Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on the first day of the war that the United States and Israel launched on Iran, has been selected as Iran’s new supreme leader, state media reports.

Nato began its biennial drills in the Arctic yesterday, this time placing more emphasis on the role of civilians in supporting the military, at a time of high tension over US President Trump’s push to take over Greenland from fellow Nato member Denmark.

The United States said yesterday it will label the Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan as a terrorist organization and accused the Islamist group of receiving support from Iran.

Croatia’s first conscripts in nearly two decades arrived at barracks yesterday after the Balkan nation reintroduced mandatory military service.

About 10 vessels in or near the Strait of Hormuz have come under attack since Iran blocked the strategic waterway in retaliation for US-Israeli strikes, data analysis groups report.

Qatari authorities have arrested more than 300 people for sharing images and what they described as “misleading information” during days of attacks by Iran, the interior ministry said yesterday.

Taiwan has not detected a single Chinese military aircraft around the island for nine of the past 10 days, leaving experts puzzling over the reasons for the dramatic reduction in sorties.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday accused Israel of “unlawfully” using white phosphorus over residential parts of a southern Lebanese town last week.

Kurdish residents of northeast Syria warned Iran’s Kurds against aligning with the US to fight the Iranian government, citing their own experience in Syria in recent months as evidence their Iranian counterparts would be “abandoned.”

Iran’s clerical leadership chose confrontation over compromise in appointing Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father, Ali Khamenei, a move regional officials say is a direct rebuke to US President Donald Trump, who had declared the son “unacceptable”.

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Israel's military has threatened to target any successor to former supreme leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed over a week ago in a first wave of US and Israeli strikes on Iran.

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Trump had previously demanded a say in the appointment and dismissed the younger Khamenei as an unacceptable "lightweight".

The attacks almost completely halted traffic through the strait, a crucial route for oil and other goods

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"ONLY FOOLS WOULD THINK DIFFERENTLY!" he argued