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Sir Keir Starmer engaged in urgent discussions with Donald Trump on Sunday evening following the US president’s overnight stealth bomber attack on Iran.

The lives of up to 50,000 American troops stationed in the Middle East are at risk after Donald Trump ’opened Pandora’s box’ by striking Iran.

Iran’s foreign minister will travel to Moscow for a meeting with Vladimir Putin after three key nuclear sites were ‘completely and totally obliterated’ in a morning attack by US bombers.

Sir Keir Starmer will chair a meeting of the emergency Cobra committee on Wednesday to discuss the escalating security situation in the Middle East.

President Donald Trump has admitted that the US ‘may have to fight’ in order to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Families of staff at the British embassy in Tel Aviv and the consulate in Jerusalem have been “temporarily withdrawn as a precautionary measure”, the Foreign Office has said.

Iran tried to assassinate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a missile strike. U.S. President Donald Trump is also reportedly a target of Tehran.

Donald Trump has cautioned Iran that it "must make a deal, before there is nothing left" after overnight airstrikes by Israel that pose a threat of all-out war in the Middle East.

Donald Trump has arrived at a US airbase in the UK for refueling as Air Force One travels to the Middle East, where the president has scheduled talks amid tensions in Gaza and Iran.

Iran envisioned a U.S.-style Marshall Plan to reconstruct Syria following the civil war. It invested billions to establish influence there.

Iraqi forces are intensifying their efforts to combat Captagon smuggling along the Syrian-Iraqi border, following a recent seizure that comes after last week’s interception of an attempt to smuggle 30,000 Captagon tablets in the same area, Al-Baghuz.

A deal to take over the Duke of York’s former start-up business network now seems to be in doubt, sources close to the negotiations have told the BBC.

Hundreds of thousands of people packed into a stadium in Beirut and nearby streets on Sunday for the funeral of Hezbollah’s former leader, Hassan Nasrallah, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike.

Riyadh is emerging as a new center of political influence. On Feb. 18, the Saudi capital hosted the first meeting between Russian and U.S. delegations regarding the war in Ukraine.

Appointment of former leader of group that led operation to topple Assad comes amid other political changes.

Prediction by ex M16 counter-terror director comes as security paused around two main detention facilities.

Authorities have arrested dozens of people accused of taking advantage of the chaos in Syria to settle old scores.

Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo’s five-year jail term increased after prosecutor’s objection, according to reports.

Two senior Iranian judges have been shot dead in an apparent assassination in the country’s supreme court.

Family of now 19-year-old conscript Liri Albag appeals to PM to ‘take decisions as if it were your own children there’.

Despicable Hamas terrorists spent seven years spying on Israel through hacked security cameras before October 7, claim seized docs.

Recently deposed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was popular among the Western ultra-right for his anti-Semitic views, Holocaust denial, and ruthless persecution of his country’s Muslim population.

The US has killed an Islamic State leader and a second operative in an airstrike on Syria.

Foreign secretary says Britain is also working diplomatically to secure better governance in Syria after ousting of Assad

As King Charles and Prince William roll out the red carpet, human rights campaigners say they must press for reforms