Israel said the war against Iran was entering its "decisive phase" on Saturday, as explosions rocked cities across the Middle East, with strikes on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and a major Emirati energy facility.
Russian drone and missile strikes near Ukraine's capital killed four people and wounded 10, police said on Saturday.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Friday he believes Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei is wounded.
Iran's national security chief Ali Larijani on March13 openly attended a mass rally in Tehran alongside other top officials, dismissing the latest Israeli-U.S. attacks on the capital as being "out of desperation.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Paris on Friday, his spokesman said, for talks with President Emmanuel Macron on ramping up pressure on Russia.
Afghan authorities said on Friday that Pakistan attacks on Kabul and border provinces killed four people in the capital and two in the east, the latest deadly clashes in the long-running conflict.
Oil prices held around $100 Friday and most equity markets dropped after Iran's leader called for the blocking of the crucial Strait of Hormuz and opening up of new fronts in the war against the United States and Israel.
Fresh strikes rocked Iran and several Gulf countries Friday, as Israel and the Islamic republic unleashed a new wave of attacks in a war that has ignited the Middle East and threatens to torpedo the world economy.
Iran’s secretive new supreme leader on March 12 vowed to keep up attacks on Gulf Arab countries and use the effective closure of the strategic Strait of Hormuz as leverage against the United States and Israel.
The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) on March 12 said it has struck about 6,000 targets inside Iran, including dozens of naval vessels, as part of the ongoing operation, which began last month.
Former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene said March 12 that the Trump administration and the Republican Party are “going in the wrong direction” on key issues, including the war with Iran, highlighting growing tensions within the MAGA movement about U.S. involvement.
Russia on Thursday sentenced 15 men, including four gunmen, to life in prison over the Crocus concert hall attack which left 150 people dead, the deadliest onslaught in Russia in more than two decades.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky will hold talks on ways to increase pressure on Russia in Paris today with President Emmanuel Macron, the French presidency said on March 12.
Taliban government said on Thursday that four members of the same family, including two children, were killed by Pakistani artillery and mortar fire in eastern Afghanistan.
Chile's new President Jose Antonio Kast, the country's most right-wing leader in three decades, has vowed in his inaugural address to follow through on sweeping reforms to confront what he describes as national "emergencies."
China approved what it called an "ethnic unity" law on Thursday, which rights advocates warn could further marginalise minority groups such as the Uyghurs.
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