Iran has said Israeli involvement in Friday’s attack is still to be established and dismissed the drones used as like children’s toys. Foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian claimed they took off from within Iran and only flew a few hundred metres before being shot down. Israel hasn’t commented but is widely believed to be behind the
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The overnight events do not reflect well on President Biden. He had signalled so emphatically just days ago for Israel not to retaliate. “Take the win,” the American president told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the early hours of Sunday morning. Middle East latest – follow live Image: Benjamin Netanyahu has ignored Biden’s pleas.
Iran has grounded commercial flights across parts of the country after reports of explosions. State media also said Iran fired its air defence systems after reports of blasts near the city of Isfahan. It remained unclear if the country was under attack. But tensions remain high in the wider Middle East after Iran’s missile and
The deaths of 48 people in the worst fire in the history of Ireland have been ruled by a jury as unlawful killing. A jury at Dublin District Coroner’s Court delivered majority verdicts on the victims of the 1981 Stardust nightclub fire in the city on Thursday. The venue in Artane, north Dublin, was packed
Lebanon is balanced as though on an earthquake faultline right now – whatever Israel decides to do next will have massive repercussions throughout the entire region. That’s how critical the situation is in Lebanon and the surrounding countries, as described by one seasoned Lebanese political analyst. Khodor Taleb is also the former adviser to three
If you want to understand why people are still risking everything to cross the Channel, let me take you to a quiet street near Dunkirk, where chaos is in the air. A group of around 40 or 50 people – migrants who have just failed in their latest attempt to cross the Channel – are
Iran’s president has vowed Israel would face a “massive and harsh response” if it attacks, as US officials believe it is planning to do. Iran launched more than 330 missiles and drones towards Israel on Saturday in response to Israel’s alleged bombing of its Syrian consulate. On Wednesday, Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron said he
When the first pictures of downed Iranian rockets emerged on Sunday morning, they didn’t look real. Even seasoned military spokesman Peter Lerner was fooled. “I thought it was fake news,” he told Sky News. The huge black tubes littering the Dead Sea and other parts of Israel seemed too colossal to be genuine. We had
In a world that has grown more dangerous in recent years, the nightmare scenario of a Third World War is in the public consciousness. Earlier this year, UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps warned the world could be engulfed by wars involving China, Russia, North Korea and Iran in the next five years, and said we
Take the win, or strike back? The question exercising Israeli minds in the wake of Iran‘s missile onslaught and the focus of intense debate in Jerusalem. The outcome will decide the immediate fate of this region. A return to shadow war, or all-out escalation into something much more serious. Joe Biden and other allies say
Several people have been stabbed during a service at a church in Sydney. A video online appears to show Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel being attacked during the service at the Christ the Good Shepherd church. It’s not clear what he was attacked with. Members of the congregation can be heard screaming and rushing to help
Iran’s ambassador to the UN has told Sky News that Israel’s promise of a significant response to Saturday’s attack is “a threat, not an action”. Amir Saeid Iravani was speaking exclusively to Sky’s James Matthews after an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council in New York on Sunday. The day before, his country launched
Iran’s attack on Israel was a “declaration of war”, the country’s president has told Sky News – as he insisted “we are seeking peace”. In an interview with Sky’s Middle East correspondent Alistair Bunkall, Isaac Herzog said world leaders need to “make it clear” to the Iranian regime that its behaviour is “unacceptable”. He described
Israel is preparing to defend its airspace after Iran said it had launched dozens of missiles and drones towards its enemy. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRG) said it was responding to an “attack on the consular section of the Iranian embassy in Damascus” on 1 April. Two generals and seven members of the IRG were
A major police operation is under way after reports of multiple stabbings in a shopping centre near Bondi Beach in Sydney. Hundreds of people have been evacuated from the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre. Reuters reported a man had been shot. One witness said they saw a woman lying on the ground before sheltering in
Israel remains braced for an attack from Iran as the US moves “additional assets” to the Middle East. Joe Biden said he expects an attack “sooner, rather than later” and simply told Tehran “don’t”, with warnings growing of retaliation for the killing last week of a senior officer in Iran’s embassy in Syria. The White
Harry Kane’s three eldest children were taken to hospital as a precaution following a three-car crash in Germany. The collision happened on Monday at around 5.15pm local time near Munich, just as the 30-year-old landed with Bayern Munich for their Champions League quarter-final match against Arsenal. Munich Police said a Renault with four people had
Ron Goldman’s father, Caitlyn Jenner, Alan Dershowitz and others have spoken out after former NFL footballer OJ Simpson died. Orenthal James Simpson’s family said he died at 76 when he “succumbed to his battle with cancer” on Wednesday. Nicknamed “The Juice”, Simpson was tried for murder in October 1995, in what was dubbed the “trial
The risks of the Gaza war expanding into a much bigger regional conflict had seemed to have subsided. Not any longer. Comments from Iranian and American leaders in the last 24 hours may be entirely predictable but they raise the prospects of escalation. Iran knows it’s been directly attacked in the airstrike on its embassy
An Israeli airstrike has killed three sons of Hamas’s top political leader in an attack on high-profile targets in Gaza. Hamas said four of Ismail Haniyeh’s grandchildren were also killed in the strike. The Israeli military said two of his sons, Mohammed and Hazem, were Hamas military operatives, while the third, Amir, was a cell