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Washington: US President Donald Trump says Iran operations are likely to last 4 to 5 weeks but that he's prepared "to go far longer than that." Trump spoke Monday at a White House ceremony. The war in the Middle East spiralled further Monday as Israel...

Washington: Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth Monday spoke to widening concerns that the US-Israeli strikes in Iran could spiral into a protracted regional conflict by declaring, "This is not Iraq. This is not endless." Hegseth, along with Air Force Gen Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint...

Dubai: Iran's ambassador to the U.N. nuclear agency alleged Monday that US-Israeli airstrikes have targeted Iran's Natanz nuclear enrichment site. Israel and the US have not acknowledged strikes at the site, which America bombed back in the 12-day war between Iran and Israel in June....

Kabul: Afghanistan's Ministry of Defence announced Monday that its Air Force had conducted what it described as precise and coordinated aerial operations against multiple Pakistani military installations, signalling a sharp escalation in the already worsening security situation between the two neighbouring countries. In a statement...

Dubai: The US and Israel pounded targets across Iran Sunday, dropping massive bombs on the country's ballistic missile sites and wiping out warships as part of an intensifying military campaign following the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Blasts rattled windows across the country...

Dubai: US President Donald Trump says 9 ships in the Iranian navy have been sunk. Trump said on social media Sunday that the ships had been "destroyed" and sunk, "some of them relatively large and important." Trump said the rest of Iran's fleet of military...

Dubai: Iran vowed revenge Sunday after the killing of its supreme leader and traded strikes with Israel as part of a widening war prompted by a surprise US and Israeli bombardment a day earlier. Blasts in Tehran sent a huge plume of smoke into the...

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...

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...

New Delhi: As a joint military strike by the US and Israel on Iran triggered fears of a wider conflict in the Middle East, India Saturday urged all parties to exercise maximum restraint and avoid escalation, emphasising that the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all...