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March 17 (Reuters) - Iran's security chief Ali Larijani has been killed, Iranian media confirmed on Tuesday. (Reporting by Yomna Ehab, Editing by Franklin Paul)

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The 2026 World Cup matches will be played as per schedule announced last year, the football organisation says.

Suspects accused of felony and misdemeanor charges, but not hate crimes, after assault on men speaking Hebrew outside restaurant The post Three men charged for attack on 2 Israeli-Americans in San Jose appeared first on The Times of Israel.

Strait of Hormuz won’t return to pre-war status, Iranian official says  Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf wrote in English that “the Strait of Hormuz situation won’t return to its pre-war status” in a post on X on Tuesday.  Ghalibaf did not elaborate further. US President Donald Trump had previously encouraged other countries to send their navies to secure the waterway.

At least three drones reportedly targeted the US embassy in Iraq’s capital Tuesday

The significance of Trump appointee Joe Kent resigning over the Iran war  CNN

Diners at a restaurant in Baghdad witnessed the moment a C-RAM air defence system attempted to intercept a drone.

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Iraq asks Iran for oil tanker passage through Strait of Hormuz  The New Arab

Leaders of Colombia and Ecuador trade allegations after Gustavo Petro says 27 charred bodies found on country's border.

Israeli military says it struck more than 10 Basij force posts Israel's military hit ten Basij force posts across Tehran in recent hours, the military said on Tuesday.  The increase in Israeli strikes on Basij security checkpoints in Iran is part of a push to undermine the Iran's ability to contain unrest, an independent monitoring group said last week.

Bondi will face questions about the Trump administration's compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act in April.

By John Irish PARIS, March 17 (Reuters) - Initial findings by an internal U.N. inquiry suggest Israeli tank fire hit a U.N. position in southern Lebanon on March 6, wounding Ghanaian peacekeepers, according to a Western military source, underscoring the growing risks as Israeli operations expand. The U.N. peacekeeping mission known as UNIFIL is stationed in southern Lebanon to monitor hostilities along the demarcation line with Israel - an area that is at the heart of clashes between Israeli troops and Iran-backed Hezbollah fighters.

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The Latest: Iran confirms security chief Larijani killed as Israel hits more top leaders  WRAL

China’s Hormuz Problem  Foreign Policy

Iran warns Strait of Hormuz will not return to pre-war conditions | Daily Sabah  Daily Sabah