Stories from February 28, 2026

The US president, who had said he would avoid needless foreign wars, has embraced military power with few limits.

The supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has been killed in a joint US-Israeli air strikes on Saturday.

President Trump has appealed to Iranians to topple their government, but a popular uprising is unlikely to defeat current leadership or the Revolutionary Guards, a former US diplomat says.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei may be "no longer alive."

As the death toll reportedly rises in Iran and violence spreads through the Middle East, people around the world are responding to the war launched Saturday by the United States and Israel. Confusion, fear, celebration, destruction, and protest have defined the last 12 hours.  Here are some of the scenes unfolding across the globe:

In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

In the wee hours of Saturday morning, President Donald Trump announced he had launched a war against Iran. He insisted that Iran posed a direct threat to the United States. He detailed its past acts of aggression. He claimed he had tried to reach a deal with Tehran to end its nuclear program. He warned […]

Footage from Minab, Iran, shows the aftermath of an Israeli-US strike on a girls' elementary school.

BA, Virgin Atlantic and Wizz Air are among major airlines to overhaul their schedules in light of the attacks.

Video shows debris from an intercepted Iranian missile that landed in Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

State media says Israeli attack on girls' school in the city of Minab in the south of the country kills dozens.

Israeli air defence systems intercepted Iranian missiles over Haifa, as they retaliated for US-Israeli attacks on Iran.