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Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi called the American operation an “outrageous, grave and unprecedented violation” of the United Nations Charter and international law.
As the world reacted to news of U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, international officials largely responded with alarm and calls for restraint.
NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Nicole Grajewski of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about the role Russia and China could play in de-escalating the Iran-Israel conflict.
Russia is dealing with its own war in Ukraine, which complicates any potential involvement in the Middle East conflict the U.S. entered June 21.
Countries across the Middle East are concerned about further escalation after the U.S. struck Iran, fearing retaliation could draw in Gulf Arab states.
President Trump ordered the U.S. military to bomb three Iranian sites he said were crucial to that nation’s nuclear ambitions.
Commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrsky disputed Russian claims that Ukraine had been pushed out of Kursk.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will speak to reporters the morning after President Trump announced the U.S. had attacked three nuclear facilities in Iran, aiding Israel in its conflict with the country.
US forces struck Iran’s three main nuclear sites, President Donald Trump said late on Saturday, and he warned Tehran it would face more attacks if it did not agree to peace.
The U.S. has completed attacks on three nuclear sites in Iran, President Trump wrote on Truth Social on Saturday.
NPR’s Andrew Limbong speaks with journalist Tariro Mzezewa about the podcast, Peak Travel, that explores how tourism affects local communities.
NPR’s Andrew Limbong speaks with former Iran nuclear negotiator Seyed Hossein Mousavian about the possibility of diplomacy between Israel and Iran, as fighting between the two countries escalates.
It’s now largely forgotten that in the early 1900s, nearly a third of the Arabian Peninsula was under British India.
Terry Harper has been tuning pianos in the iconic venue since he was a teen – a family legacy started by his dad.
Russian minister Maxim Reshetnikov has warned that the country’s economy was teetering “on the brink of recession”.
He tells the BBC the Trump administration was trying to suppress Pro-Palestinian voices.
Israel said on Saturday that an Iranian plot to attack Israeli citizens in Cyprus had been foiled as the war between the two arch-rivals raged for a ninth day.
After shooting two local politicians, Vance Boelter texted his wife “prepare for war”, say investigators.
At least eight people were killed on Saturday when a hot air balloon with 21 passengers caught fire in southern Brazil, said the governor of Santa Catarina state, where the incident occurred.
Israel has begun allowing food into Gaza. Most of the supplies go to GHF, which operates food distribution points. A trickle of aid goes to the U.N. and humanitarian groups. Both systems are mired in chaos.
A hot-air balloon caught fire and tumbled from the sky in Brazil’s southern state of Santa Catarina, killing eight people, firefighters said. Thirteen people survived and were taken to hospitals.