When a conflict is framed as existential and leadership elimination becomes normalised, wars seldom remain limited ...

Defence secretary says Iran is 'increasingly indiscriminate, widespread and uncontrolled in the attacks it is mounting' ...

Tearful mourners gather at shrines and in city squares after state media confirms US-Israeli killing of Iranian supreme ...

The Basij is a paramilitary force formed after the fall of the Shah and on the orders of Iran’s first leader, Ruhollah Khomeini. It has been one of the main bodies responsible for suppressing dissent ...

In Gaza, meanwhile, Israel shut the Rafah border crossing with Egypt until further notice, just one month after it had reopened following more than two years of closure. The Israeli army seized ...

Impromptu celebrations broke out in cities across the country as the supreme leader's death was announced, followed by huge demonstrations of mourning and loyalty ...

Dubai appeared to be targeted not because of its proximity to US military bases, but because of what it represents ...

Khamanei's office accused the country’s enemies ‌of 'mental ‌warfare' ⁠after ⁠reports claimed the Supreme Leader had been ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi said that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and President Masoud Pezeshkian are still alive ...

Pahlavi, the Israel-aligned son of the country’s last shah, has been at the helm of a movement advocating the restoration of ...

A key figure in Iran’s Islamic revolution, Khamenei was killed along with his daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter ...

At least 115 people, almost all of them young girls, have been killed in an air strike on a primary school in southern Iran, ...