3 h. ago Starmer and Trump call for Iran to return to negotiating table after US strikes

The two leaders spoke on Sunday night after the US launched air raids and missile attacks on key Iranian nuclear facilities.

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8 h. ago Shocking new satellite images show damage to Iranian nuclear sites after US's precision attacks on facility

President Donald Trump last night ordered six B-2 stealth bombers to drop a dozen 30,000-pound 'bunker buster' bombs on the base hidden deep inside a mountain.

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10 h. ago US WW3 fears as officials 'do not seek war with Iran' despite missile strikes

The United States does not seek war with Iran, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said Sunday after a missile attack on the country's nuclear facilities, while Vice President JD Vance said the strikes have given Tehran a chance to negotiate

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12 h. ago US says its strikes on Iranian nuclear sites caused ‘severe damage’

US defence secretary says planes were used as decoys ahead of attacks

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15 h. ago UK must push for diplomatic solution following US strikes on Iran, says Swinney

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has urged Iran to return to negotiations following the overnight attacks on Tehran’s nuclear facilities.

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22 h. ago What is Iran’s Fordow nuclear site and why did Israel want a US strike?

Donald Trump said the strikes were a ‘military success’, but why was the US involved in attacking the nuclear enrichment facility?US strikes Iran – follow it liveFull report: Trump: US has ‘totally obliterated’ Iranian nuclear sitesUS attack on Iran: what we know so farPresident Donald Trump on Saturday said that a US attack on Iran’s three principal nuclear sites: Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow had led to the “obliteration” of its key enrichment facilities. Later Iranian media acknowledged part of the Fordow site had been “attacked by enemy strikes”.“Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horrible destructive enterprise. Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility,” said Trump on Saturday night. “The strikes were a spectacular military success.” Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Starmer 'must give green light for Trump's Iran strikes': Frantic diplomacy as US could launch nuclear bunker raids from Diego Garcia base

Donald Trump is keeping the world guessing about whether he will join Israeli attacks on Tehran's nuclear facilities.

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6 d. ago Syrian general says missing US journalist Austin Tice was killed

Bassam Hassan, a top general under Assad, reportedly gave news regarding American who went missing in 2012A high-ranking Syrian general under former president Bashar al-Assad who is now in Lebanon has reportedly told US investigators that the American journalist Austin Tice, who disappeared in 2012, is dead.Bassam Hassan was a top security adviser once accused of facilitating chemical attacks on civilians. In a recent meeting with the FBI and CIA, he claimed that Assad – who was ousted in December and has since fled to Moscow – ordered Tice’s execution, according to the New York Times and the BBC, which first reported the allegation. Each media organization cited sources familiar with the matter. Hassan’s claims remain unverified. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Netanyahu outplayed Trump on Iran. Now the US risks being mired in another war | Mohamad Bazzi

If Trump wants to be the peacemaker he claims to be, he must negotiate a new deal with TehranBefore dawn on Friday, Israel unleashed a wave of air strikes against more than 100 targets in Iran, including nuclear facilities, ballistic missile factories and air defense systems. The surprise Israeli attack also killed some of Iran’s most senior military commanders and nuclear scientists. The Iranian regime called it a “declaration of war” – and western powers raced to prevent a wider regional conflict that could draw in the US along with other countries in the Middle East.While the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, claims that he’s trying to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, the attack is as much intended to blow up ongoing negotiations between Tehran and Donald Trump’s administration. While Trump’s overall foreign policy has been a disaster, for months he had resisted Netanyahu’s pleas to give Israel a green light to attack Iran, with US assistance. Trump insiste...

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9 d. ago Further airstrikes reported in Iran as Trump says ‘we knew everything’ about Israeli attacks – live

Iranian state media reports explosions in Tehran and surrounded areas, more than 12 hours after Israel launched overnight attack targeting Iranian nuclear sitesFull report: Israel targets Iran’s nuclear facilitiesIsraeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has addressed the nation, saying the IDF had targted Iran’s leading nuclear scientists working on the Iranian bomb.He said that Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz had been targeted.This operation will continue for as many days as it takes We are at a decisive moment in Israel’s history. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Trump warns Iran next attacks will be MORE brutal with chilling ultimatum after Israel's hit on nuclear sites sparks WWIII fears

President Donald Trump is threatening Iran to agree to a nuclear deal or face further attacks that will be 'even more brutal' following Israel 's shock attack on its nuclear and military facilities.

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9 d. ago ‘A declaration of war’: Israel’s strike on Iran – Today in Focus Extra

The Guardian’s senior international correspondent Julian Borger reports from Jerusalem the morning after an unprecedented Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilitiesIsrael has launched an unprecedented strike on Iran. Though in the last couple of years the two rivals in the region have traded a few tit-for-tat attacks, the world woke up on Friday to an extraordinary escalation.As the Guardian’s senior international correspondent Julian Borger reports from Jerusalem, this time Israel has attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities, as well as killing the head of the Revolutionary Guards, the army chief of staff, and six senior nuclear scientists. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Trump says 'I gave Iran chance after chance' and says regime hardliners 'spoke bravely

US president Donald Trump has threateningly told Iran to agree to a nuclear deal or face more 'death and destruction', following Israel's shock attack on its nuclear and military facilities. 

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9 d. ago Why Israel launched mega Iran attack as WW3 fears grow over nuclear plans

Israel has initiated a widescale attack on Tehran - Iran's capital city - targeting nuclear facilities, the residences of military commanders, and ballistic missile factories

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9 d. ago Israel launches strikes on ‘dozens’ of sites in Iran, targeting nuclear programme

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says operation will take ‘many days’ as Tehran threatens swift retaliationMiddle East crisis – live updatesIsrael has launched an attack on Iran aimed at “dozens” of targets including its nuclear facilities, military commanders and scientists, claiming it took unilateral action because Tehran had begun to build nuclear warheads.As Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, threatened “severe punishment” against Israel, the Israeli military said on Friday morning that Iran had launched 100 drones aimed at Israel and that the country’s defences were focused on intercepted them. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago 'Dangerous moment' as Israel launches major attack on Iran's nuclear sites and missile facilities

Within hours Israeli air force intercepts drones over Saudi Arabia as Tehran hits back, says Israel’s Channel 12

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9 d. ago Israel launches major attack on Iran targeting nuclear sites and missile facilities

Sir Keir Starmer urges ‘all parties to step back and reduce tensions urgently’ as Israel strikes Iran

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2 w. ago ‘Something set him off’: Mass stabbing at Oregon homeless shelter leaves 11 people injured

Craig Smith, the executive director of the shelter, said the suspected attacker had just arrived at the facility a day earlier

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2 w. ago ‘Something set him off’: Mass stabbing at Orgon homeless shelter leaves 11 people injured

Craig Smith, the executive director of the shelter, said the suspected attacker had just arrived at the facility a day earlier

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