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Mexican gang boss “El Mencho” was buried in a shiny gold coffin as heavily armed soldiers guarded his funeral. Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, who led...

A top US politician has threatened Cuba’s leaders days after the killing of Iran’s head of state. Lindsey Graham, Republican senator for South Carolina...

Tributes have been paid to people killed in a mass shooting at a Texas bar – as it was confirmed a third victim has...

Take the win or double down. That’s Donald Trump’s dilemma as the war escalates with Iran. He says there could be weeks more to...

Some wars start slowly while others spring to life at speed. This one is racing, transforming nations, politics and loyalties at a spectacular rate....

There is nowhere else on the planet with quite as concentrated a supply of quite so much energy as the Arabian Gulf. This is...

The US has warned of more strikes on Iran after launching an operation which killed its supreme leader. With no end in sight to...

Already there are parts of Iran’s densely populated capital city Tehran that look like a pummelled war zone. We are starting to understand the...

What’s the plan Mr President? The clamour for an explanation for what comes next is building. Anxious allies across the region are demanding the...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was only the second leader of Iran’s Islamic Republic, established in April 1979. He took over from the regime’s founding figurehead,...

The world’s autocrats, from Vladimir Putin to Xi Jinping, will surely be sleeping a little less easy after the death of Iran’s supreme leader...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ruled Iran for decades, fuelled by paranoia, absolute power and a belief in his own divine destiny. He was the country’s...

Multiple locations in Iran have been targeted by joint US-Israel strikes, and Tehran has launched retaliatory missiles across the region. The Iranian cities hit...

Donald Trump’s decision to launch “major combat operations” in Iran is the biggest gamble by any American president since George Bush invaded Iraq more...

A military plane has crashed on to ‌a busy road in the ​city of El Alto, near Bolivia’s capital La Paz, killing 15 people...

Pakistan’s defence minister has said the ​country ‌is in an “open ​war” with neighbouring Afghanistan, after both nations launched strikes overnight. Khawaja ‌Muhammad Asif...

Ukraine’s president has spoken of personal challenges, after several years of conflict with Ukraine, admitting “I’m not the best father” in a Sky News...

Iran has offered to never stockpile nuclear material and will reduce its current stockpile to “almost nothing”, in return for elimination of sanctions,  according...

As the deadline looms for a leading AI lab to hand over its tech to the US military, a study has appeared suggesting AI...