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Attacks on education, pupils and staff around the world up by 40%, says study
BySarah Johnson June 15, 2026

Cases reported in 83 countries, with at least 10,600 students and staff killed, injured, abducted or arrested, GCPEA saysAttacks on education globally have surged by 40% with more than 8,556 recorded incidents and 10,600 students and staff killed, inju…

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Trump’s failure to maintain ceasefires is part of the new world disorder – and ordinary people pay the price | Simon Tisdall
BySimon Tisdall June 7, 2026

The US president brags about ending wars but look at Ukraine, Gaza, Iran and Lebanon to see what his casual disregard for diplomacy and obsession with instant results have achievedThere are visionary statesmen and high-minded negotiators, pragmatic med…

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When will the Iran war end? The US can’t even decide when it began | Lawrence Douglas
ByLawrence Douglas May 14, 2026

A state department document seeks to justify the war as part of a years-long conflictIs the war in Iran over? Within hours of secretary of state Marco Rubio’s assurance that “the operation is over” last week, Donald Trump used social media to declare t…

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Donald Trump says ‘a whole civilisation will die’ if Iran ignores demands
ByDan Sabbagh in Jerusalem April 7, 2026April 7, 2026

Attacks on Iran increase and Israel tells Iranians to avoid train travel as deadline to reopen strait of Hormuz loomsMiddle East crisis – live updatesDonald Trump has warned that Iran’s “whole civilisation will die tonight” if Tehran did not comply wit…

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Is the US committing war crimes by targeting Iran’s civilian infrastructure?
ByPeter Beaumont, Senior international correspondent April 3, 2026

International law experts ‘seriously concerned’ about ‘strikes on schools, health centres and homes’ in contravention of Geneva conventionsDonald Trump, other senior US officials and their cheerleaders appear to be embracing attacks – and threats of at…

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Trump’s Iran war has no ethical or legal grounds | Letters
ByGuardian staff March 17, 2026

At least in Iraq the Americans had the ‘Pottery Barn rule’: you break it, you own it, writes Prof James Pattison. Plus, letters by Ivette Félix Padilla, Chris Lake and Diana FrancisIn justifying the joint United States-Israel airstrikes on Iran, US pol…

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The Guardian view on the Iran war and international law: it’s worse than a mistake; it’s a crime | Editorial
ByEditorial March 13, 2026

Double standards in Europe and elsewhere are laid bare by the muted response to US and Israeli aggression and the killing of civiliansWhen Russia launched its full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the international condemnation from Europe and elsewh…

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Minab school bombing: what evidence is there that the US was responsible?
ByTess McClure March 10, 2026March 10, 2026

Trump has blamed Iran for the mass killing at Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school but geolocation, videos, satellite imagery and fragments apparently recovered from the site indicate otherwiseThe bombing of a primary school in Minab on 28 February killed …

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Trump’s war on Iran and regime change | Brief letters
ByGuardian staff March 2, 2026

US policy | From defence to prevention | International law | Nuclear capabilityAs civilian casualties pile up under rubble – 165 people including little girls were blown to bits in a school in Tehran (Report, 1 March) – the world faces perhaps its grea…

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What is the legality of the US and Israeli attacks on Iran?
ByHaroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent March 2, 2026

Legal experts give their views on the lawfulness of the countries’ actions, including the UK’s ‘defensive’ operationUS-Israel war on Iran – live updatesWhat we know so far on day three of the Iran warThe US and Israeli attacks on Iran have lit the touc…

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