Iran’s retaliation following U.S. and Israeli strikes has seen missiles and drones hammer Gulf states and U.S. bases across the region, turning once-quiet skies over cities like Dubai, Doha and Manama into battle zones.
As Iran launches retaliatory strikes on U.S. military assets in the Middle East, how do Gulf nations respond? Leila Fadel speaks with Yasmine Farouk of the International Crisis Group.
Hunkered down at his luxury Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, US President Donald Trump kept an unusually low profile after announcing the start of huge military strikes on Iran.
Israeli forces launched strikes on Lebanon including the capital Beirut, the military said, after Tehran-backed militant group Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel in retaliation for the killing of Iran’s supreme leader.
The high prices came as U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran and retaliatory strikes against Israel and U.S. military installations around the Gulf sent disruptions through the global energy supply chain.
In many ways, the conflict between Iran and the U.S. and Israel has been decades in the making. Ramtin Arablouei, host of NPR’s podcast “Throughline,” explains how.
Seth Jones of the center for Strategic and International Studies talks about the U.S military’s capacity to carry out extended strikes in Iran, and Iran’s ability to retaliate.
Three U.S. service members have been killed in ongoing operations in the Middle East, as U.S. and Israeli strikes continue to hit Iran and Iran responds with waves of missiles and drones across the region.
Fighting intensified in the Middle East during the Olympic truce, in effect through March 15. Flights are being disrupted as athletes and families converge on Italy for the Winter Paralympics.
An Oman port and an oil tanker off its coast were attacked on Sunday, official media said, marking the first strikes on the sultanate – which mediated US-Iran talks – since Tehran launched a retaliation campaign.
Israel said on Sunday it had launched more attacks on Iran, while the Iranian government continued strikes on Israel and on U.S. targets in Gulf states, Iraq and Jordan.
A widening Middle East conflict looks set to create the most significant disruption for gas markets since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine upended global trade four years ago.
The Iranian government has announced 40 days of mourning. The country’s supreme leader was killed following an attack launched by the U.S. and Israel on Saturday against Iran.