Category: 4. World

“He wasn’t a politician, he was just a teenager, working hard to support our family back home,” Abdul Ghani tells us of his eldest son Abdul Wali, 18, killed in an Israeli strike in Iran.

His father, says that Abdul was working and living in a…

IRAN HAS an uncanny way of hijacking American presidencies. The 1979 Iranian revolution and subsequent hostage crisis ended Jimmy Carter’s presidency. The Iran-contra affair tainted Ronald Reagan’s presidency. Iranian machinations in post-war…

Joshua Cheetham
BBC Verify journalist

We’ve been speaking to experts about the latest satellite imagery showing the impact of…

Israel’s launch of air attacks against Iran on Friday prompted Tehran to fire a wave of retaliatory strikes on Israel, and some Iranian ballistic missiles have pierced through Israel’s missile defence systems and hit key targets.

Israel’s…

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR’s international team shares snapshots of moments from their lives and work around the world.

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Since Israel started bombing Iran last Friday, and Iran hit back in retaliation, the battlefield has not just stayed on the ground but expanded to include the internet. A huge amount of disinformation is being spread there by both sides: mainly…