US President Donald Trump (R) and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the White House US President Donald Trump has lashed out at Friedrich Merz after the German chancellor criticized the American aggression against Iran for lacking a clear exit strategy and said Tehran was "humiliating" Washington with its negotiating tactics...

Pope Leo on Sunday described those who wage wars and appropriate the earth`s resources as thieves who rob the world of a peaceful future...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer A recent survey reveals that UK retailers have experienced the sharpest year-on-year decline in sales in more than four decades, driven by the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran, which has heightened inflation fears among shoppers...

Iranians take part in a mass burial for students martyred in a US-Israeli airstrike against a girls` elementary school in the city of Minab, southern Iran...

Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) shakes hands with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Moscow, April 27, 2026...

A damaged U.S. Boeing E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control aircraft following an Iranian strike at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, along with a senior delegation, arrived in Islamabad April 24, 2026...

Iran`s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi Iran`s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi left Islamabad on Saturday after holding discussions with senior Pakistani officials on regional security and a ceasefire with the United States, during which he presented Iran`s demands on ending the eight-week war...

File photo of Iranian servicemen patrolling the Strait of Hormuz as commercial traffic passes by A giant banner hangs on the side of a building in Tehran`s central Enqelab Square declaring, "The Strait of Hormuz will remain closed; the entire Persian Gulf is our hunting ground...

US President Donald Trump US President Donald Trump has extended a two-week ceasefire with Iran while announcing the continuation of an blockade on the Islamic Republic`s ports and vessels-despite Tehran`s insistence that the blockade must be lifted for bilateral talks to continue...

Pope Leo XIV speaks as he attends a meeting with the authorities, civil society and the diplomatic corps in Luanda, Angola on April 18, 2026...

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy says Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz after the United States chose to maintain its blockade of the Islamic Republic`s ports in violation of the conditions of the ongoing ceasefire...

Iran will control Strait of Hormuz until deal reached to end war Iran`s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) says the Islamic Republic will maintain control of all traffic through the strategic Strait of Hormuz until a negotiated end to the US-Israeli-imposed war is achieved...

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei Iran`s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Esmaeil Baghaei, says maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz must strictly follow routes designated by Tehran and operate under full Iranian coordination...

IRGC Navy has complete control over the Strait of Hormuz...

International Monetary Fund (IMF) building in Washington, D...

File photo shows IRGC vessels during a ceremony marking the National Persian Gulf Day in the Persian Gulf, Iran...

the talks between the Iranian and American teams ended a few minutes ago and the two sides have not reached an agreement due to the US team`s excessive demands and ambitions...

Pope Leo XIV presides over the Prayer Vigil for Peace at St Peter`s Basilica, on April 11, 2026 in Vatican City, Vatican...

The Iranian negotiation delegation headed by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf (left) consults following the first phase of negotiations with the US delegation in Islamabad, April 11, 2026...

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei has called for public condemnation of the assassination threats leveled against Iranian negotiators amid ongoing talks with the United States that are aimed at permanently ending the US-Israeli aggression against the country...

Iran and the US start peace deal negotiations mediated by Pakistan in Islamabad...

US President Donald Trump Pakistani news networks have described Donald Trump`s announcement of a two-week suspension in the American attacks on Iran as the American president`s ultimate surrender to the Islamic Republic...

US President Donald Trump Pakistani news networks have described Donald Trump`s announcement of a two-week suspension in the American attacks on Iran as the American president`s ultimate surrender to the Islamic Republic...

A television station broadcasts a news conference with US President Donald Trump on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Monday, April 6, 2026...

A historic synagogue belonging to the Jewish community in Tehran was targeted in a US-Israeli attack on April 7, 2026...

Marjorie Taylor Greene and President Donald Trump had a public falling out in recent months, which she claimed was spurred by her push to release the Epstein files...

The debris of two Black Hawk helicopters and a C-130 transport plane destroyed by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), during a rescue mission to retrieve a crew member of a downed F-15 Eagle, Isfahan Province, Iran, April 5, 2026...

Esmaeil Baqaei. Esmaeil Baqaei reported that a number of Afghan nationals residing in Iran as honored guests were either killed or injured during recent military operations...

Former national security adviser John Bolton said President Donald Trump is likely "back in a panic mode" on Friday after Iran shot down two U...

Iran`s FM says any radioactive fallout from attacks on Bushehr nuclear plant will end life in the region...

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf Iran`s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf says the ongoing aggression is "Israel`s war," adding that its security repercussions and resulting losses have extended beyond the region and affected the wider world...

A combo provided by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) on April 3, 2026 shows the aftermath of various successful strikes carried out by its Aerospace Force against enemy projectiles and drones as well as a warplane belonging to aggressors...

File photo of an American A-10 Warthog warplane Iran`s Army has announced downing of an American A-10 Warthog warplane by the Islamic Republic`s integrated air defense network over the country`s southern waters near the Strait of Hormuz...

The B1 Bridge linking Karaj to Tehran, bombed by the US before a second strike on April 2, 2026...

The image shows Iran`s Pasteur Institute after US-Israeli attacks hit it...

A woman on March 12 looks out upon residential buildings that were destroyed a few days prior following a U...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has released an open letter to the American people, questioning whether Washington is truly putting "America First" or merely acting as a "proxy for Israel" willing to fight "to the last American soldier...

A US Navy fighter jet prepares to launch from USS Abraham Lincoln, in a photo released on March 2...

American flyers still smarting from interminable airport security lines are about to get another shock...

Iran`s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf Iran`s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has criticized US foreign policy after a CNN report revealed that American families are skipping meals to afford skyrocketing gas prices triggered by the US-Israeli war on Iran...

This picture, released on March 29, 2026, purportedly shows the wreckage of a Boeing E3 Sentry surveillance aircraft belonging to the US Air Force, which was destroyed in an Iranian retaliatory operation, at the US-run al-Kharj Airbase in Saudi Arabia...

Fatima Fatouni (R), a correspondent for the Beirut-based and pan-Arab al-Mayadeen television news channel, and Ali Shuaiba, a journalist for al-Manar television channel Two pro-resistance Lebanese journalists and a cameraman were killed when the Israeli military carried out a strike against an area in the southern sector of Lebanon...

Yemeni armed forces spokesman Yahya Saree The Yemeni Armed Forces says it has officially joined the war against the US-Israeli front in support of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Resistance Front in Lebanon, Iraq, and Palestine...

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and the Trump White House engaged in a fiery back-and-forth on Friday, just a day after US President Donald Trump joked about his feud with Greene during Thursday`s cabinet meeting...

File photo of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant in southern Iran The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran confirms that the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant in the country`s south has been struck by a projectile, marking the third attack on the facility during ongoing unprovoked American-Israeli aggression targeting the Islamic Republic...

IRGC hits another invading US warplane, an F-18, in Iran`s airspace The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has announced that it successfully targeted another invading US warplane in Iranian airspace...

An Israeli commercial plane is seen parked at the Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv, Israeli-occupied territories...

A mural at the Vali Asr Square in central Tehran...

A US Tomahawk cruise missile struck the Minab school during school hours, killing 168 children between the ages of seven and 12 on February 28, 2026...