A new wave of US strikes hit multiple sites in Iran overnight, the American military said, sharpening a crisis that had already been edging back toward open war just hours after President Donald Trump warned of further attacks if no ⁠peace dealis secured. "The strikes are in response to Iran's unwarranted and continued aggression," the military's Central Command said in a post on X, adding the strikes began after midnight in Tehran. Iran's top joint military command answered with a warning of its own, saying it would fire on…

A fresh wave of Russian missiles and drones tore into Ukraine's Kharkiv region, killing four people and injuring more than 20, officials said, as authorities in Russia-annexed Crimea reported they were fending off drone attacks. The bombardment comes after weeks of heavy cross-border strikes by both Russia and Ukraine. Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appealed for an end to the war and suggested direct talks between Ukraine and Russia, with the United States and Europe actively involved. The newest attacks…

Iran and the United States lurched back toward open confrontation after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they had struck a US base in Jordan and 21 other targets across the Gulf, retaliating for American attacks around the Strait of Hormuz, according to Iranian media. The fighting amounts to one of the most serious bursts of hostilities since the two sides agreed to a ceasefire in April. The Iranian attacks, which also hit Kuwait and Bahrain, followed US strikes that the military said on X targeted Iranian air defence…

Washington has declared its response complete after a US Apache helicopter was shot down near the Strait of Hormuz, a dramatic escalation that again throws any prospect of a US-Iran peace deal into doubt. US Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees American forces in the Middle East, said on X that it had "completed self-defence strikes against Iran". "CENTCOM forces struck Iranian air defence, ground control stations, and surveillance radar sites near the Strait of Hormuz with precision munitions from US Air Force and Navy…

President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russian forces of carrying out what he called an “extremely vile” strike on a spent nuclear fuel storage facility near Ukraine’s Chornobyl power plant, an attack that damaged the site but did not trigger a rise in radiation levels. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, which said it was briefed by Ukrainian officials, the strike caused serious damage to a fuel-reception building just metres from an area where “large amounts of nuclear material” are kept. Ukraine’s state…

Tensions in the Gulf sharpened again as the United States military said it struck radar installations along Iran's southern coastline, the latest confrontation to cast fresh doubt on a fragile ceasefire in the Middle East war. In a statement, US Central Command said its forces first brought down four Iranian one-way attack drones heading toward the Strait of Hormuz, then moved against Iranian coastal surveillance radar sites in the city of Goruk and on Qeshm Island. "The attack drones posed an immediate threat to regional…

A fresh round of strikes in Crimea left four people dead, Kremlin-installed officials said, underscoring how the war’s reach continues to widen a day after Moscow and Kyiv exchanged attacks on each other’s cities. Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-appointed head of Crimea, said Ukrainian forces struck a non-residential area of Simferopol, the peninsula’s main administrative centre, killing three people and wounding seven. He later said on Telegram that a separate Ukrainian drone attack hit a commuter train in eastern Crimea,…

Fresh hopes for calm on the Israel-Lebanon border were jolted within hours, as Lebanese state media reported Israeli strikes in the south despite a newly announced conditional ceasefire reached after talks in Washington. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency (NNA) said drone strikes hit roads in several locations in the south, adding that at least one of the attacks caused casualties. Earlier today, the Israeli military said air raid sirens had sounded in northern Israel. It said one alert involved a "suspicious aerial…

Ukrainian drones hit an oil terminal and a naval base in St Petersburg just hours before President Vladimir Putin was due to open his flagship economic forum, in a strike aimed at puncturing the Kremlin’s image and underscoring the exposure of Russia’s major cities. The assault on St Petersburg, Mr Putin’s home city and host of his own glitzy version of ‘Davos’ — an annual showcase meant to lure foreign investors — came as both sides intensified attacks in a war now more than four years old, with no clear end in sight.…

A drone strike reported by Russia at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has revived fears around the safety of Europe’s largest nuclear facility, even as officials said critical equipment was not damaged. Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear energy company, said a Ukrainian drone hit the turbine hall of Power Unit No. 6 and exploded, leaving a hole in the wall but sparing the plant’s main systems. "This afternoon, a Ukrainian kamikaze combat drone struck the turbine hall building of Power Unit No. 6,…