Saleh Mohammadi, a member of Iran’s national wrestling team, was found guilty of killing police officers alongside two other men, state media say. BBC News
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Three Palestinian women killed as missile debris hits West Bank beauty salon
Several other people were injured when shrapnel struck the beauty salon in Beit Awwa, in the southern West Bank. BBC News
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Qatar reports “extensive damage” at an energy industry site as Iran retaliates for gas field attack. BBC News
Read More »Israel strikes and destroys building in heart of Beirut
There are no known casualties so far from the strike near downtown, as Israel said it targeted a building affiliated with Hezbollah. BBC News
Read More »Iran's intelligence minister Esmail Khatib killed in air strike
Israel said it had killed Khatib, whose death was confirmed by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday. BBC News
Read More »How might the UK support shipping in the Strait of Hormuz?
Keir Starmer has confirmed the UK is working with its allies on a “viable plan” to restore freedom of navigation to the Strait of Hormuz. It comes after Donald Trump asked countries, including Britain, to send ships to to the area to keep the Strait “open and safe”. Ben Chu …
Read More »Israel says 'limited' ground operations under way in Lebanon
Troops are targeting “Hezbollah strongholds” in south Lebanon, where strikes reportedly killed nine people on Monday. BBC News
Read More »'My mother cried out one last time': Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car
Khaled Bani Odeh’s parents and two brothers were shot dead as they drove home from a shopping trip in the occupied West Bank. BBC News
Read More »Iran hits key UAE oil port and Dubai airport
The port of Fujairah plays a crucial role in helping keep global supplies moving when the Strait of Hormuz is blocked. BBC News
Read More »BBC visits scene of deadly strike in Lebanon
As Israel continues to attack Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, correspondent Wyre Davies visits a home where eight people were killed. BBC News
Read More »How Iranians are evading internet blocks to contact family abroad
Negar, who lives in Toronto, Canada, says her family have been managing to make short calls to reassure her they are okay, knowing how anxious she was during the deadly anti-government protests in Iran in January. These have done little to allay her worries. BBC News
Read More »Israeli forces kill Palestinian couple and two of their children in occupied West Bank
Mohammed, aged five, and Othman, aged seven, were killed alongside their parents, the Palestinian health ministry says. BBC News
Read More »Gazans urged to shelter as sandstorm turns skies orange
Gazans were urged to take shelter as a sandstorm swept across the enclave on Saturday. Most of the more than two million Palestinians living in the enclave are displaced, living in tents or buildings heavily damaged by the war with Israel. First responders operating under the Hamas-run Interior Ministry warned …
Read More »Hamas urges key ally Iran to halt attacks on Gulf states
The Palestinian armed group also affirms Tehran’s right to defend itself from “aggression” by the US and Israel. BBC News
Read More »Iranians react to new supreme leader's first address
People in Iran are questioning who’s really in charge after Mojtaba Khamenei’s first address came via a presenter on state TV. BBC News
Read More »As Iran regime change hopes fade, Netanyahu faces political test
“This is the culmination of what [Netanyahu] has tried to rebrand as the War of Redemption, which in his mind started on October 7, 2023. And this is – if not the last war – then the big war against Iran,” said Neri Zilber, a journalist based in Tel Aviv …
Read More »Why real-time tracking of the war in Iran just got harder
BBC Verify examines the impact of new image restrictions from major satellite provider Planet Labs. BBC News
Read More »BBC spends day with emergency teams as Israel strikes Lebanon
Among those racing across the city was Hussein Fakih, the regional head of the government-run Lebanese Civil Defence – the country’s primary firefighting, first aid and rescue force. He said he had been seeing the same things “almost every day” since war resumed on 2 March between Israel and the …
Read More »US refuelling plane crashes in Iraq, military says
The US Central Command says rescue efforts are under way after a refuelling aircraft went down over western Iraq. BBC News
Read More »Tracking the wave of ship attacks that has choked off Strait of Hormuz
Six ships have been reportedly attacked in the Gulf in less than 48 hours, bringing the total vessels attacked during the war to 18. BBC News
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