Traffic congestion has made leaving Tehran difficult as large numbers of people attempt to flee/ Many Iranians have reacted with fear and dismay at Donald Trump's instruction to "immediately evacuate Tehran". The capital's almost 10 million residents have now been left to decide whether to ...
President Trump's comments on the Israel-Iran conflict have veered from full throated support for Israel's strikes to strongly distancing himself from them, and back again. His ambiguity has added to the sense of uncertainty as the fighting itself escalates - as has his departure from the G7 in ...
Footage shows explosions and damaged buildings ablaze in Iran's capital Tehran/ Israel and Iran exchanged strikes overnight into Monday, as fighting between the two countries entered its fourth day. The conflict began on Friday when Israel attacked nuclear and military sites in Iran. Iran ...
"Stuck". That is the word most people who have spoken to the BBC use to describe life in Iran right now. After three days of Israeli attacks, "everyone is trying to escape" Tehran "one way or another," one resident told BBC News Persian. On Sunday, long queues formed at petrol stations across ...
The man accused of being responsible for holding the missing American journalist Austin Tice has claimed that ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ordered his execution, security sources have told the BBC. Major General Bassam Al Hassan is a former commander in the Republican Guards who was ...
Two people were killed when a missile hit Rishon LeZion early on Saturday/ As sirens rang out across Israel in the early hours of Saturday morning, Ifat Benhaim and her family ran into their basement. "We closed the door, and suddenly there was such a big boom," she says. "I thought all the ...
Shifa hospital in Gaza City said 12 people were killed by Israeli fire as they waited for a convoy of aid lorries on the coastal road/ At least 15 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire as they gathered near an aid distribution centre in central Gaza, hospitals say. Officials at al-Aqsa ...
Friday night saw Israel and Iran exchange a barrage of air strikes/ For now the fighting between Israel and Iran seems restricted to the two nations. At the United Nations and elsewhere there have been widespread calls for restraint. But what if they fall on deaf ears? What if the fighting ...
Some Israeli attacks hit populated areas in Tehran and other places/ Beyond Israel's stated goal of destroying what it calls an existential threat from Iran's nuclear capabilities with its attacks on Friday, Benjamin Netanyahu has a wider aim - regime change in Tehran. Under this scenario, he ...
Iranian state media says 78 people were killed in the capital alone and more than 300 injured/ The Iranian regime remains deeply unpopular, and many citizens have shown little sympathy for the assassination of senior military commanders, figures widely seen as responsible for brutal crackdowns ...
