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Iran's initial reaction suggested that the sides had once again averted an uncontrolled war, even if the prospect looms larger than ever. Israel's retaliatory attack on Iran on Saturday morning [...]

Oct. 7, 2023, marked the worst tragedy for the state of Israel and the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Some 1,200 people were murdered in Israel, and approximately 250 people [...]

Leaders in Tehran suggested it would be the Lebanese militia that would strike back at Israel after the killing of Hassan Nasrallah and bombings in Beirut. In the turbulent landscape [...]

Military defeats matter. Israel's inexcusable complacency on Oct. 7, 2023, allowed Hamas, a terrorist force with a small fraction of the military strength of the Israel Defense Forces, to kill [...]

Iran says Israel wants to trap it into a direct conflict by bombing Hezbollah, even as a new Iranian president tries outreach to the West. Israel's war against Hezbollah in [...]

As rockets and missiles streaked across Lebanese and Israeli skies on Sunday, the moment people across the region lived in fear of seemed as if it might have arrived: all-out [...]

Byline: Shira Rubin TEL AVIV - As Israel braces for an attack from Iran - fueling fighter jets, positioning air defense batteries and coordinating with Washington on the placement of [...]

Trying to head off a Middle East war, several countries are pressing Iran to temper its retaliation for the assassination of a Hamas leader in Tehran. Arab and Western countries, [...]

The sudden death of President Ebrahim Raisi is not expected to affect the actions of groups like Hezbollah and the Houthis, which are vital to Iran's power. While uncertainty surrounds [...]

Israel hit a strategic city with carefully measured force, but made the point that it could strike at a center of Iran's nuclear program. For more than a decade, Israel [...]

Tehran provides arms and support to an array of militant groups across the Mideast, but it does not call all the shots, experts say. Iran projects its military power through [...]

The Israeli defense minister, Benny Gantz, said Israel was working with other countries in the Middle East to combat Iranian military threats. JERUSALEM -- The Israeli government confirmed on Monday [...]

Byline: Loveday Morris BERLIN - European countries on Tuesday triggered a dispute mechanism in their nuclear deal with Iran, a move that could lead to the return of United Nations [...]

Byline: Erin Cunningham and Rick Noack ISTANBUL - The assault on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia this weekend has highlighted what analysts say is a rapidly evolving threat from Iranian-made [...]

Byline: James McAuley, Liz Sly and Karen DeYoung JERUSALEM - Israel sought Thursday to justify a recent wave of strikes on Iranian-linked targets in three countries by pointing to an [...]

An APS energy strategist says: 'Iran's Shi'ite theocracy of Iran, blessing itself with an obsolete ideology for the world called Safawism, has received an all caps-written Donald Trump tweet never [...]

Amid heightened discussions about a new era of dealings between the US and Iran, things are getting heated as regional partners react. So perhaps it shouldn't come as much of [...]

Byline: Mike Wereschagin A deal with Iran to stop the Islamic Republic's nuclear program might avert a Middle East arms race, but it could put the United States in the [...]

After almost two years of negotiations, on 14 July 2015, the E3/EU+3 (China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States) and Iran reached an agreement regarding Iran's [...]

The consensus among Western analysts is that a military attack against Iran would at best delay Iran's nuclear development, not stop it. This is because Iran's nuclear facilities are believed [...]

NPR's ''Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!'' is heard weekends on public radio stations across the country. (npr.org/waitwait) 1. Despite initial denials from the Defense Department, Iran seems to have [...]

The Obama administration is accelerating the deployment of new defenses against possible Iranian missile attacks in the Persian Gulf, placing special ships off the Iranian coast and antimissile systems in [...]

Byline: Barbara Slavin WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is using the nuclear standoff with Iran to target the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, accused by the United States of backing extremists in [...]

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Monday that Iran was 'acting in a very negative way' in the Middle East and that the United States was building up its forces […]

After months of missed deadlines, threats and counterproposals in the effort to rein in Iran's nuclear ambitions, the fragile coalition of six world powers that has been facing down Tehran […]