Parliament speaker Ali Larijani compared Soleimani's killing to the 1953 CIA-backed coup that cemented the shah's power and to the U.S. Navy's shootdown of an Iranian passenger plane.

A defiant Lindsey Graham appeared on Fox News on Sunday and pulled no punches when asked about some of the president's fiercest critics, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Iran's first retaliatory move was delivered in a 22-missile strike on US bases in Iraq last night. However, despite an array of devastating options it is believed the Ayatollah pulled his punches.

Iran on Wednesday launched more than a dozen missiles against two US-led military bases in response to the US assassination of an Iranian military chief.

PETER OBORNE: The firing of ballistic missiles at US bases is the biggest and most dangerous military confrontation between America and Iran since the American hostage crisis in 1979.

Abdollah Araghi said more attacks are coming after a strike on US bases failed to kill anyone, while air force commander Amir Ali Hajizadeh (pictured) said Iran was ready to kill up to 5,000 Americans.

Bertie Carvel, 42, stars alongside Waleed Zuaiter, 49, in Channel 4's gripping new thriller Baghdad Central. The pair told how having an Arab Muslim as the lead character is nothing less than historic.

Diane Douglas 'completely broke down' when she discovered a massive metal container had been dumped on the grave of her son Allan, who was shot dead in Iraq, at Dyce Cemetery in Aberdeen.

President Donald Trump fired Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman from the White House on Friday after the war hero testified against him in the House impeachment inquiry.

'Fake News @CNN & MSDNC keep talking about "Lt. Col." Vindman as though I should think only how wonderful he was,' Trump wrote in a tweet on Saturday morning from the White House.

As part of his bid to become the next Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer has made political capital out of his legal career by highlighting the cases he has pursued on behalf of the 'underdog'.

Between 1987 and 1991 she served as an MP with the Radical Party and made headline-grabbing policy pledges, such as offering to have sex with Saddam Hussein in return for peace in Iraq.

A soldier stationed in Iraq spotted two men breaking into his Illinois garage. Soldier Richard Wharton was 6,500 miles away and using an app on his phone spotted the burglars walking out with tools.

It is my privilege to publish the defence of two scientists who could not abide the suppression of the evidence they had gathered regarding an alleged atrocity in Syria, writes PETER HITCHENS.

STEPHEN GLOVER: It concerns the kidnapping of a young woman on a British street, and the subsequent connivance of the Labour government in this unlawful act...

Peter McAleese (pictured serving in the South African Defence Force) joined the British Army aged 17 and became a 'gun for hire' after nine years of service to recapture the 'buzz'.

The Ministry of Defence has named the British servicewoman killed in a missile attack on Camp Taji in Iraq as Lance Corporal Brodie Gillon, 26.

Archaeologists have uncovered a sacred plaza in Iraq that was used to appease Ningirsu - a hero-god of war. Some 5,000 years ago, where people held feasts, rituals and animal sacrifices in the pit.

Documents show Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II (left), was informed of a meteorite that killed one man and paralysed another after landing in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, on August 22, 1888.

Cleavon Gilman, who works at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Washington Heights, tweeted his horror with a video of a packed Sheep Meadow in Central Park on Saturday.

The 39-year-old KUWTK reality star simply captioned her slideshow: 'Hey!'

Kim Kardashian shared a tweet sent to her by her sister Kourtney featuring a passage written by the late psychic Sylvia Browne that some have suggested pointed toward the coronavirus years ago.

Kim said in the video: 'She made a quarantined section for Kim and Kanye.' She then revealed some rag doll versions of herself and Kanye sitting at a tiny table with a bottle of hand sanitizer.

With schools moving to online learning, libraries closed, sports called off and enrichment classes cancelled, not to mention the social distancing movement, it's time to get creative.

The 35-year-old reality star has been best friends with the 37-year-old new mother since 1999, so she was thrilled to become an 'auntie'

Kourtney wore a graphic beige sweatshirt and pink logo'd sweatpants. Her long hair was styled in a top knot and she sported sunglasses.

The 57-year-old former roadside zoo owner is in prison serving 22 years for a murder-for-hire plot as well as violating the Lacey Act and Endangered Species Act

In a sneak peek at Thursday's episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, the 24-year-old model suggested her big sister's split from the husband of her children, Scott Disick, was to blame.

Kendall Jenner took her purple 1960 Cadillac Eldorado convertible out for a spin with the top down with her BFF Fai Khadra. They drove down LA's iconic Mulholland Drive.

Kim and Beyoncé have been plagued with rumors they aren't friends ever since Knowles-Carter declined invites to both Kardashian's 2013 baby shower and 2014 wedding to Kanye West

On Tuesday, the reality star and BFF Stassie Karanikolaou posted an epic TikTok video of the pair recreating some of the most iconic moments from Keeping Up With The Kardashians.

The reality star, 22, expressed her fears in a new teaser for Keeping Up With The Kardashians, without identifying the individual who contracted the disease.

She said: 'I thought Christmastime would be the perfect opportunity to really take my kids - I wanted to do something really special with them where they feel how good it feels to give back.'

Kourtney Kardashian has been enduring the coronavirus lockdown at home with her three kids. 

The cosmetics billionaire tried out one of Instagram's blue eye filters that she's used in recent days with her friend Stassie Karanikolaou and her daughter Stormi.

Sergey Kazakov, 35, made the boy kneel on the grains for up to nine hours at a time. The punishment - approved by his mother Alina Yumasheva, 27 - was at one point inflicted on ten consecutive days.

The Suffolk town is the only British destination in the global ranking for this category. It comes 14th in the list. Attractions include the New Wolsey Theatre, Christchurch Mansion and 'unique shops'.

In a clip, filmed by ornithologist Nika Zubra, the Eurasian eagle-owl is seen waiting outside the window of a room in Moscow, Russia with a letter held in its beak.

A kitten's greedy expression as it forces its head down a cardboard tube to reach a piece of chicken has been caught on film. Owner Anastasia Sviridova took the video at home in Kansk, Russia.

Creating fears about shortages of products in shops to 'spread uncertainty' and undermine the West would be straight out of the 'Russian toolbox', one British official said.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin met with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. amid the steep drop in financial markets Monday.

Natalia Korotova, 33, from Perm Krai in Russia, is the proud owner of London, a nine-month-old puma, who is already incredibly large and a big presence in her home.

The Lunar-25 lander will be the first time Russia has launched a spacecraft to land on the surface of the Moon since 1976 - when Lunar-24 touched down.

EVGENY LEBEDEV: It is not 'racist' to confront the medieval beliefs of so-called traditional medicine around the world. If China fails to act, the rest of the world should take steps to force its hand.

Short of stature and with a strangely expressionless face, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin seemed the image of a boring bureaucrat when he was elected Russia's third president 20 years ago.

Hilarious video footage shows a man trying to taunt a beaver somewhere near Moscow - but the animal is in no mood to be played with. It leaps at the man who runs off and is laughed at by his friends.

The unbeaten Russian was due to face Tony Ferguson on April 18 in New York, but was told by the UFC that the fight was '99% likely' to take place in the UAE and so left the United States.

The two bitter rivals were set to go toe-to-toe inside the octagon at UFC 249 on April 18 but the global coronavirus pandemic has left the main event hanging in the balance.

Khabib Nurmagomedov's fight with Tony Ferguson at UFC 249 has been called off with the lightweight champion unable to leave Russia due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Khabib Nurmagomedov suggested last week that he would not be breaking Russia's national lockdown to fight Tony Ferguson - a bout that has been mooted five times but has never taken place.