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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former Auburn men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl called Iran the “head of the snake” and backed President Donald Trump hours after the United States and Israel launched a joint attack on the country. Pearl, one of a handful of Jewish coaches in college basketball before his retirement in September, took to social media shortly after the U.S. joined Israel in launching preemptive strikes against Iran on Saturday morning.  Auburn Tigers head coach Bruce Pearl during the first half in the South Regional final of the 2025 NCAA tournament against the Michigan State Spartans…

Brumbies flyhalf Declan Meredith says his star predecessors have shaped him into the player he is as he continued his blistering form against the Blues.

Over the past few weeks, Trump has sent warships and dozens of fighter planes to the Middle East, raising fears of a US strike – even as US and Iranians diplomats held indirect talks on Iran’s nuclear programme. But early on Saturday, the tensions came to a head as Israeli and US warplanes began hitting targets in Iran, with Trump urging Iranians to stand up to their government and telling them: “The hour of your freedom is at hand.”Turkey, which shares a 500-kilometre border with Iran, currently hosts more than 74,000 Iranians with residence permits and some 5,000 refugees.While the unrest…

The United States and Israel on Saturday launched an attack on Iran, with explosions seen across Tehran and in multiple cities across the country. Tehran has responded by launching waves of missiles and drones at Israel and towards several military bases in the Middle East where US forces operate.Iran had previously warned that if it were attacked, it would respond by targeting US military facilities across the region. “This operation will continue relentlessly until the enemy is decisively defeated,” Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said. All US assets throughout the region are considered legitimate targets for Iran’s army, it…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Iran launched missile and drone strikes targeting U.S. military facilities in multiple Middle Eastern countries Friday, retaliating after coordinated U.S.–Israeli strikes on Iranian military and nuclear-linked sites.Explosions were reported in or near areas hosting American forces in Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Jordan, according to regional officials and state media accounts. Several of those governments said their air defense systems intercepted incoming projectiles.It remains unclear whether any U.S. service members were killed or injured, and the extent of potential damage to American facilities has not yet been confirmed. U.S.…

Regalo Press We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In his memoir, “Never Mind the Happy: Showbiz Stories from a Sore Winner” (published by Regalo Press), Tony- and Emmy-winning composer Marc Shaiman, known for Broadway hits like “Hairspray,” and music for “South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut,” writes of his half-century in show business. Read the prologue below, in which he recounts preparing to perform on the Oscar stage with the idol of his youth, Bette Midler (an adoration that would grow into a collaboration), and don’t miss Tracy Smith’s interview with Marc Shaiman on…

Hours after a bitter feud between the Pentagon and Anthropic ended with the Trump administration cutting off the artificial intelligence startup, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told CBS News in an exclusive interview Friday night he wants to work with the military — but only if it addresses the firm’s concerns.”We are still interested in working with them as long as it is in line with our red lines,” he said.The conflict centers on Anthropic’s push for guardrails that explicitly prevent the military from using its powerful Claude AI model to conduct mass surveillance on Americans or to power autonomous weapons.…

FlightRadar24 Air traffic across the middle East on Feb. 28th, 2026.Source: Flightradar24Airlines paused flights to Tel Aviv, Dubai, Doha and other cities after airspace was closed over a large swath of the Middle East after the United States and Israel launched a military operation in Iran. Qatar Airways said it was temporarily suspending all flights while Dubai-based Emirates said its Dubai flights were halted. “We apologise to customers affected by disruptions for any inconvenience caused, and we are assisting them with rebooking, refunds, or alternative travel arrangements,” Emirates said, in a statement. “The safety and security of our passengers and…

The UN Security Council is set to have an emergency meeting after the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran, plunging the Middle East into a new conflict.UN diplomats said the 15-member body would meet on Saturday at 4pm local time in New York (8am AEDT Sunday).The meeting will be chaired by Britain, which holds the monthly council presidency.Russia’s UN mission said Russia and China requested an emergency meeting “in connection with the unprovoked act of armed aggression by the United States and Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran.”It said the meeting was also called for by France,…

NewsFeedFootage from Tehran shows burned vehicles, wrecked buildings, towering plumes of smoke, and a massive crater after US-Israeli strikes on Iran.Published On 28 Feb 202628 Feb 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2Shareplus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo