Sri Lanka on Wednesday said it had recovered over 80 bodies of Iranian sailors killed after a US submarine attack sank the Iranian frigate - IRIS Dena - off Galle, the island's southern coastal town.

The US sinking of an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka's coast, with more than 100 people reportedly missing or dead, has brought the Middle East conflict to the Indian Ocean, triggering international reactions and growing concern over the wider spillover of the joint US-Israeli military operation against Iran,

A refugee who fled Iran in 1989 has praised the killing of its supreme leader, but fears the impact of continued war on her "beloved country". Nashmin Riazi, who now lives in Worcester, said: "The country will be destroyed,

As the war in Iran spills out across the Middle East, Americans find themselves stranded abroad and embroiled in political conflict at home.