MUMBAI: India’s trade and energy supplies face fresh risks after reinsurers and Protection & Indemnity (P&I) clubs announced cancellation of war risk insurance for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz and Iranian waters, following an escalation in the Iran conflict. The cancellations, effective from this week, have left over 150 vessels stranded and disrupted a…
NEW DELHI: Two days after the US-led military mission Operation Epic Fury killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, President Donald Trump made a striking claim about past threats to his life.“I got him before he got me. They tried twice, I got him first,” Trump said, referring to what he described as Iranian plots…
Middle East is burning. US, Israel and Iran are engaged in a military conflict, de-stabilising the whole region. The targeted killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, by the United States and Israel marked one of the most consequential escalations in the region in decades.In Washington and Tel Aviv, the expectation appears clear: remove the…
Saudi Aramco’s Ras Tanura refining facility in Saudi Arabia was hit by falling debris from the interception of an Iranian drone on Monday, as the conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran continues even after Iran’s supreme leader Khamenei’s killing.A Saudi military spokesman made the announcement on the state-run Saudi Press Agency. The Jerusalem…
A wave of cyber-enabled operations took place early Saturday morning alongside the joint US-Israeli attack on targets across Iran. Just minutes after the first set of explosions, Iranians reportedly received slew of notifications on their phones. These notifications were not from the government advising caution, but from the prayer timing app called ‘BadeSaba Calendar’. The…
Video footage circulating on social media shows the moment an Iranian missile struck a highway in the Jerusalem area late on Sunday, leaving seven people injured and scattering debris across the road.According to Israel’s national fire service, “Jerusalem District firefighters are currently responding at an impact site located on a highway… in the Jerusalem region.”…
An Islamic prayer-timing app widely used in Iran pushed a series of anti-regime messages to users on 28 February 2026. The notifications urged members of the security forces to abandon their posts and join what the messages described as “liberation forces.” According to multiple media reports, the messages appeared on BadeSaba Calendar, an app with…
US President Donald Trump on Sunday claimed that 48 Iranian leaders have been killed in ongoing US-Israeli military strikes, describing the operation as progressing faster than expected.“Nobody can believe the success we’re having, 48 leaders are gone in one shot. And it’s moving along rapidly,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News. In a…
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it destroyed two Iranian fighter jets that were ready to take off from Tabriz airport in western Iran, as hostilities between the two countries continue to escalate.In a statement posted on X, the IDF said the aircraft targeted were F-4 and F-5 fighter jets positioned for immediate departure.The military…
Representative image (Picture credit: ANI) An oil tanker was attacked off the coast of Oman in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, injuring four crew members and forcing a full evacuation, as tensions continue to escalate after US–Israel strikes on Iran.Oman’s Maritime Security Centre said the Palau-flagged tanker Skylight was targeted about five nautical miles north…