17 h. ago Israel threatens to escalate involvement in Syria as a ceasefire collapses

Clashes have intensified in Syria after a ceasefire between government forces and Druze armed groups broke down

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8 d. ago Lammy threatens more sanctions on Israel if ceasefire isn’t reached within weeks

The foreign secretary also refused to set a timeframe for when the UK would recognise Palestinian statehood

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3 w. ago Quit the regime in 12 hours or you and your family are next, Mossad tells Iranian generals

Israel's shadowy intelligence agency Mossad threatened Iranian generals and their families with imminent assassination if they did not quit the Ayatollah's regime.

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3 w. ago Iran accused of kidnapping journalist's family in retaliation for coverage of Israel war

Iran detained the family members of an Iran International journalist Saturday in retaliation for the channel's coverage of the country's war with Israel, threatening to hold them until the journalist resigned from her position.

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3 w. ago Trump in the Situation Room as he 'considers' using 30,000lb bombs on Iran and Israel threatens to assassinate Supreme Leader: Live updates

President Trump has entered the Situation Room as he mulls using a 30,000lb 'bunker buster' bomb to devastate Iran's nuclear capabilities after Iran escalated its attacks on Israel overnight.

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3 w. ago Iran's cratered nuclear reactor after Israel's precision strike revealed as Tel Aviv threatens to assassinate supreme leader and Trump considers joining war: Live updates

Benjamin Netanyahu has declared 'no one is immune' from an Israeli attack after his defence minister insisted Iran 's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei 'can no longer be allowed to exist'.

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3 w. ago Iran's cratered nuclear reactor after Israel's precision strike revealed as Tel Aviv threatens to assassinate supreme leader and Trump considers joining war

Benjamin Netanyahu has declared 'no one is immune' from an Israeli attack after his defence minister insisted Iran 's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei 'can no longer be allowed to exist'.

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3 w. ago UK's central bank set to keep interest rates on hold amid Middle East uncertainties

The Bank of England is set to keep interest rates on hold as fears grow that the conflict between Israel and Iran will escalate to involve the United States and send oil prices soaring and push U.K. inflation further above target

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4 w. ago Iran leader threatens ‘irreparable damage’ if US joins fight and rejects Trump call for surrender – Israel

Ayatollah Khamenei says Iran will not accept demand for surrender and warns against threatening languageLiving in Iran: how have you been affected?Living in Israel: how have you been affected?Iran said on Wednesday it had detained five suspected agents of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency on charges of “tarnishing” the country’s image online, Iranian news agencies reported.“These mercenaries sought to sow fear among the public and tarnish the image of the sacred system of the Islamic Republic of Iran through their calculated activities online,” Tasnim and SNA news agencies quoted a statement from the Revolutionary Guards as saying. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Senate Republicans circle wagons as Trump beats war drum on Iran: ‘They’ve all had their spines removed’

Senate Republicans are largely standing with President Donald Trump as he escalates U.S. involvement in Israel’s war with Iran.

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4 w. ago ‘Not our war’: bipartisan US lawmakers back resolution to block involvement in Iran

Republican Thomas Massie joins with Democrats in effort to require Congress approval before Trump attacks IranAs Donald Trump publicly threatens to join Israel in attacking Iran, an unlikely coalition of lawmakers has moved to prevent the president from involving US forces in the conflict without Congress’s approval.On Tuesday, Republican congressman Thomas Massie, whose libertarian-tinged politics have often put him at odds with Trump, joined with several progressive Democrats to introduce in the House of Representatives a war powers resolution that would require a vote by Congress before Trump could attack Iran. Democrat Tim Kaine has introduced companion legislation in the Senate. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Trump says 'we're not going to kill Iran's "supreme leader"... yet' and warns 'our patience is wearing thin' as Israel threatens 'pager plot 2.0' and US warplanes head for Gulf

Donald Trump declared he wants a 'complete give-up' by Iran and a 'real end' to its nuclear program, which he suggested would not be achieved through a ceasefire deal.

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4 w. ago Cristiano Ronaldo sends Donald Trump 'peace' message on signed jersey after president threatened to join Israel

Cristiano Ronaldo has urged Donald Trump to help broker peace, by writing the message on a Portugal shirt gifted to the US president amid the war raging between Israel and Iran.

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