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Tehran: Hours after long-time Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in a US-Israeli airstrike, Iran Sunday named Ayatollah Alireza Arafi as his interim successor. Ayatollah Khamenei, whose death in an attack on his residential compound in Tehran was announced by Iran, had been the Supreme...

Minneapolis: Barely an hour after the first US and Israeli missiles struck Iran, President Donald Trump made clear he hoped for regime change. "Now is the time to seize control of your destiny," he told the Iranian people in a video. "This is the moment...

Tel Aviv: The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) Sunday said Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed inside his leadership compound in central Tehran, asserting that the operation marked the end of what it described as a decades-long chapter of terror directed against Israel. Khamenei...

Dubai: A massive explosion struck Iran's capital Sunday as the Israeli military said it was targeting the "heart" of the city. The blast sent a huge plume of smoke into the sky and shook the ground. It wasn't immediately clear what the target was. The...

Karachi: At least 10 persons were killed and several injured Sunday after clashes broke out between police and protesters as they tried to storm the gates of the US Consulate in Pakistan's port city of Karachi. The clashes broke out following the killing of Iran's...

Dubai: Iran fired missiles at targets in Israel and Gulf Arab states Sunday after vowing massive retaliation for the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by the United States and Israel, prompting US President Donald Trump to threaten Tehran against further escalation. Iran acknowledged...

Tehran: Iran's security chief, Ali Larijani, stated Sunday that the transition process following the assassination of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will commence later in the day, according to reports from state media. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, along with Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i and a...

New Delhi: The Iranian embassy in India Sunday urged governments around the world to strongly condemn the US-Israel attack on Iran and the killing of its Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In a statement, the mission expressed its "profound sorrow and grief" over Khamenei's death....

Tehran: The death toll from a joint US-Israeli strike on a girls' elementary school in Iran's southern province of Hormozgan rose to 148, local media reported Sunday. The attack also left 95 people wounded, local prosecutor Ebrahim Taheri was quoted as saying by semi-official Tasnim...

Islamabad: A Pakistani minister Sunday announced that the operation against Afghan Taliban was continuing, refuting social media reports about the conclusion of the blitz. Pakistan launched its operation on Thursday night in response to the Taliban operatives attacking 53 locations along the more than 2,600km...