Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has steered his country along two pillars of foreign policy throughout his political career.
Israel stepped up airstrikes on Iranian missile launchers and factories, and Iran retaliated against Israel and across the Gulf region, disrupting energy supplies and travel.
Many in the Iranian American diaspora spent the weekend glued to their TVs, watching news of U.S. and Israeli bombs falling on Iran, some hoping for a brighter future for their homeland but terrified relatives would suffer harm.
The Trump administration took more than 48 hours to make any live, public communication with the American people about why it had decided to go to war with Iran.
Democrats stay mostly united against President Donald Trump, but the strikes on Iran are starting to reveal some splits in the party.
President Donald Trump is pushing back on criticism that he hasn’t done enough to explain why it was necessary to start a war with Iran now or to articulate his vision for an endgame to the escalating conflict.
President Donald Trump says he was not pleased with the way that negotiations with Iran were proceeding.
Iran’s leaders are scrambling to replace Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who ruled the country for 37 years before he was killed in the surprise U.S. and Israeli bombardment.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has spoken to widening concerns the U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran could spiral into a protracted regional conflict by declaring: “This is not Iraq.
As Israel unleashed a sweeping military response to the brutal assault by Hamas on October 7, 2023, it aimed punch after punch at Iran, the militant group’s longtime sponsor, and its proxies.
Three American service members have been killed and five others seriously wounded during the U.S. military’s attacks on Iran.
The president of Iran’s soccer federation says he does not know if the national team can play World Cup matches in the United States following the surprise U.S. and Israeli bombardment of his country.
Trump administration officials told congressional staff in private briefings Sunday that U.S. intelligence did not suggest an imminent threat from Iran or that it was preparing to launch a preemptive strike against the U.S. That's according to two people familiar with the briefings who insisted on anonymity to discuss details that have not been made public.
Reports of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s death have sparked questions about Iran's future leadership and potential regime change. While some view this as a historic moment with the possibility of reform, experts like Dr. Kelsey P. Norman warn of potential chaos and instability in the short to medium term. Former Tehran resident Arshia Kian expresses concern over a possible 'nightmare scenario' where power shifts without meaningful change, and he emphasizes the uncertainty and fear that persist in Iran. The situation remains fluid, with the timeline for any political transition unpredictable.
Authorities say at least 22 people were killed and more than 120 wounded in clashes with police on Sunday after protesters tried to storm the U.S. Consulate in the Pakistani port city of Karachi and U.N. offices in the north of the country.
Israel launched strikes on Iran while Tehran responded by firing drones and missiles at Jerusalem and U.S. military installations.
Three close allies of the United States say they are ready to join forces to defend their interests in the Middle East and stop Iran’s retaliatory strikes following the killing of its supreme leader.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who assembled theocratic power in Iran over the decades as its supreme leader and sought to turn it into a regional powerhouse, has been killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes.
Saturday’s military operation against Iran shows the dramatic evolution in risk tolerance that President Donald Trump has made in a matter of months.
Israel has killed multiple senior officials with Iran's armed proxies like Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon since the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Some Iranian Americans in the Houston area are celebrating reports of U.S. military action in Iran, saying it could mark the first real opportunity in decades to one day return to their home country. At the Motahari family’s home in Katy on Saturday, the news spread quickly through social media and Iranian news accounts on Instagram: reports of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s killing following U.S. and Israeli military action against the regime. The reaction inside the house was immediate — tears, cheers, and emotional embraces.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed in a major attack on Iran launched by Israel and the United States, throwing the future of the Islamic Republic into doubt and raising the risk of regional instability.
Iran has announced the temporary closure of the Strait of Hormuz for live fire military drills.
Iran marks the 47th anniversary of its 1979 Islamic Revolution as leaders face pressure from the U.S. and anger at home.
Iran has warned Donald Trump not to take any action against the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, days after the U.S. president called for an end to Khamenei’s near 40-year reign.
Hackers have disrupted Iranian state TV to air footage supporting the exiled crown prince.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has criticized U.S. President Donald Trump for supporting Iranian protesters.
A Iran returns to an uneasy calm after protests led to a violent crackdown, a senior cleric is calling for the death penalty for detained demonstrators.
President Donald Trump has arrived at a delicate moment as he weighs whether to order a U.S. military response against the Iranian government over its crackdown on protests.
President Donald Trump says Iran reached out to the U.S. and proposed negotiations after he threatened action in response to a crackdown on protesters in the Middle Eastern country.
Iran’s government has cut off the country from the internet and international telephone calls.
Iran said 120 Iranians detained in the United States for illegally entering the country will be returned to Iran in the coming days.
The U.N. Security Council on has rejected a last-ditch effort to delay reimposing sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian took the stage at the U_N_ to blast Israeli and U_S_ attacks in June as inflicting “a grievous blow upon international trust and the very prospect of peace in the region.”.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has rejected direct negotiations with the United States over his country’s nuclear program.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee warns that Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi faces threats to her life from Iranian security services.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has made his first public appearance since the 12-day war between Israel and Iran began, attending a mourning ceremony on the eve of Ashoura.
It’s been a week since the U.S. pressed Israel and Iran into a truce, ending a bloody 12-day conflict that had set the Middle East and the world on edge.
Hundreds of thousands of mourners gathered in Tehran for the funeral of top Iranian commanders and scientists killed in a 12-day war with Israel.
Democratic efforts in the Senate to prevent President Donald Trump from further escalating with Iran have fallen short.
President Donald Trump is scoffing at Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s heated warning to the U.S. not to launch future strikes on Iran and the Iranian supreme leader's assertion that Tehran “won the war” with Israel.
The bombing has quieted in Iran’s 12-day conflict with Israel, but the battle over the future of Tehran is likely to soon begin.
In a 48-hour whirlwind, President Donald Trump went from elated to indignant to triumphant as the fragile Israel-Iran ceasefire agreement came together, teetered toward collapse and ultimately coalesced.
For more than a week, President Donald Trump kept the world wondering whether he would join Israel’s attacks on Iran in an attempt to decapitate the country’s nuclear program.
President Donald Trump has expressed certainty that his big gamble to directly assist the Israelis delivered a knockout blow to Iran’s nuclear program — even as many of his supporters and detractors are warning that U.S. military action could lead the United States into an expansive regional conflict.
President Donald Trump says the U.S. military struck three sites in Iran, inserting itself into Israel’s effort to decapitate the country’s nuclear program in a risky gambit to weaken a longtime foe amid Tehran’s threat of reprisals that could spark a wider regional conflict.
Israel and Iran have struck at one another again a week into their war as President Donald Trump weighs U.S. involvement.
President Donald Trump says he doesn’t want to carry out a U.S. strike on Iran but suggested he stands ready to act if it’s necessary to extinguish Iran’s nuclear program.
Israel launched an expanded assault on Iran on Sunday while Tehran unleashed a fresh barrage of missiles.
President Donald Trump and other top American officials are urging Iran to forgo retaliation and engage in direct talks following the U.S. attack on three key Iranian nuclear sites.
Iranian state television has confirmed that Gen. Hossein Salami, the head of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, was killed in Israel’s strikes Friday morning.
Iran’s supreme leader has criticized an initial proposal from the United States in negotiations over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
Iran and the United States will hold talks Friday in Rome, their fifth round of negotiations over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
Iran and the United States will hold a fifth round of talks in Rome on Friday over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
Iran and the United States have held a fourth round of talks over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
Ahead of his second go-around in the White House, President Donald Trump spoke with certainty about ending Russia’s war in Ukraine in the first 24 hours of his new administration and finding lasting peace in the devastating 18-month conflict in Gaza.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Iran must give up all nuclear enrichment if it wants to make a deal during talks with the Trump administration and head off the threat of armed conflict.
Iran and the United States will hold talks Saturday in Oman, their third round of negotiations over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
Iran and the United States will hold more negotiations next week over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
President Donald Trump is betting that a beleaguered Iran is so vulnerable following a tumultuous 18 months in the Middle East that it might finally be ready to abandon its nuclear program.
Iran and the United States will meet in Oman for the first talks in President Donald Trump’s second term over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
Representatives of China, Russia and Iran have called for an end to U.S. sanctions on Iran over its rapidly advancing nuclear program and a restart to multinational talks on the issue.
An Emirati diplomat earlier identified by Tehran as carrying a letter from U.S. President Donald Trump seeking to jump-start talks over Iran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program has met with Iran’s foreign minister.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says he rejects a U.S. push for talks between the two countries because they would be aimed at imposing restrictions on Iranian missile range and its regional influence.
President Donald Trump says he sent a letter to Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a development that was not immediately confirmed by the supreme leader.
An Iranian official who was key to the country's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers has reportedly tendered his resignation from the government of reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian.
Tens of thousands of Iranians are marking the anniversary of the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Hamas has named the next three Israeli hostages it plans to release as part of the ceasefire deal.
Iran’s supreme leader says that negotiations with America “are not intelligent, wise or honorable” after President Donald Trump floated nuclear talks with Tehran.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a deal to return hostages held in the Gaza Strip has been reached.
A prominent Lebanese politician has met with the insurgent who led the overthrow of Syrian leader Bashar Assad, and both expressed hope Sunday for a new era in relations between their countries.
Israeli strikes killed at least 11 people across southern Lebanon, including a mother, father and their three kids in a home.
Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, asked Iran to help secure a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hezbollah.
An attack on a central Israeli town has injured 11 as Iran’s supreme leader vowed a punishing response to Israel’s attack last week.
Iran’s supreme leader has threatened Israel and the U.S. with “a crushing response” over attacks on Iran and its allies.
Israeli lawmakers have passed two laws that could threaten the work of the main United Nations agency providing aid to people in Gaza by barring it from operating on Israeli soil.
Iran’s supreme leader has praised the country’s recent missile strike on Israel and said it is ready to do it again if necessary.
Iran’s new president is signaling to world leaders that he wants to open what he's calling a “constructive” chapter in his country’s international relations.
French authorities have handed Telegram CEO Pavel Durov preliminary charges for allowing alleged criminal activity on his messaging app and barred him from leaving France pending further investigation.
Iran’s supreme leader has opened the door to renewed negotiations with the United States over his country’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is calling for “all parties” in the Middle East to avoid escalatory actions that could plunge the region into further conflict.
Hezbollah’s leader warned that the militant group's conflict with Israel has entered a “new phase.”.
Iran has sworn in the country's new president, a reformist politician and heart surgeon who pledged to keep trying to remove economic sanctions imposed by the West over Tehran’s controversial nuclear program.