By Jon Gambrell DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Semiofficial news agencies in Iran published a chart Thursday suggesting the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard put sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz during the war, in a message that may be intended
By Jon Gambrell DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Semiofficial news agencies in Iran published a chart Thursday suggesting the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard put sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz during the war, in a message that may be intended to pressure the U.S. as uncertainty hangs over a days-old two-week ceasefire and
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By Freddie Clayton Iran said Sunday it is ready to face U.S. troops on the ground, accusing Washington of secretly planning an assault while seeking negotiations to end the war. “The enemy, openly, sends messages of negotiation and dialogue, but secretly is planning a ground attack,” said Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, according to state media outlet IRNA and state-affiliated
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By Alexander Smith, Richard Engel and Steve Kopack The molten fireballs and belching smoke over the Middle East early Thursday signaled a dramatic escalation in the Iran war — and its threat to the global economy. Israel launched a widespread strike on Iran’s world-largest gas field, South Pars, triggering retaliation from Tehran against key energy sites across the Gulf Arab states. Like the blockaded Strait of
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By Aamer Madhani, Julia Frankel, Michael Biesecker And Eric Tucker Outdated intelligence likely led to the United States carrying out a deadly missile strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed over 165 people, many of them children, in the opening hours of the conflict, according to a U.S. official and a second person briefed on findings
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By Dan De Luce, Daniel Arkin, Gordon Lubold, Monica Alba and Courtney Kube WASHINGTON – U.S. officials say relentless American and Israeli aerial attacks have crippled Iran’s air defenses, navy and missile arsenal. But the regime in Tehran has so far held on to power, and it effectively shut down a crucial choke point for the world’s oil supplies. As the
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By Molly Hunter, Tavleen Tarrant, Matthew Mulligan, Chantal Da Silva and Shira Pinson Evidence continues to mount that the U.S. was responsible for the deadly school strike in southern Iran that killed scores of children as images taken near the school have emerged showing fragments of American-made missiles. The missile fragments purported by Iranian state media to have struck the school bear the markings
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BY Sam Metz and Jalal Bwaitel Cheers erupted among Palestinians on Monday as Israel released nearly 2,000 prisoners under a Gaza ceasefire agreement that saw them exchanged for Israeli hostages freed by Hamas. Large crowds greeted the freed prisoners in Beitunia in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and in Khan Younis in Gaza, flashing V-for-victory signs as they descended
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Israel launched a series of airstrikes against Iran early Friday morning local time, targeting locations it said were related to Iran’s nuclear program, sparking market fears of a wider conflict. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, chief of the Iranian Armed Forces and the country’s most senior military official, was killed during the strikes, alongside the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,
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By Alexander Smith Pope Leo XIV has inherited a raging battle for not only the soul of the Catholic Church, but also its place in the geopolitical world. The new pope will have to decide whether his global pulpit will continue Pope Francis’ broadly progressive legacy, or revert to a more conservative approach. The first American pontiff will grapple with the spiritual decline
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By David Brennan One hundred thirty three cardinals will gather again on Thursday under the vaulted ceilings of the Sistine Chapel, which are decorated with Michelangelo’s frescoes, including “The Creation of Adam,” where they’ll cast their second set of ballots to make one among them the next leader of the Catholic Church’s more than 1
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