Middle East

Wave of Israeli strikes reported in Tabriz in northern Iran, including near refinery

Two people were also killed in an Israeli attack on a missile site in Assadabad in western Iran.

 A military aircraft flies in the sky following a barrage of missiles launched from Iran, as seen over Tubas, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, June 14, 2025.

The road to Tehran has been paved: IDF secures air route for stronger strikes on Iran

 IAF warplanes stand on the tarmac before Israel's counterstrike on Yemen on May 5, 2025.

Two Iranian military deputy commanders killed in IDF strikes

 Smoke rises from a damaged building in the aftermath of Israeli strikes, in Tehran, Iran, June 13, 2025

Limited damage at Iran's Fordow nuclear site, Iranian official says

A handout satellite image shows a general view of the Natanz nuclear facility after a fire, in Natanz, Iran July 8, 2020

Israel 'fighting for its life,' ambassador tells US viewers in coast-to-coast media blitz

Appearing first on Fox News’s Special Report, Leiter declared that Israel was “fighting for its life” and had decided to “cut off the head of the snake” rather than merely parry Iran’s proxies.

 Israel’s new ambassador to Washington, Dr. Yechiel Leiter, on PBS News

Tehran under fire: IDF continues strikes in Iran, focusing on the capital – what was hit?

Iranian media said the country’s air-defense batteries were activated repeatedly during the night in an effort to intercept Israeli aircraft.

 Rescuers work at the site of a damaged building, in the aftermath of Israeli strikes, in Tehran, Iran, June 13, 2025.

US sent 300 Hellfires to Israel before Iran raid, helped intercept Tehran’s missiles - report

Because the missiles were part of a US $7.4 billion arms package approved by Congress in February, the transfer required no new notification. 

The AGM-114 Hellfire, an American missile developed for anti-armor use

Iran says nuclear talks with US 'meaningless' after Israel attack

Esmaeil Baghaei said Israel "succeeded in influencing" the diplomatic process and the Israeli attack would not have happened without Washington's permission.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuon a conceptual image of war between Israel and Iran using chess pieces and national flags. (Illsutrative)

Fresh round of strikes reported in Tehran, Mehrabad Airport hit

Two projectiles reportedly struck the airport.

 Israeli strikes in western Tehran on Saturday, June 14, 2025.

At UN, Iran accuses US of being complicit in Israeli strikes

Israel's UN Ambassador Danny Danon said Iran had been "preparing for war" and Israel's strikes were "an act of national preservation."

Iran's Ambassador and Permanent Representative Amir Saeid Iravani delivers his remarks after attending a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, following Israel’s attack on Iran, at U.N. headquarters in New York City, U.S., June 13, 2025

Arab media reactions vary widely following Israeli strikes on Iran

Many Arab outlets dismissed Israel’s posture of operational independence in the strikes on Iran, with Al Jazeera Arabic describing Israel as the West’s ‘crazy friend'

Israeli Air Force fighter jets seen ahead of Operation Rising Lion in Iran, June 13, 2025

Iran's above-ground enrichment plant at Natanz destroyed, IAEA chief says

UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi told the Security Council on Friday that Israel had destroyed Iran's Natanz nuclear site.

 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi speaks to the media, in Tehran, Iran, April 17, 2025.

After Natanz: Why the IDF won’t strike Iran’s live reactor at Bushehr

A strike on a live nuclear reactor could unleash radioactive leakage capable of endangering civilian populations hundreds of kilometers away, depending on the severity of the breach.

 Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian visits IRGC Navy equipment in Bushehr, Iran, February 13, 2025.

IDF strikes Isfahan nuclear hub, hits more than 200 targets in Iran

The IDF was also reportedly targeting Iran's Fordow nuclear facility, after previously dismantling the Natanz site.

Military personnel stand guard at a nuclear facility in the Zardanjan area of Isfahan, Iran, April 19, 2024, in this screengrab taken from video.