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Tehran: Iran's Supreme National Security Council confirmed that its secretary Ali Larijani has been killed in an attack, Iran's Tasnim news agency reported early Wednesday. In a statement, the council said Larijani died early Tuesday alongside his son Morteza Larijani, deputy for security affairs at...

Washington: President Donald Trump Tuesday said NATO and most of US' other allies have rejected his calls to help secure the Strait of Hormuz as the war with Iran entered the third week. In a social media post, Trump asserted that Iran's military has been...

Doha: Around 1,600 Indian nationals travelled to India on five Qatar Airways flights Tuesday, even as the airline continues to operate limited services due to restrictions on Qatar's airspace, the Indian Embassy here said. The flights included two services to Delhi and one each to...

Washington: Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Centre, announced his resignation Tuesday, saying he "cannot in good conscience" back the Trump administration's war in Iran. Kent said on social media Iran "posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that...

Jerusalem: The Israeli defence minister said Tuesday that the Israeli military killed top Iranian security official Ali Larijani in an overnight strike. Israel Katz made the announcement. The Israeli military also announced it killed Gholam Reza Soleimani, the head of the Revolutionary Guard's all-volunteer Basij...

Dubai: Israel said Tuesday it had killed the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' all-volunteer Basij force, a key force used to suppress demonstrations in the Islamic Republic. The Israeli military said a strike Monday killed Gholamreza Soleimani. Iran did not immediately acknowledge Soleimani's killing....

Kabul: Afghanistan's Ministry of Interior spokesperson Abdul Matin Qane Tuesday warned that the country will give a 'teeth-breaking response' to the airstrikes carried out by Pakistan in Kabul, local media reported. Afghan officials said that the strike targeted the 2,000-bed Omid Addiction Treatment Hospital in...

New Delhi: India Tuesday condemned the Pakistani airstrikes on a hospital and rehab centre in Kabul, where over 400 civilians were killed and at least 250 were injured and said that Islamabad is "now trying to dress up a massacre as a military operation". Pakistani...

Dubai: Residents of Dubai and Doha, Qatar, awoke to the sound of explosions Tuesday as air defences worked to intercept new waves of incoming Iranian fire, and Israel launched new strikes on Iran and Lebanon, as the war in the Middle East showed no signs...

United Nations: India has exposed Pakistan’s own Islamophobia, manifest in the deadly persecution of Ahmadiyyas, and Islamabad’s representative virtually admitted it was happening. Referring to Pakistan only as “our western neighbour”, India’s Permanent Representative P. Harish asked rhetorically Monday (local time), “One wonders what would...