After spending nearly two weeks in a secret bunker somewhere in Iran during his country's war with Israel, the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 86, might want to use the opportunity of the ceasefire to venture out.

In public, Qatar was insisting on the right to defend itself after Iran attacked a U.S. military site in the emirate. Behind the scenes, it was already mediating a truce between Israel and Iran.

The agreement involves two 12-hour ceasefire periods, starting with Iran.

 The Middle East archrivals will end their “12-day war,” the US president wrote on his Truth Social platform

Jewish screenwriters have allegedly pushed the image of an Iranian nuclear threat through film and TV since the early 2010s

The target was said to be the Al Udeid Air Base, the largest American military installation in the Middle East.

President’s social media posts contradict officials’ claims that US does not seek to topple government

No matter your opinion of the man, Trump was very different as he strode out to deliver the most consequential statement of his career.

With the eyes of the world awaiting its response in Iran, the US was not only able to eliminate its targets – but do it completely undetected.

U.S. intel, IAEA both suggest Iran isn't making a nuclear weapon, but worry remains over increasing enrichment

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says any U.S. military intervention will bring irreparable consequences

Tehran has a legal right to defend itself from West Jerusalem’s “banditry and state terrorism,” the Turkish president has said

Iran’s skies are under the “total control” of the US and its allies, the American president has claimed

Tehran and Moscow signed strategic pact earlier this year that included defence and economic partnerships