Niger has been fighting a militant Islamist insurgency for a decade and in January suspected jihadists attacked the same airport.

While the human cost is clear, the Iranian regime has not just survived the war, it has been empowered.

A refinery and a shopping centre burned after almost 200 Ukrainian drones struck an area to the south-east of the Russian capital.

Iran has come out of the war's first chapter stronger than many expected, but its next challenge may be harder, the BBC Persian Service's Amir Azimi writes.