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Mourners pack the streets of Tehran for ceremonies to pay homage to top Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani, after he was killed in a US strike in Baghdad. IMAGES
Mourners pack the streets of Tehran for ceremonies to pay homage to top Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani, after he was killed in a US strike in Baghdad. IMAGES
People gather at the scene after six people were killed in Israeli strikes on an annex of the Iranian embassy in Damascus. IMAGES
The United States condemns recent Iranian strikes in Pakistan, Iraq and Syria, which Tehran has claimed were carried out against "anti-Iranian terrorist groups." "We do condemn those strikes. We've seen Iran violate the sovereign borders of three of its neighbors in just the past couple of days," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Images of damaged properties in Arbil and shrapnel from a missile after Iran's Revolutionary Guards launched missile attacks on multiple targets in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region and Syria. IMAGES
The United Nations Assembly observed a minute of silence to pay tribute to the victims of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria. "The United Nations is mobilizing to support emergency response and so let's work together in solidarity to assist all those hit by this disaster," said UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. The combined death toll rose to more than 2,300 for Turkey and Syria on Monday from the region's strongest earthquake in nearly a century. IMAGES