Flights from the Middle East to Australia are resuming, but the conflict continues to ravage the region as Israel strikes deeper into Lebanon, and the US and Iran trade blows. Follow our rolling coverage.

Politicians and pundits in Australia tell Muslims it is inappropriate to publicly mourn Iran’s dead supreme leader. There are no such qualms in Jakarta.

Two more repatriation flights have arrived in Australia but with hundreds of empty seats.

An Israeli evacuation alert spread panic through Beirut’s southern suburbs, forcing people to move north to escape the attacks and search for places to stay, choking highways and overloading shelters.

Tensions are at boiling point in the Middle East as hundred of thousands of people try to evacuate the region.

US Central Command has released footage of its forces striking an Iranian drone-carrying vessel.

With British PM Keir Starmer’s reputation state-side at a low, the King and Queen will have to work their magic on their latest visit.

The conflict in the Middle East is intensifying, as reports of drone strikes spread across the region, and Iran vows revenge after a US submarine torpedoed an Iranian warship. Follow our rolling coverage.

Oklahoma senator Markwayne Mullin has been a staunch defender of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.

Iranians deserve better than the ayatollahs – and they deserve better than an illegal war waged by a felonious, feckless president with no plan for what follows.

Illinois Senator Dick Durbin grilled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem before Senate Judiciary Committee.

The US president announced the home security secretary – the first person to be dumped from his cabinet in his second term – would be replaced at the end of the month.

Celebrating is the natural response of those living under authoritarianism to news their tyrant is gone. So much is loaded into the moment. Like releasing a breath that has been held for decades.

Hundreds of people have been killed across the Middle East as strikes on Iran continue, and retaliatory strikes impact the entire region. Follow our rolling coverage.

Two Australian sailors were aboard the US nuclear-powered sub that sank an Iranian frigate, amid reports US-backed Kurdish rebels are ready for a ground assault against Iranian troops.

Afghani men are now permitted to beat their wives as long as it does not cause “broken bones or open wounds”.

For the first time since World War II, the United States has used a torpedo to sink a warship, leaving 80 dead, and 150 others missing.

President Xi Jinping has put his country on track for its lowest growth target in three decades as he gets ready to welcome Donald Trump later this month.

With some of the harshest cybercrime laws in the world, in the UAE any commentary about regional conflict or security can be a criminal offence.

Attack drones are cheap, but defending against them is expensive – the bill for shooting them down could become unsustainable for the US.