TUESDAY, 17 MARCH 2026, 15:11
A complex tug-of-war inside the White House is driving US President Donald Trump’s shifting public statements on the course of the Iran war, as aides debate when and how to declare victory even as the conflict spreads across the Middle East.
Israel has carried out air strikes in central Beirut for the first time since the latest conflict began, displacing hundreds of thousands of people.
NPR’s Steve Inskeep asks CNN’s Fred Pleitgen for his takeaways from his recent reporting trip to Iran.
The seamen died when Iranian warship the Iris Dena was sunk on 4 March by a US submarine near Sri Lanka.
The U.S. Central Command confirmed that at least four of six crew members on the KC-135 aircraft were dead, after the refueling plane went down in western Iraq on Thursday.
Iranians who fled the country before the war with the U.S. and Israel are now watching it unfold, wondering what will happen when it ends.
A US military refuelling aircraft crashed in western Iraq, in an incident US Central Command said involved another aircraft, but was not the result of hostile or friendly fire.
A record 280 political parties had registered by Thursday’s deadline to participate in Haiti’s first general election in a decade, hopeful for a chance to help ease their country’s multiple crises.
China’s Foreign Ministry criticized the Trump administration’s trade investigation as a “pretext” for tariffs. Meanwhile, China is moving ahead with a five-year plan that may rankle trade partners.
Drones, cruise missiles and fighter jets have become a common sight for many sailors stranded on ships in the Gulf.
The highest-profile contest is for the mayorship of Paris – which has been under left-wing control for 25 years.
The echoes between the conflicts are certainly there but there are also profound differences.
UFC fighters will visit the FBI academy in Quantico, Virginia, this weekend for a training seminar on techniques and tactics and preparing for competition.
President Trump has been voicing his frustration with the Spanish government’s opposition to the war in Iran. But far from backing down, Spain’s prime minister is happy to walk into the spotlight.
The killing of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei raises questions about whether the U.S. as a democracy should be in the business of assassinating foreign leaders.
The Israeli military’s top lawyer cites “exceptional circumstances” for dropping the case involving a Palestinian man held at Sde Teiman military prison.
Attacks by Iran have already nearly halted the flow of oil through the vital waterway as commercial ship crews fear being hit by missiles, drones or mines.
The UAE says more than 1,800 drones and missiles have been projected at the country since the war began.
Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank are taking advantage of curbs on movement imposed during the war on Iran to attack Palestinians, with military roadblocks preventing ambulances from reaching victims quickly, rights groups and medics say.
A message attributed to Mojtaba Khamenei also says Iran will continue targeting US bases in the region.
Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, lacks the authority of his father and is leading “a hereditary monarchy” reliant on the backing of the powerful Revolutionary Guards, an exiled opposition group said on Thursday.