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Iran's acting foreign minister discusses responses with regional counterparts after the assassination of Hamas' leader in Tehran, raising tensions with Israel.

The missile that struck a building in southern Beirut on Tuesday, killing Hezbollah’s senior military commander Fuad Shukr, had been widely anticipated. Three days earlier, a Hezbollah rocket – which had no doubt missed its military target in northern Israel – struck a football pitch in the Israeli-controlled Syrian Golan…

Network denounces ‘targeted assassination’ of its employees

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is calling for “all parties” in the Middle East to avoid escalatory actions that could plunge the region into further conflict

Haniyeh’s body is being carried through Tehran towards Azadi Square before being flown to Qatar for burial.

Iran’s supreme leader and Palestinian militia representatives have prayed over the coffin of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who were killed in a shocking assassination blamed on Israel that risked escalating into an all-out regional war

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Palestine urges world not to let Israel ‘drag us all to the abyss’ as Iran pledges retaliation for Haniyeh’s death.

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has vowed to inflict “harsh punishment” on Israel in retaliation for the assassination of the top Hamas political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran.