Iran Guards strike tanker in Hormuz
Agencies
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2 Bangladeshis killed in Riyadh airport strike
Star Report
12 October 2026 • Middle East
Riyadh airport hit by fresh Houthi strike
Agencies
12 October 2026 • Middle East
Iran executes man for killing police officer
AFP, Tehran
12 October 2026 • Middle East
Fresh attack at Riyadh airport, says Saudi coalition
Agencies
11 October 2026 • Middle East
Flights cancelled as blast rocks Riyadh airport
Reuters, Riyadh
11 October 2026 • Middle East
Israeli strikes kill 5 more in Gaza
Reuters, Cairo
11 October 2026 • Middle East

Iran upbeat as Trump sacks Bolton

President Hassan Rouhani yesterday said that the United States’ “warmongering” was a failure, as Iran welcomed the sacking of hawkish US national security adviser John Bolton.
11 September 2019

31 die during stampede at Ashura rituals in Iraq's Kerbala

At least 31 people die and another 100 are wounded during the Shi'ite Muslim religious rituals of Ashura in Iraq's southern holy city of Kerbala, in what an official at its Imam Hussein shrine describes as a stampede.
10 September 2019

Lebanon’s Hezbollah says it downs Israeli drone

The Iran-backed Hezbollah movement said yesterday it had downed and seized an Israeli drone as it flew across the Lebanese border, a week after a flash confrontation between the arch-foes.
9 September 2019

Iran slams EU powers as nuclear deal unravels

Iran’s atomic agency chief yesterday hit out at European powers, saying their broken promises gave the Islamic republic little choice
8 September 2019

Muslim rebels start handing over guns

Muslim rebels in the mainly Catholic Philippines began handing over their guns to independent foreign monitors yesterday, as part of a
7 September 2019

Time running out to save nuke deal

Iran yesterday said it was now capable of raising uranium enrichment past the 20% level and had launched advanced centrifuge
7 September 2019

Taliban blast kills 12 in Kabul

A Taliban suicide blast in the centre of Kabul killed at least 10 people and wounded more than 40 yesterday, destroying cars and shops in an area near the headquarters of Afghanistan’s Nato force and the US embassy, officials said.
5 September 2019

Iran lifts all restrictions

Iran said it would take another step away from a 2015 nuclear deal by starting to develop centrifuges to speed up its uranium enrichment but it also gave European powers two more months to try to save the multilateral pact.
5 September 2019

Iran’s Rouhani rules out direct US talks

President Hassan Rouhani yesterday ruled out holding any bilateral talks with the United States and threatened to further cut Iran’s
3 September 2019

US envoy meets with Afghan president

The US envoy leading efforts to forge a deal with the Taliban has met with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in Kabul, officials said
2 September 2019

Israeli troops, Hezbollah fighters exchange fire

Israel’s military said yesterday anti-tank missiles from Lebanon targeted an army base and vehicles and that it responded with fire into
1 September 2019

100 believed killed in Saudi-led air strike: ICRC

More than 100 people are believed to have been killed when the Saudi-led coalition fighting Huthi rebels launched an air strike on a
1 September 2019

Missile attack kills 40 jihadist leaders: report

At least 40 jihadist leaders were killed yesterday in Syria after a missile attack targeted their meeting in the northwestern province of
31 August 2019

Taliban attack Kunduz city amid peace talks

Afghan security forces “repelled” a coordinated Taliban assault on the northern city of Kunduz yesterday, President Ashraf Ghani said,
31 August 2019

Regime, Russia step up assault on rebel-held Idlib

Syria and its ally Russia have stepped up an offensive against the last big stronghold of Syrian rebels, mounting more air raids and deploying ground reinforcements including Iranian-backed militias, army defectors and residents said yesterday.
30 August 2019

Northwest Syria clashes kill 51 fighters: report

Clashes between anti-government fighters and regime forces killed 51 combattants on both sides in northwestern Syria yesterday, a war
27 August 2019

Lift sanctions for talks

Iran will not talk to the United States until all sanctions imposed on Tehran are lifted, President Hassan Rouhani said yesterday, a day after President Donald Trump said he would meet his Iranian counterpart to try to end a nuclear standoff.
27 August 2019

Israel strikes Palestinian military base in Lebanon

Israeli drone strikes hit a military position belonging to an Iranian-backed Palestinian faction in Lebanon’s Bekaa valley near the Syrian
26 August 2019

Iran has no immunity anywhere: Israeli PM

Israel yesterday said an air strike against an arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in Syria that it accused of planning “killer drone
25 August 2019

Lebanon PM says bid aims at stirring ME tensions

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said two Israeli drones which crashed in a suburb of Beirut dominated by the Iranian-backed
25 August 2019