Britain Says It’s Up to U.S. to Justify Iran Strikes Amid Global Backlash
LONDON – Britain’s Defence Secretary John Healey on Sunday declined to explicitly back strikes by the United States and Israel on Iran, saying it was for the U.S. to “set out the legal basis of the action it took”. Iran’s…
Israel Strikes Tehran Again After Killing Iran’s Supreme Leader — Leadership Council Takes Over
JERUSALEM/TELAVIV/DUBAI – Israel launched a new wave of strikes on Tehran on Sunday and Iran responded with more missile barrages, a day after the killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei pitched the Middle East and the global economy into deepening…
Who might succeed in Iran’s theocratic system of power?
The killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in U.S. and Israeli strikes throws the survival of the country’s theocratic system into jeopardy, and it is hard to predict who might succeed him or what will happen next. Strikes…
Merz Pushes ‘Day After’ Plan for Iran as Europe Weighs Fallout of Strikes
BERLIN – German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called on U.S. and European partners to start planning for the future of Iran and the region, saying the people of Iran deserved a better future after U.S. and Israeli strikes killed its supreme…
Global Markets Turn to Safe Havens as Iran Strikes Lift Yen and Swiss Franc
LONDON – The safe-haven Swiss franc and Japanese yen firmed, while the euro slid as trading resumed after a weekend that saw the United States and Israel launch their most ambitious attacks on Iran in decades, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah…
Trump Says U.S. Forces Sinking Iranian Navy Amid Intensifying Iran Conflict
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that the U.S. military was sinking Iran’s Navy, having destroyed nine Iranian warships so far and “going after the rest.” Trump made the announcement in a social media post as the…
Trump Claims Iran Open to Talks Amid Escalating Conflict
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Iran’s new leadership wants to talk to him and that he has agreed, according to an interview with the Atlantic magazine. “They want to talk, and I have agreed to…
Global Travel Chaos Worsens as US-Iran Conflict Grounds Thousands of Flights
DUBAI – Global air travel remained heavily disrupted on Sunday as the war in Iran kept major Middle Eastern airports, including Dubai, the world’s busiest international hub, closed for a second day in one of the sharpest aviation shocks in…
Trump Says US Operations Against Iran Moving ‘Ahead of Schedule’
U.S. President Donald Trump told CNBC on Sunday that U.S. military operations against Iran are “ahead of schedule.”
US says it sinks Iranian warship
WASHINGTON – The U.S. military said on Sunday it has sunk an Iranian warship and called on Iranian forces to lay down their arms and leave their posts. The U.S. Central Command, which is overseeing ongoing U.S. attacks on Iran,…
Trump Claims 48 Iranian Leaders Killed in US-Israeli Iran Strikes
WASHINGTON- U.S. President Donald Trump told Fox News on Sunday that 48 leaders have been killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran. “It’s moving along. It’s moving along rapidly. This has been this way for 47 years,” he was…
Trump says Iran’s Khamenei is dead
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday. “Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead,” Trump said on Truth Social, without elaborating on the source of the information.
Trump administration cannot ‘terrorize’ Minnesota’s refugees with arrests, US judge rules
A federal judge on Friday said he would not allow President Donald Trump’s administration to “terrorize” Minnesota’s 5,600 refugees by arresting and detaining them under a new policy that “turns the refugees’ American Dream into a dystopian nightmare.” U.S. District…
Reports Suggest Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei May Be Killed After US‑Israel Strikes; Status Unclear
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who turned the country into a powerful anti-U.S. force and extended its military influence across the Middle East while crushing repeated domestic unrest, was killed in Israeli, U.S. strikes, senior Israeli official told Reuters…
Trump’s Iran strike tests MAGA unity ahead of midterms
WASHINGTON – Some of the most prominent voices within Donald Trump’s MAGA movement spoke out on Saturday against his attack on Iran, warning it could hurt Republicans in November’s midterm elections, but there was no immediate sign of outright rebellion…
Trump warns some Americans may die amid US strikes in Iran
PALM BEACH – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday there could be U.S. casualties after he announced the United States conducted “major combat operations” in Iran. The strikes, which Trump said were aimed at destroying Iranian missiles and annihilating…
US-Israeli attack triggers fear and panic in Iran
DUBAI – Iranians fled cities in search of safety, and long queues formed at fuel stations as an attack on Iran by the United States and Israel spread fear and panic throughout the country. When the strikes began on Saturday…
Netanyahu says there are signs Khamenei dead, calls on Iranians to ‘finish the job’
WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM/DUBAI/DOHA – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested on Saturday that Israel and the United States had killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and called on Iranians to “take to the streets and finish the job.” There were many signs…
How US-Iran tensions could shape world markets
LONDON/ABU DHABI – The United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran on Saturday, targeting its leadership and plunging the Middle East into a new conflict that President Donald Trump said would end a security threat and give Iranians a…
US strikes on Iran spark travel chaos as airlines cancel flights
DUBAI/LONDON – Airlines suspended flights across the Middle East on Saturday, including to and from the world’s busiest travel hub Dubai, after the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran. Flight maps showed airspace over Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Israel and…