A state funeral is taking place in Iran for around 60 people, including military commanders and nuclear scientists, killed during the 12-day conflict with Israel. Coffins draped in the Iranian flag, bearing portraits of deceased commanders were flanked by large crowds near Enghelab Square in central Tehran. The conflict ended with a ceasefire earlier this...
Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. At the NATO summit in the Hague, almost all European nations reached an agreement to raise military spending to 5% of each county’s GDP. This comes as President Trump said the U.S. would not...
USAF The Al Udeid Air Base, pictured in 2004 Iran has launched missiles at a US military base in Qatar, in what it said was retaliation for American strikes against its nuclear sites over the weekend. Witnesses have reported hearing loud bangs in the sky above Qatar, while video shows bright flashes in the sky...
Donald Trump has said Iran “must now make peace” or face future attacks, after the US struck struck three Iranian nuclear facilities. The US president said the strikes were a “spectacular military success” in a televised address to nation on Saturday. Earlier, Iran’s foreign minister had warned that US involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict would...
Israel says it has killed a senior Iranian commander who helped plan Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack on southern Israel, in a strike on Saturday on the city of Qom. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the killing of Saeed Izadi marked a key point in the conflict. He was “one of the orchestrators” of...
Niger’s military junta says it will nationalise the majority French-owned local uranium company in the latest escalation in a row between the two countries. Somaïr is operated by French nuclear fuels company Orano, which Niger accuses of several “irresponsible acts”. Since seizing power in 2023, Niger’s military leaders have said they want to keep more...
Israeli forces have killed 23 Palestinians after opening fire on crowds who had gathered near an aid distribution site, witnesses and medics say. Tanks and drones fired at thousands of people near an aid distribution centre in central Gaza run by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the witnesses and medics said. A...
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has signed into law an amendment that will allow, once again, civilians to be tried in a military court under certain circumstances. A previous law permitting such trials was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in January. Before that ruling, civilians could be taken to a military tribunal if they had...
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. More than 5 million people joined No Kings Day protests Saturday in the largest day of action against President Trump since his return to office. Protests were held in over 2,100 cities and towns across the country. The...
Jonathan Beale Defence correspondent Getty Images A woman looks out of her bomb-damaged flat in Tehran Israel’s conflict with Iran may look like a mismatch on paper – a nation of nine million people taking on a giant of the Middle East, home to 88 million. But Israel’s formidable and sophisticated military forces – with...
Bernd Debusmann, John Sudworth and Kayla Epstein Reporting from Washington, Los Angeles and New York Getty Images A protest outside the Michigan Capitol in Lansing, Michigan Protests against President Donald Trump have taken place in towns and cities across the US, organised by a group called “No Kings”. The demonstrations were held to counter a...
The war between Israel and Iran marks the culmination of decades of shadow-boxing between Tehran and Tel Aviv. This is a war that has long worn the mask of deniability, played out in assassinations, cyber operations, and various forms of entanglements from Damascus to the Red Sea. Its rules were unwritten but widely understood: escalation...
Watch: Footage shows explosions and damaged buildings ablaze in Iran’s capital Tehran Israel launched strikes across Iran on Friday, saying they targeted the “heart” of Iran’s nuclear programme. With counter-attacks expected “in the immediate future”, a state of emergency was declared in Israel. Hossein Salami, chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards – a powerful branch...
The US has said it is not involved in Israel’s bombardment of Iranian nuclear sites, an escalation that is threatening to send the region deeper into conflict. Secretary of State Marco Rubio released a statement soon after the strikes began, saying Israel had taken “unilateral action” and warning Iran to not retaliate against the US....
In a video statement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel has launched Operation Rising Lion, a targeted military operation to roll back the Iranian threat to “Israel’s very survival”. He said that Israel had targeted Iranian scientists “working on the Iranian bomb” and that the strikes “would continue for as many days as it...