The simultaneous strike targeting Abdul Reza Shahlai, a financier and key commander of Iran's elite Quds Force who has been active in Yemen, did not result in his death.

The Trump administration sent Iran a back-channel fax just hours after Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian military leader, was killed in an airstrike. The message was sent via the Swiss Embassy.

For days, Iran denied that it was responsible for downing Flight 752 from Tehran to Kyiv on January 8. Johnson said he would do everything he can to support families of British victims.

Sara Saadat was studying at San Diego's Alliant International University and traveling with her sister, Saba Saadat, 21, and their mom, Shekoufeh Choupannejad, both from Edmonton, Canada.

President Donald Trump tweeted a message of support for Iranian protesters on Saturday, saying 'my Administration will continue to stand with you' as thousands decried the government in Tehran.

Washington's Lieutenant Governor Cyrus Habib shared on Saturday that he had been getting worrying text messages from people who had been stopped at the Peace Arch border crossing.

The warship set sail for the six-month mission on Monday against a backdrop of deteriorating relations between the United States and Iran.

The US considered targeting Iranian General Qassem Soleimani for the past 18 months. Trump chose to take out the general leading to his death by drone strike on January 3.

Australians will continue to fly through Iranian airspace despite the United states banning its flights because of pre-existing business deals with airlines in the area. 

President Donald Trump authorized taking out top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani seven months ago, but retained final authority to sign off on the move, according to a new report.

The Iranian missile barrage on the Ain al-Asad base in Iraq last Wednesday left huge craters in the ground and damaged military trailers in the compound.

Rev Hossein Soodmand (pictured), who converted before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, was arrested and tortured before being hanged after a sharia court convicted him of apostasy.

Gogglebox Australia star Symon Lovett has unleashed a blistering attack on STA Travel after he was forced to cancel his American holiday due to visa issues.

A free-swinging Donald Trump delivered a greatest-hits rally, riffing on impeachment, Iran, his impending China trade deal and the shrinking ranks of Democrats who want to replace him. 

Shohreh Bayat, 32, referee for the 2020 World Chess Championships in Shanghai and Vladivostock, fears returning to Iran after she was caught without a headscarf on.

US military officials counted down to the moment the Iranian general was killed, saying he had 'one minute to live', the president recalled at a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago Florida estate on Friday.

The Diba Parcham Khomeini factory produces flags to order and the owner said a lot of them are made for those who participate in Islamic Republic of Iran demonstrations.

In one of the bloodiest assaults since the beginning of the civil war, ballistic missiles ripped through the holy building at a military training camp in the central province of Marib.

Iran's civil aviation authority confirmed on Monday that two Tor-M1 missiles were fired at the Ukraine International Airlines plane in a catastrophic mistake that killed all 176 on board.

Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, a top IRGC commander, suspected that two Iranian missiles had destroyed a Ukrainian Airlines passenger jet just outside of Tehran almost immediately

The Pentagon raised the number of US service members injured to 50 after Iran retaliated on January 8 for the US drone strike month that killed General Qassem Soleimani.

Sitting moderate President Hassan Rouhani is not expected to pick up adequate support as many voters avoid the polls. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei voted in Tehran this morning.

Iraj Harirchi was taken into quarantine just a day after insisting that Iran's death toll was lower than feared in a sweaty appearance at a press conference.

The BBC Today host revealed how he drove to hospital to be met by a nurse in full protective gear for a test through his car window, and is now spending 48 hours at home in quarantine.

As the world braces for another pandemic with COVID-19 we look back at how Australia handled the Spanish flu - what worked and what did not, who was killed and who lived through it.

Jon Snow has been keeping himself busy during his self-isolation as he begun tidying his tie collection away amid coronavirus fears.

A man who recently travelled to Iran has become the fifth person in NSW to be diagnosed with coronavirus.

NSW Health announced three new coronavirus cases on Monday afternoon and confirmed a 53-year-old doctor from Sydney contracted the deadly virus.

Australians were on Monday told to swap handshakes for pats on the back and to be cautious about who they kiss as the number of cases climbed to 33.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 41, could leave Evin jail in Tehran either today or tomorrow according to Labour MP Tulip Siddiq. The prison is believed to have been hit by coronavirus.

A Macquarie University lecturer has tested positive for coronavirus after returning from Iran. The staff member became ill after returning from the western Asian country but had not been on campus.

The unverified video, which has been viewed over 836,000 times online, shows lines of seemingly full body bags lining the floors of the hospital.

On March 1, President Trump vowed that anyone returning from 'high risk countries' would be screened both before they boarded planes and once they had returned to the US.

Australians returning from overseas who refuse to self-isolate for 14 days could be fined $50,000 or jailed for a year for breaching a public health order.

Despite threats of arrest and fines of up to $50,000 for breaches of public health orders most Australian police forces are not checking on people in self-isolation.

Ayatollah Khamenei, the ruler of Iran, has suggested that America created a new strain of the coronavirus with the intention of infecting Iranians.

British mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 42, was freed last week for a fortnight from Iranian jail. Her daughter Gabriella Ratcliffe, five, drew a red aeroplane on her card for Mother's Day.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's temporary leave from prison in Tehran, Iran, in response to the Covid-19 epidemic, has been extended by two weeks and will now run until April 18.

Some 7,500 foreign troops are in Iraq as part of the US-led coalition helping local troops fight jihadist groups, but those numbers are being significantly drawn down this month.

A group of 11 ships with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps repeatedly crossed the bows and sterns of the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet at close range and high speed on Wednesday.

Social media star Sahar Tabar, 22, whose real name is Fatemeh Khishvand, from Tehran, shot to prominence after posting images of her eerily gaunt face.

Forty years on, a gripping account of the Iranian embassy siege - minute by nerve-shredding minute...

The British-Iranian woman, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, jailed in Iran on sedition charges must wait another day to hear whether her furlough from prison will be extended.

Medics discovered the coronavirus in the lungs of a 30-year-old woman from Iran who did not display symptoms days after a relatives died with Covid-19 (pictured, CT scan showing lung markings).

Iran has acquired three bomb-carrying drones with a range of 932 miles as tensions with the US escalate following the killing of General Soleimani (pictured, Shahed 129 drone).

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's temporary release from an Iranian jail has been extended for one month, with her husband revealing how the family have been video calling every day for several hours.

Iran has paid the deadliest price in the Middle East from the pandemic. Now another 76 fatalities have been declared amid the easing of lockdown measures - taking Iran's official death toll to 6,650.

Hackers from Russia and Iran have been attempting to gain access to British universities that are developing vaccines for the coronavirus. Pictured: Stock image of a hacker.

One lucky couple are slowly renovating the four-bedroom house linked to Ned Kelly (pictured) on 26 Henry St in Avenel in central Victoria after buying it in the mid-$400,000 range.

Some of the almost 2,500 dog attacks on postal workers in the UK last year, some of which resulted in permanent injury, 'could easily have ended in fatalities', a union official has warned.