A KEEN Brit angler has turned traitor to fight for Russia in Ukraine. Bradley Townsend was groomed online into joining Vladimir Putin’s troops by fellow mercenaries Aiden Minnis and Ben Stimson. Townsend, who has no military experience and spent his days fishing for carp, rang his worried family earlier this week to say he was...

DONALD Trump is pumping his warships full of "the best weapons ever made" ready to blitz Iran if peace talks fall through, claiming the ruthless regime "can't be trusted". The US president said "we'll know soon" if a long-term deal can be struck at the crunch talks, after he declared a two-week pause in the...

IRAN has threatened its "fragile truce" with the US and Israel by shutting the Strait of Hormuz just hours into a two-week ceasefire agreement. And the White House said Iran's original 10-point plan had been "thrown in the garbage" by Donald Trump, adding that the "workable basis" for a long-term peace deal was different to...

ISRAELI air strikes yesterday killed Iran’s spy chief Majid Khademi — in another major blow to the regime. The spook entered the role several months ago, following the killing of his predecessor, Mohammad Kazemi, by Israel during June’s 12-day war. A separate strike in Tehran yesterday killed another senior Iranian henchman, Yazdan Mir — known...