Israel
Israeli ambassador says it’s ‘mind-boggling’ to question legal basis for war on Iran
Israel’s new ambassador says Australia was on the “right side of history” by backing strikes against Iran as he warned against calls for a ceasefire.
- Matthew Knott
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‘Wartime traitors’: Iran state TV condemns women’s soccer team for anthem silence
Iranian commentators have warned the lives of Iran’s national team “are in imminent danger”.
- Emma Kemp
‘We are bringing hell on you’: Panic in Beirut suburbs as Israel launches airstrikes
In another escalation of the wider war against Iran, thousands of Lebanese families fled their homes after Israeli forces warned them of a wave of bombing to target Hezbollah groups.
- David Crowe
- Opinion
- Middle East at war
An oppressed people are, once again, lured onto the street only to have their hopes dashed
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.
- Waleed Aly
US-Iran war news updates: Iranian warship sunk by torpedo off Sri Lanka; Hegseth says US ‘just getting started’; First repatriation flight lands in Sydney
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.
- Emily Kaine, Ellen Connolly, Josefine Ganko and Alexander Darling
- Letters
- Letters
Leaders behaving badly or if not, woefully
Readers evaluate the actions of Trump, Netanyahu and the words of Albanese and the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, and only one of them gets a positive result.
Australians on sub that sank Iranian warship in Indian Ocean
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.
- Michael Koziol and Andrew Probyn
Dubai influencers warned they face jail over war posts
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.
- Patrick Sawer and Alice Lilley
How the US sank one of Iran’s most modern warships
The spectacular destruction of an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka underlines how the US-Israeli military operation is stretching far beyond Iran’s borders.
- Tom Housden
- Tony Wright’s Column
- Middle East at war
How the world’s most extravagant party set Iran on a path to ruin
Roasted peacocks, an Australian butler and the Shah: Inside the 1971 desert feast that sowed the seeds of revolution.
- Tony Wright