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Israeli troops move into multiple towns in southern Lebanon, engaging Hizbullah in firefights, as strikes continue to hit Tehran and its territory
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US-Israeli war on Iran enters fourth day amid mounting death toll across Gulf
Israeli ground forces enter southern Lebanon after Iranian-backed Hizbullah fire rockets and launch drones in retaliation
As many as 2,000 Irish people stranded in Gulf states due to Iran war, says Helen McEntee
Minister for Foreign Affairs expects Taoiseach to raise concerns about US-Israel attacks during White House meeting
US and Israel not on same page over war aims and this could cause difficulties
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Israel spent years hacking Tehran’s traffic cameras, monitoring guards before the assassination
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Beijing offers diplomatic backing after US–Israel strikes but avoids commitments that could disrupt its wider Gulf ties
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Situation feels like early days of Covid, with sense of disruption but also resilience, says Irish woman living in Dubai
Iran executes Khamenei’s plan to spread regional war
Strikes on energy facilities and targets across Middle East form strategy devised to sow chaos in retaliation for US and Israeli attack
Katie McCabe: ‘We know it’s not right on a human level what’s going on in Gaza’
Ireland captain outlined discussion with FAI CEO over men’s team’s fixtures against Israel
As Israel pounds Hizbullah in Lebanon, refugees flee back into Syria
‘When we fled the war at home, they tried to stop us coming. Now there is war here, they’re not letting us leave’
Merz abandons Germany’s moral certainties as he aligns with Trump on Iran
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US and Israel continue assault on Iran as war spreads across the Gulf
Hundreds reportedly killed across region as Donald Trump says military operations could last ‘four to five weeks’
Irish citizens in UAE could be bussed to Oman if Dubai and Abu Dhabi flights remain restricted
Senior officials and Ministers met in Dublin earlier to discuss the escalating crisis in Middle East and Gulf region
US and Israel attacks on Iran necessary to stop ‘intolerable threat’ of nuclear weapons, says Trump
Gas prices soar amid Middle East conflict; ‘limited resumption’ of flights from Dubai airports
US‑Israel war with Iran spills into Lebanon, killing at least 52 and injuring more than 150
Hizbullah fires on Israel after Khamenei’s killing, prompting Israeli strikes as conflict spreads across region
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Closure of Strait of Hormuz, a key transit route from the Gulf region, leaves few options to secure deliveries
US and Israel are seeking a regime change in Iran but the outcome of conflict is uncertain
Trump, having previously claimed Tehran’s atomic facilities were ‘obliterated’, has repeatedly claimed it is developing nuclear weapons
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Saudi Arabia also closes an oil refinery after strike
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What is the situation for Irish tourists in Dubai and other parts of the Gulf?
Airspace remains closed in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha and elsewhere due to ongoing attacks and the risk of further strikes from Iran
Trump’s attacks on Iran reveal an American military power unrestrained
Few of America’s allies have condemned its action, despite most tacitly acknowledging it to be illegal
Americans left asking ‘what next’ after Trump leads country into war
US president had been warned air raids on Iranian leader unlikely to be successful
‘The plane flew and started spraying’: Israel accused of poisoning Syrian farmland with chemicals
Villagers report dying fields, damaged livestock and fears for their livelihoods
Death toll rises as Israel and US continue air attacks and Iran fires hundreds of missiles
Donald Trump says he has agreed to talk to Iran’s new leaders
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Massive explosion rocks Tehran as death toll from strike on school reportedly rises to 148
The Irish Times view on the attacks on Iran: dangerous, illegal and ill-conceived
The threat from Iran’s repressive regime will not be solved by air and missile attacks
As strikes intensify, Israel worries Trump will hit the brakes
Fears of an abrupt US halt hang over Israel amid its most intensive campaign against Iran in decades
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Opec+ agrees to raise production after Gulf oil flows disrupted by US and Israeli attacks on Iran
Afghanistan targets Pakistani jets over Kabul as conflict continues
Heavy fighting raises fear of protracted conflict that will add to instability in region
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Swift killing reflected the close co-ordination and intelligence sharing between the US and Israel
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At least 13 flights between Ireland and the Middle East were cancelled on Sunday, with warnings of further disruption
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, 1939-2026
Hardline cleric who led Islamic Republic since 1989 projected power across the region and suppressed protests at home
Trump, the self-declared president of peace, goes to war seeking regime change
Iranian-American jubilation at the death of Iran’s brutal supreme leader tempered by uncertainty over the country’s trajectory
Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei confirmed dead following US-Israeli attacks
Yechiel Leiter updated American officials that Israel had succeeded in killing Khamenei
President Connolly calls for immediate diplomacy following strikes in Middle East
Irish citizens should not undertake travel to Iran, Minister says
Live: Netanyahu says ‘all indications’ show Khamenei is ‘no longer with us’ following strikes
201 people killed and 747 injured, according to Iranian media reports
‘I was speaking with my mother and we heard the rockets’: Iranians in Ireland react
Dozens of Iranians attended a protest in Dublin on Saturday
Regime change in Iran unlikely without mass defections from military
Attaining Donald Trump’s declared objective would require sending in ground forces
For Israel and Iran, this is the big one
What happens next could depend on how much damage the Iranian regime can inflict - and whether the Iranian people can rise up against it
Iran and the United States: key issues that divide them
Washington has raised concerns about Tehran’s nuclear programme, ballistic missiles and allied militant groups
Trump says US has begun ‘major combat operations’ in Iran
Large explosions reported in Tehran as air-raid sirens sound across Israel
Trump’s goal in attacking Iran is unclear. So are the consequences
The US has been building up a massive military deployment in the Middle East, making it difficult for Trump to back down
Trump ‘not happy’ with Iran talks as US urges its citizens to leave Israel immediately
Warning comes as talks over the future of Iran’s nuclear programme ended inconclusively
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