Category: International

Shannon Bosch, Edith Cowan University Afghanistan says at least 400 people have been killed in a Pakistani airstrike on a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul on Monday night, with potentially hundreds more wounded.

President Donald Trump’s suggestion that countries send their warships alongside US naval forces to keep the Strait of Hormuz “open and safe” has brought no immediate commitments, as oil prices soar due to the US and Israel’s war on Iran.

Natalie Kon-yu, Victoria University; Emily Booth, University of Technology Sydney; Michael Burke, Victoria University, and Tom Clark, Victoria University In 2016 and again in 2024, Donald Trump ran against two supremely qualified presidential candidates, who both lost. Both had decades of service to the government and high-ranking jobs within Democratic administrations. Both were women.

U.S. Marines crossing into Iraq from Kuwait on March 21, 2003. AP Photo/Laurent Rebours Farah N. Jan, University of Pennsylvania The United States military achieved every objective it set when it went to war in Iraq in 2003. Decapitation: Saddam Hussein was captured, tried and hanged. Air dominance: total, within days. Regime collapse: The Iraqi […]

In a harrowing and expansive account published by The Guardian, the humanitarian catastrophe in Lebanon has reached a critical tipping point, with over 500,000 people rendered homeless in a single, devastating instant following sweeping Israeli displacement orders.

US President Donald Trump sat alongside his German counterpart, Friedrich Merz, in the Oval Office on Tuesday and unleashed a broadside against some of his European allies.

• Europe drawn in: A host of European countries pledged military aid after Cyprus and Western allies in the Gulf were attacked. The UK is sending extra jets to Qatar while France is allowing the US to use a base for non-combat purposes. But leaders remain reluctant to get too closely involved in the war.

Iranian bombers came within minutes of striking the largest military base housing US troops in the Middle East before Qatari planes shot them down in their first aerial combat mission, two sources briefed on the operation told CNN.

• On the ground: Israel said it has begun a tenth wave of strikes in Tehran. President Donald Trump said Iran’s air force and navy had been “knocked out,” and the US military said it destroyed 17 Iranian ships and nearly 2,000 targets. More than 1,000 people have been killed in Iran since the war began.

A consulate in Dubai, CIA station in Saudi Arabia and US base in Qatar all sustained hits • Military and leaders targeted: US President Donald Trump said Iran’s air force and navy had been “knocked out,” and that strikes had targeted the country’s leadership.