Iran

Israel has launched a strike against Iran, a U.S. official tells NPR. Taylor Swift's highly anticipated "Tortured Poets Department" is here.

An unclaimed aerial attack in central Iran on Friday comes fresh on the heels of tit-for-tat Iranian and Israeli strikes earlier this month, ...

Iran deployed air defence batteries to intercept three drones, but downplayed the incident.

No damage was reported to Isfahan province's nuclear sites. The strike was intended to signal that Israel has the ability to strike inside Iran, an official ...

Iran has no plan for immediate retaliation against Israel, a senior Iranian official said Friday, as officials in Jerusalem indicated that an alleged drone ...

While risk of immediate all-out war has been averted, the danger for Middle East has far from passed.

The scope of Israel's military response to Iran's first-ever direct attack on the country remains murky. Israeli officials have yet to publicly acknowledge ...

Iranian media on Friday reported explosions in Isfahan city, amid steadily increasing tensions with Israel.

Iranian news has not reported any such strike and concluded the sounds reported were the interception of one or more drones. Israel's military has not ...

Oil and gold prices have eased after Iranian authorities appeared to downplay reports of an attack from Israel. Brent crude, the international benchmark, ...

A senior U.S. military official confirmed to NPR that the Israeli military had conducted missile strikes against Iran. But little else is known about the extent ...

Separately, Syria's Sana state news agency reported that Israeli missiles had targeted air defence positions in its southern region, citing a military source.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has repeated calls for de-escalation in the Middle East, after an apparent Israeli strike on Iran · Speaking from a G7 ...

Tit-for-tat attacks have breached taboo of direct strikes on each other's territory but Tehran has no 'immediate' plans to retaliate.

Tensions have soared in the Middle East more than six months into Israel's war on Gaza.

Response raises hopes that Tehran may have shelved reprisal threats and that escalation can be avoided.

The city and its region are home to drone and ballistic missile factories. Relatively nearby is the Natanz nuclear facility, the most important centre for ...

Since Iran launched a barrage of missiles and drones at Israel last week, Benjamin Netanyahu has faced the highest-stakes decision of his career: how to ...

The unprecedented Iranian attack on Israel raises concerns of a wider Middle East conflict. A view of an ...

Israel's latest missile strike on Iran may be more a face-saving exercise aimed at satisfying members of its coalition government than a true escalation of ...

Hours before Israel launched a drone strike against Iran on Thursday night, Israeli officials gave a heads up to their US counterparts in Washington: an ...

After decades of rivalry, the rival Middle East powers have both miscalculated, writes Jeremy Bowen.

Israel struck the Iranian Embassy in Syria, killing several top Iranian military officials. Then last weekend Iran sent hundreds of drones and missiles toward ...

Both Tel Aviv and Tehran downplayed Israel's predawn aerial strike inside Iran on Friday, suggesting neither side wants to see the situation escalate into a ...

American officials speak of a missile strike, but Iranian officials say the attacks, in the central province of Isfahan and in northwest Tabriz, were caused by ...

Biden calls for 'de-escalation' in Iran-Israel showdown while hurling money at the most unrestrained actor in equation.

Iranian news has not reported any such strike. Israel's military has not responded to NPR's requests for comment.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's war Cabinet had initially approved plans for a strike on Monday night, but held back at the last-minute.

While much of the discussion of the Iran-Israel conflict has been focused on proxy ground attacks, clandestine operations, and cyberwarfare, April 14 marks ...

The Iranian foreign minister, Hossein Amir-abdollahian, said on Friday that Iran will respond at an immediate and “maximum level” if Israel acts against its ...

Investors seem to believe that Israel's limited retaliatory strike has provided Iran with an off ramp to refrain from counterattacking.

Skirmishes between the pair have until now been muted, but last week's tit-for-tat attack on Isfahan shows how the Gaza conflict is fuelling global ...

Iranians walk past a mural showing the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, right, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, as they hold Iranian ...

The best opportunity to backstop Israel's campaign would be through the joint Kenya-US anti-terrorism Camp Simba near Manda Bay in Lamu.