Hundreds of people have been killed across the Middle East as strikes on Iran continue, Israel launches an offensive in Lebanon, and Iran returns fire across the region. Follow our rolling coverage.

The US is claiming success in curbing Iran’s ability to launch missiles and drones across the Middle East, as the son of slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei emerges as his likely successor.

The first flight from Dubai since the Middle East war began is set to touch down in Sydney.

Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the recently killed ayatollah, is understood by Iranian opposition media to have succeeded his father in the country's leadership plan.

Melbourne academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert, says the road to find a replacement for slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is more complex than reported.

For months before Saturday’s strike on Iran, politicians and analysts argued about the country’s nuclear capability. Trump cut through them.

The Islamic Republic’s naval headquarters is in ruins, one of its elite admirals is dead, and its finest warships are ablaze in the Gulf of Oman.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong has warned of the historic challenge of repatriating Australians from the Middle East, with the ADF standing ready to support the operation.

Israeli spies spent years watching Iran’s late supreme leader and his entourage on the streets of their own capital city.

Publicly rebuked by the president and deeply unpopular at home, Keir Starmer is sticking to his guns over Iran and wants to avoid “the mistakes of Iraq”.

The Islamic Republic is aiming to drive up the cost of the war for the US president – American casualties, energy costs, inflation – to persuade him to declare victory and go home.

Republican senator Thom Tillis has lashed Secretary of Homeland Security at a heated hearing.

The president denied Israel forced his hand in starting the war, and said new strikes have taken out multiple rounds of potential candidates to replace former supreme leader Ali Khamenei.

The president denied Israel forced his hand in starting the war, and said new strikes have taken out multiple rounds of potential candidates to replace former supreme leader Ali Khamenei.

Prosecutors said Colin Gray knew his son, Colt, was obsessed with school shooters and had a bedroom shrine to the gunman in the 2018 massacre at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Khamenei was a polarising political and spiritual leader opposed by many Iranians, yet was also revered by some, who have called for revenge.

The US-Israel war on Iran continues, while attacks have also started on the Iran-backed Hezbollah group in Lebanon. Hundreds of people have been killed across the region as Iran returns fire. Follow our rolling coverage.

The death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has created an unprecedented succession crisis, with an interim council looking for the next supreme leader as the US-Israeli assault on the country continues.

There are many echoes of Australia’s past mistakes in the government’s tacit approval of Donald Trump’s unilateralism.

The US and Israel have used the same perverse justification for the attack on Iran that Putin used to invade Ukraine.