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A government supporter weeps during a mourning ceremony marking the 40th day since the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]
In Iran’s capital, Tehran, mourners wearing black began their rally from Jomhouri Eslami Square to the neighbourhood of the office of Khamenei, 86. [Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]
Khamenei’s body has yet to be officially buried since his death on February 28. [Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]
The national tribute commenced at 9:40am (06:10 GMT), the exact time Ali Khamenei was killed on February 28. [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]
A woman holds a picture of late Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during the ceremony. [Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]
His son, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, now serves as Iran’s supreme leader. [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]
People attend the mourning ceremony in Tehran. [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]
Government supporters attend the mourning ceremony in Tehran. [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]
People carry a banner with an image of late Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during the ceremony in Tehran. [Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]
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Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window on April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew's flyby of the Moon. [Handout/NASA/Getty Images via AFP]
The Orion spacecraft, crescent moon and a crescent Earth on April 6, 2026. [Handout/NASA via AFP]
Earth sets over the moon's curved limb in this photo captured by the Artemis II crew during their journey around the far side of the moon. [Handout/NASA/Getty Images via AFP]
The Artemis II astronauts wrapped up their lunar flyby as they continue their journey back to Earth. [Handout/NASA via AFP]
The Orion spacecraft and the moon backlit by the sun during a solar eclipse on April 6, 2026. [Handout/NASA via AFP]
The moon fully eclipsing the sun. [Handout/NASA/Getty Images via AFP]
The heavily cratered terrain of the eastern edge of the South Pole-Aitken basin of the moon, as seen from the Orion spacecraft on April 6, 2026. [Handout/NASA via AFP]
A close-up view of the Vavilov Crater on the rim of the older and larger Hertzsprung basin of the moon, as seen from the Orion spacecraft. [Handout/NASA via AFP]
The moon with the Orientale basin visible in the centre, with a black patch of ancient lava in the center that punched through the moon's crust in an eruption billions of years ago. [Handout/NASA via AFP]
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Rescuers gather at the site of an Israeli air strike in Beirut. [Hussein Malla/AP Photo]
Smoke rises following Israeli air strikes in Beirut. [Anwar Amro/AFP]
Firefighters at the site of an Israeli air strike that hit an apartment building in Beirut. [Hussein Malla/AP Photo]
The Israeli military described the bombardment as the largest coordinated strike of the current war. [Hussein Malla/AP Photo]
A man stands on a burned vehicle as rescuers work at the site of an Israeli strike in Beirut. [Mohamed Azakir/Reuters]
Lebanon’s health ministry said that dozens of people had been killed and hundreds of others wounded. [Yara Nardi/Reuters]
Several of the strikes on Beirut landed in busy commercial areas. [Mohamed Azakir/Reuters]
Lebanon’s National News Agency said at least five neighbourhoods in Beirut’s central and coastal districts were hit. [Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu]
Smoke rises as rescuers work at the site of an Israeli strike in Beirut. [Reuters]
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A view of Earth taken by Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman from one of the Orion spacecraft’s windows after the crew completed the translunar injection burn to send the craft towards the moon on April 2, 2026. [Handout/NASA via Reuters]
A view of the Orion capsule taken with a camera mounted on one of its solar array wings during a routine external inspection of the spacecraft on the second day of the Artemis II mission towards the Moon. [Handout/NASA via Reuters]
A view of the moon taken by one of the Artemis II's four crew members through the window of the Orion spacecraft on the third day of the NASA mission. [Handout/NASA via Reuters]
Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman peers out of one of the Orion spacecraft's main cabin windows for a look back at Earth. [Handout/NASA via Reuters]
The Artemis II mission left Earth on April 1, 2026, on a 10-day journey around the moon and back. [Handout/NASA via AP]
The crew is expected to swing around the far side of the moon early this coming week, a manoeuvre not tried in more than 50 years. [Handout/NASA via Reuters]
Overnight from Sunday into Monday US time, Orion is due to enter what NASA calls the “lunar sphere of influence” when the moon's gravity will have a stronger pull on the spacecraft than the Earth's. [Handout/NASA via Reuters]
Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch is on board the Orion with her fellow Americans Wiseman and pilot Victor Glover and Canadian Jeremy Hansen, also a mission specialist. [Handout/NASA via Reuters]
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Damaged buildings at the site of an Iranian missile attack in Tel Aviv. [Jack Guez/AFP]
Israeli emergency service personnel inspect a building damaged in an Iranian missile attack in Tel Aviv. [Jack Guez/AFP]
Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency medical service said, “Six people were lightly injured at four different sites.” [Jack Guez/AFP]
Police in Tel Aviv said they were dealing with “several impact sites of munitions”. [Jack Guez/AFP]
Emergency personnel at a site following an Iranian missile attack in Tel Aviv. [Ronen Zvulun/Reuters]
Police Superintendent Fadida Yaniv confirmed damage to central Tel Aviv on Tuesday was caused by an Iranian warhead with about 100kg (220 pounds) of explosives. [Jack Guez/AFP]
A woman stands inside a building damaged in an Iranian attack in Tel Aviv. [Jack Guez/AFP]
First responders combed through rubble after a missile struck a street in central Tel Aviv. [Ohad Zwigenberg/AP Photo]
Israeli emergency teams at the site of an Iranian missile attack in a residential area in Tel Aviv. [Abir Sultan/EPA]
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People stand near a building damaged following a night of Iranian strikes, in Dimona, southern Israel. [Ronen Zvulun/Reuters]
Buildings damaged by an Iranian missile strike in Arad, southern Israel. [Ohad Zwigenberg/AP Photo]
The Israeli Health Ministry said at least 180 people were wounded in Iranian missile attacks on the southern city of Dimona and nearby Arad. [Ohad Zwigenberg/AP Photo]
Israel’s military said it was not able to intercept missiles that hit Dimona and Arad. [Ohad Zwigenberg/AP Photo]
It was the first time Iranian missiles had penetrated Israel’s air defence systems in the area around the nuclear facility. [Abir Sultan/EPA]
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the Iranian strikes a “difficult” evening for Israel. [Ronen Zvulun/Reuters]
The International Atomic Energy Agency said it had received no indication of damage to the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center in Dimona. [Ronen Zvulun/Reuters]
People inspect the site of an Iranian missile strike in Dimona. [John Wessels/AFP]
A drone view shows the damage following a night of Iranian strikes in Dimona. [Roei Kastro/Reuters]
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Palestinian Muslims offer Eid al-Fitr prayers amid the rubble of destroyed buildings in Jabalia, Gaza Strip. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]
People gather in Khartoum, Sudan for Eid prayers. [Marwan Ali/AP Photo]
Two Yemeni children exchange greetings following the morning Eid prayers in Sanaa, Yemen. [Mohammed Huwais/AFP]
Large congregational prayers were held in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. [Hassan Ali Elmi/AFP]
A woman gets her hands decorated with henna on the eve of the Muslim festival in Karachi, Pakistan. [Rizwan Tabassum/AFP]
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visited Lakemba Mosque in Sydney, where he was briefly heckled by a small group of worshippers during Eid prayers over his stance on Israel. [Hollie Adams/Reuters]
Muslim devotees fill Istanbul's Blue Mosque for Eid al-Fitr morning prayers. [Yasin Akgul/AFP]
A drone view of Albanian Muslims attending Eid al-Fitr prayers at Skanderbeg Square, in the capital, Tirana, Albania. [Florion Goga/Reuters]
People try to catch free balloons distributed during an Eid al-Fitr event outside El Seddik Mosque in Cairo, Egypt. [Khaled el Fiqi/AP]
Muslim devotees raise their hands in prayer at the Muhammadiyah University compound in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. [Chaideer/AFP]
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A displaced boy who fled Israeli air raids with his family in Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburb, holds his cat at the Bir Hassan Technical Institute, which has been turned into a shelter, in Beirut. [Bilal Hussein/AP Photo]
A displaced man who fled Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon receives a haircut in the playground of a school turned into a shelter in Beirut. [Hussein Malla/AP Photo]
Children displaced by Israeli air raids play in the courtyard of a school used as a shelter in Beirut. [Hassan Ammar/AP Photo]
Displaced people settle in at the Bir Hassan Technical Institute in Beirut. [Bilal Hussein/AP Photo]
More than 800,000 people, almost 15 percent of Lebanon's population, have fled their homes. [Bilal Hussein/AP Photo]
A displaced woman carries mattresses at Saint Joseph Church, which has been turned into a shelter for displaced migrant workers, mostly from African nations, in Beirut. [Hussein Malla/AP Photo]
Only a fraction of the displaced, some 132,000 according to Lebanese authorities, are in collective shelters. [Hussein Malla/AP Photo]
Children of displaced migrant workers sit inside a room at Beirut's Saint Joseph Church, now a shelter for displaced migrants. [Hussein Malla/AP Photo]
A displaced child plays past tents set up inside Beirut's Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium, which has been turned into a shelter. [Hassan Ammar/AP Photo]
People walk past tents sheltering people displaced by Israeli air raids along the Beirut waterfront. [Hassan Ammar/AP Photo]
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Iranians cross into Turkiye at the Kapikoy border gate in the eastern Van province. [Dilara Senkaya/Reuters]
Iranian Leila, 45, waits to cross from Turkiye into Iran. After losing contact with her family in Shiraz, she decided she had to return home. [Dilara Senkaya/Reuters]
Mohammad Fauzi, 46, an Egyptian factory worker, crossed into Turkiye with no Turkish SIM card, no local currency and no knowledge of Turkish. He worked in Iran's marble and granite sector but said many factories had closed as the conflict escalated. [Dilara Senkaya/Reuters]
Hundreds have crossed the border in recent days, and there is now a steady flow in both directions. [Dilara Senkaya/Reuters]
Jalileh Jabari, 63, said she left Tehran because “bombs are falling” and the situation had become unbearable. “If things become good there, if Iran becomes good, I will come back.” [Dilara Senkaya/Reuters]
Ebrahim Eidi, 61, who arrived in Turkiye from Iran, said many Iranians still hoped for change but feared taking action themselves. “People are afraid to go to the streets.” [Dilara Senkaya/Reuters]
Near the Kapikoy border gate after arriving in Turkiye, Yasna, 63, says: “I came to see my daughter, I haven't seen her for six years.” She was reluctant to comment on the political situation in Iran. “I don't know what to say about the situation in Iran because we will be [going] back to Iran.” [Dilara Senkaya/Reuters]
Hamid Shirmohammadzadeh, 35, who arrived in Turkiye from Iran, sits in the lobby of a hotel in Turkiye's Van province. [Dilara Senkaya/Reuters]
Luggage belonging to people arriving in Turkiye from Iran at the Kapikoy border gate in Van. [Dilara Senkaya/Reuters]
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The US attack on Iran comes from a place of confidence. On paper, the world’s most powerful military would seem unbeatable. But war can be unpredictable, and weaker opponents often resort to unconventional tactics, or asymmetric warfare, with early anti-colonial conflicts showing how it can work.
In 1946, for example, France entered the First Indochina War confident of victory, ignoring Vietnam’s desire to rid itself of French colonial rule. But the communist-led Viet Minh waged an effective guerrilla war, culminating in a French defeat in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954, the loss partly blamed on French hubris.
In the Algerian War of Independence from 1954 to 1962, the French once again failed in the face of the hit-and-run tactics of guerrilla warfare. Algerian fighters, who relied on allies in densely populated urban neighbourhoods, in cities like Algiers, used sabotage and assassinations to great effect.
During the Vietnam War, the Viet Cong preferred dense jungle cover to limit the use of US airpower. They laid booby traps, sprung ambushes and dug hidden tunnels. The Viet Cong also used propaganda tactics to test the US public’s resolve to endure the deaths of American soldiers. A weaker force, in effect, won in 1975 by holding out longer.
In Afghanistan, starting in 2001, the US military again faced a weaker enemy. But the Taliban leveraged improvised explosive devices, suicide bombings, hit-and-run tactics and the killing of local officials to outlast the Americans, who left in 2021.
Iraq was no better. After the US’s conventional invasion toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, the conflict spiralled into one of IED attacks on convoys, suicide bombings, assassinations and kidnappings.
Today, Ukraine has redefined asymmetric warfare, keeping the much larger Russian invasion force at bay since 2022, in part through the use of inexpensive consumer drones.
In the Middle East, Iran has asserted itself and kept the much more powerful US military and its allies off balance with proxies in Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen. The Houthis in Yemen, for example, have fired missiles and drones into Saudi Arabia, targeting the kingdom’s electricity infrastructure.
Now, as the US wages war with Israel’s help, Iran fires its cheap but effective Shahed-136 kamikaze drones at US military bases in the Middle East and at US allies in the Gulf region. The worry, of course, is that this war could be dragged out as a weaker opponent refuses to give in to a stronger aggressor.
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