Category: 3. Middle East

Iranian top officials vowed Sunday to avenge their slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and declared a new wave of strikes on US bases in the Gulf, defying US President Donald Trump’s threat of an unprecedented escalation in force.

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The crossing with Egypt is considered vital for the delivery of humanitarian aid and the evacuation of critically ill patients.

Security chief Ali Larijani pledges swift establishment of a provisional council as Iran navigates its leadership transition.

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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….