Iraq
Iranian naval commander killed in airstrike, Israel claims
Israel’s defence minister said Commodore Alireza Tangsiri was responsible for bombing operations that have blocked ships from crossing the Strait of Hormuz.
- Mario Parker and Arsalan Shahla
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Israel thought it could spur rebellion inside Iran. That hasn’t happened
Donald Trump’s hopes that an Israeli plan to ignite an internal uprising against Iran’s theocratic government could bring the war to a swift end have so far been dashed.
- Mark Mazzetti, Julian E. Barnes, Edward Wong and Ronen Bergman
- Explainer
- Middle East at war
‘We will hunt you down’: Is Pete Hegseth for real?
It’s been a busy year for Donald Trump’s unconventional pick for secretary of war. Now, with the war in Iran, he’s firmly in the spotlight. Where did he come from? How is he performing so far?
- Angus Holland and Madeleine Heffernan
- Explainer
- Middle East tensions
‘The Great Satan’: How the era of the ayatollahs began
Iran has a new Supreme Leader, only its third in nearly half a century. Here’s how the clerics came to power – and held on to it.
- Angus Holland
- Opinion
- Middle East at war
I covered the Middle East when Saddam was America’s friend. The bloodletting hasn’t stopped
Iranians deserve better than the ayatollahs – and they deserve better than an illegal war waged by a felonious, feckless president with no plan for what follows.
- Geraldine Brooks
- Exclusive
- Middle East at war
Australia’s nuclear emergency centre ‘on alert’ after Iran attack
The Melbourne-based nuclear incident room monitors global radiation threats and can model how radioactive material could spread.
- Annika Smethurst
- Analysis
- Middle East at war
No, he’s not Winston Churchill. But Starmer’s learnt something from history Trump hasn’t
Publicly rebuked by the president and deeply unpopular at home, Keir Starmer is sticking to his guns over Iran and wants to avoid “the mistakes of Iraq”.
- David Crowe
US warns ‘the big one is coming’ amid conflicting signals over war’s duration
US President Donald Trump declared the war might go “far longer” than his previous estimate of “four to five weeks” and did not rule out sending ground forces into Iran.
- David Crowe
- Analysis
- Middle East at war
There’s a wild violence to Iran’s retaliation and it has the firepower to do even worse
The United States and Israel have pounded Iranian targets in a bid to destroy weapons stores and missile launchers. But Iran’s resolve to fight back appears strong.
- David Crowe
- Updated
- Middle East at war
Iran conflict to continue for ‘weeks’ as scope of attacks widens
Donald Trump aired his plan to sustain the bombing campaign in the hope that Iranians would overthrow the regime, declaring its leaders faced “certain death” if they did not sue for peace.
- David Crowe