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The Strait of Hormuz remains open to all shipping except vessels linked to “Iran’s enemies”, Iran’s representative to the U.N. maritime agency said on Sunday, after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to target Iranian power plants if the waterway was not “fully open” within 48 hours. The threat of Iranian attacks during the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has kept most ...

A drone attack targeted Iraqi intelligence services in an upscale residential neighbourhood in central Baghdad on Saturday morning, a senior security official said. “A drone targeted the headquarters of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service in the Mansour district” at around 10:00 am local time (0700 GMT), General Saad Maan, head of the Iraqi government’s security media unit, said in a ...

Thousands of Muslims held Eid-ul-Fitr prayers in Iran on Saturday to mark the end of the Ramadan fast against the backdrop of the Middle East war, state television footage showed. Iran, a majority-Shia nation, marked the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan a day after most other Muslim countries, which are mainly Sunni. At dawn, a crowd of ...

  US President Donald Trump said Friday that he was considering “winding down” military operations against Iran, as the United States temporarily eased sanctions on Iranian oil shipments to stem a global supply crisis. Iran launched a new wave of drone and missile attacks on Saudi Arabia and Israel meanwhile after supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei claimed to have dealt a ...

Muslims across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia performed Eid-ul-Fitr prayer this morning, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, with massive congregations at the Grand Mosque in Makkah and Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah, led by senior officials and scholars. Following a month of fasting and prayer, worshippers gathered in large numbers from the early morning hours at designated ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Israel and the United States were “winning” the war against Iran, with the Islamic republic “decimated” and unable to enrich uranium or manufacture ballistic missiles. In an English-language press conference, Netanyahu insisted Israel had “acted alone” in striking Iran’s massive South Pars gas field, while confirming that US President Donald Trump had ...

Heavy rain and strong winds left at least 18 people dead in Pakistan’s financial capital Karachi, city authorities and rescue services said on Thursday. Thirteen people died when a wall collapsed on Wednesday, while five people, including two women, were killed elsewhere in the city. “According to initial reports, the deceased were drug addicts who had taken shelter in the ...

The General Authority of Islamic Affairs, Endowments and Zakat in the UAE has announced that Eid-ul-Fitr prayers will be held inside mosques across the country, with outdoor prayer grounds not to be used this year. In a statement, the authority said the decision applies nationwide, confirming that prayers will not take place in traditional open-air Eid prayer areas. Officials said ...

Iranian army chief Amir Hatami threatened on Wednesday to launch a “decisive and regrettable” retaliation for the killing of security chief Ali Larijani in an Israeli air strike. “Iran’s response to the assassination of the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council will be decisive and regrettable,” Hatami said in a statement. The Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s powerful military force that ...

Iran’s new supreme leader survived US and Israeli air strikes because he stepped outside for a walk in his garden minutes before his home was hit by missiles. Leaked audio obtained by The Telegraph reveals that Mojtaba Khamenei was targeted in the same attack that killed his father and other members of the Islamic Republic’s leadership. But he had gone ...