
‘We have been preparing’: Why the boots on the ground in Iran could be Kurdish
Iranian Kurdish opposition groups in exile in northern Iraq tell the BBC they have plans to cross the border but deny already doing so.
MONDAY, 09 MARCH 2026, 19:11

Iranian Kurdish opposition groups in exile in northern Iraq tell the BBC they have plans to cross the border but deny already doing so.
One of the top officials overseeing President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, will leave her role, Trump said on Thursday, a major staffing move that raises questions about the direction of the Republican president’s immigration agenda.
As tensions rise across the Middle East, Kenyans fear economic shocks, disrupted exports and risks to the more than 400 000 Kenyans working in Gulf states.

The Today programme host visited her colleagues in the office on Thursday, as the search for her mum continues.
US President Donald Trump on Thursday insisted he should have a role in picking Iran’s next supreme leader after the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose son he said he found unacceptable.

Ecuador’s military says the drug-trafficking submersible was loaded with fuel and “ready to go”.

The Spanish government reiterated it would not let U.S. forces use two joint military bases in Spain as the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran escalates, widening a rift with the Trump administration.
A Pakistani man accused of planning to kill US President Donald Trump told jurors on Wednesday that he did not willingly work with Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps to devise the plot, media said.

This election will test whether the country is ready for a new, untried generation to shape its future.

The House is set to vote today on whether to constrain President Trump’s authority to continue to wage war on Iran. And, Minnesota sues the Trump administration over halted Medicaid funding.

The admission from the married Republican, Tony Gonzales, comes after a House panel launched an ethics investigation.

The U.S. and Israel said they conducted new strikes inside Iran overnight, targeting ballistic missile launchers. Iran claimed it struck a U.S. oil tanker in the northern Persian Gulf.

Mehdi Mahmoudian worries Iran could experience an endless cycle of violence unless — or until — it achieves democracy.

As Iran launches its Shahed drones at Gulf nations in retaliation for strikes by the U.S. and Israel, Ukraine offers its expertise at downing the drones Russia has lobbed at its cities for years.

China says it will send a special envoy to the Middle East to help mediate the US-Israel-Iran war, as Chinese political elites gather in Beijing for the annual “Two Sessions.”
A second Iranian warship was heading toward Sri Lanka’s territorial waters, a day after a US submarine destroyed an Iranian frigate, killing at least 87 sailors, a minister told parliament.

Tehran’s strikes come amid speculation that the US wants Iranian Kurdish groups to join the fight against Iran.

China has signaled continuity rather than change for its economy, setting a slightly lower target for growth this year in the midst of a property slump and other headwinds at home and growing uncertainty abroad.

The Canadian prime minister said Australia and Canada should work together as ‘strategic cousins’.

A trade court has cleared the way for businesses to receive refunds for tariffs that the Supreme Court struck down last month.

A strong supply of weapons and a history of long wars make Sudan’s conflict particularly troubling.