He indicated that the decision to move forward with the attack was made only after negotiations between the US and Iran collapsed.

Tehran’s leaders crafted a plan ahead of the current conflict that would escalate the fight across the region ...

Hizbullah has already joined one war against Israel. In October 2023 it began firing on the country the day after Hamas launched its surprise attacks from Gaza. That time it took nearly a year for the ...

For the people behind it, “Operation Epic Fury” is a moment of historic importance. “People do not understand how big this is,” says one Israeli official. “The Middle East will be completely changed ...

Israeli airstrikes are pounding the capitals of Iran and Lebanon as the U.S. apparently struck an Iranian drone carrier at ...

The breadth and depth of this consensus are nearly total. Even many Lebanese Shiites who previously had maintained some ...

The BBC sees troops and tanks massing near the border, as speculation mounts that Israel is planning a full-scale ground invasion to fight Hezbollah.

The military campaign that Israel and the United States launched last Saturday against Iran may be a joint operation. But the two countries’ experiences of the war—and its leaders’ strategic ...

It is a special kind of folly to make long-term predictions amid the fog of war. Nobody knows how Operation Epic Fury will ...

Ray Takeyh is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of “The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty.” ...

Israel unleashed a wave of airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs and expanded its ground presence inside Lebanon, stepping up a campaign against the Iran-aligned militant group Hezbollah.

Tehran’s Shi’ite proxies in Iraq have so far launched few attacks during the U.S.-Israel assault on Iran. Insiders tell ...