Video shows smoke rising in the Iranian capital Tehran after Israel said it launched an attack
US President Donald Trump says American forces have begun “major combat operations” in Iran alongside Israel.
Plumes of smoke rose after Iran targeted a US military base in Bahrain, following Israel–US attacks across Iran.
Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly-blind Rohingya refugee, was found dead days after US Border Patrol agents released him.
![Activists gather in Buffalo, New York’s Elmwood Village neighbourhood following the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a near-blind refugee from Myanmar who was missing since his release from a jail into the custody of the US Border Patrol, and who was later found dead on Feb. 26, 2026. [Craig Ruttle/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-1772224025.jpg)
Pakistan and Afghanistan are disputing death tolls from their cross-border attacks.
Israeli settlers attacked a 71-year-old foreign woman and 51-year-old foreign man in the occupied West Bank.
Narendra Modi and Benjamin Netanyahu spoke of each other’s countries in civilisational terms to the Israeli Knesset.
![India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures upon his arrival at the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, in Jerusalem on February 25, 2026. [Ilia Yefimovich/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/AFP__20260225__98WU4L4__v1__HighRes__IsraelIndiaDiplomacy_cropped-1772050544.jpg)
The Foreign Press Association of Israel and the Palestinian Territories is demanding Israel let journalists into Gaza.
![Local residents visit a makeshift memorial for Ukrainian and foreign soldiers in Independence Square in Kyiv on February 24, 2026, on the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. [Henry Nichols/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/AFP__20260224__98RJ6KL__v1__HighRes__UkraineRussiaConflictWarAnniversary_cropped-1771956184.jpg?resize=730%2C410&quality=80)
