never been seen before,” U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday, should the Middle East nation retaliate for U.S. strikes.

“Iran just stated that they are going to hit…