Iran’s Friends Include China and Russia. But Where are They Now?
A police station that was destroyed by U.S.-Israeli airstrikes in Tehran.
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South African President on Trump’s Oval Office ‘Ambush’ and ‘Racist’ Policies
President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa opened up about his relationship with President Trump.
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James Luckey-Lange Recounts Being Detained, Starved and Beaten in Venezuela
James Luckey-Lange was held by Venezuelan authorities for more than a month and was released after then President Nicolás Maduro was captured in January.
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Israel Pushes Farther Into Lebanon, and Readies for More
Military trucks transporting tanks toward the Israeli-Lebanese border on Thursday.
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After Gen-Z Revolution, Nepal Votes for a Fresh Slate of Leaders
Voting in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Thursday. The city still bears the scars of last year’s Gen Z-led revolution
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Who Is Eyal Zamir, the Architect of Israel’s War Plans?
Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, the Israeli military’s chief of staff, attending a ceremony in Jerusalem in October.
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Israel Closes Al Aqsa Mosque at Ramadan, Citing Wartime Safety Concerns
An missile fired to intercept incoming fire flying over Jerusalem on Sunday, with the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound visible in the foreground.
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China Bets on Technology to Resist U.S. Pressure
Xi Jinping, China’s leader, at the annual meeting of the national legislature in Beijing on Thursday.
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Refugee Sentenced to 13 Years for Stabbing at Berlin Holocaust Memorial
The Holocaust Memorial was cordoned off after a stabbing attack last year.
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Why Ecuador Invited the U.S. Military to Help With Its Drug Gangs
The Ecuadorean Coast Guard patrolling in 2025. The U.S. military is now helping Ecuador plan a series of raids targeting the South American country’s violent drug gangs.
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Global Leaders Brace for the Fallout From a Fast Metastasizing War
A woman cries after seeing the rubble from a building that was hit by airstrikes in Tehran on Tuesday.
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on March 2026
Where Are China’s A.I. Doomers?
Service robots on display at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai last year.
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Desperate travelers wait as Dubai resumes a few flights.
Passengers arriving at Dubai International Airport terminal as the airport resumed limited operations in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Thursday.
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French Officer Accused of Shooting Teen to Be Charged Only With Manslaughter
A protest in France last year marking the anniversary of the death of Nahel Merzouk.
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Trump Says He Should Have Role in Picking Iran’s Leader
President Trump said Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of the former Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who appeared to be the leading candidate to succeed his father, was an “unacceptable” choice.
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How many Americans live in the Mideast?
The White House press secretary, Karoline Levitt, providing information for American citizens in the Middle East at the White House in Washington on Wednesday.
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Sri Lanka Is Caught in the Middle as Second Iranian Vessel Seeks Safe Haven
A police vehicle arriving at a hospital in Galle, Sri Lanka, on Thursday, where Iranian sailors rescued from the IRIS Dena were being treated.
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Israeli Evacuation Orders Spark Panic in Beirut
Jammed roads in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, after Israel’s military issued evacuation orders of entire neighborhood on Thursday.
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Fueled by anxiety, exhausted Iranians cross the border into Turkey.
Iranians after crossing into Turkey at the Kapikoy Border Gate earlier this week.
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As Iran Widens Retaliatory Strikes, Europe Accelerates Response for Gulf Allies
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Italy would also honor longstanding bilateral agreements regulating U.S. military bases on Italian soil, as long as they were not used for operations that involved bombing.
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Fallout From Mideast Swirls Over the War in Ukraine
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has offered to share his country’s expertise in defending against Iranian-designed drones.
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Iceland Defeats Iceland: A U.K. Supermarket Ends a Trademark Dispute
An Iceland supermarket in Liverpool, England. The grocery chain was founded in 1970.
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Iranian Kurdish Forces Say They May Enter Iran. Who Are the Kurds?
Iranian Kurdish fighters from the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) take part in a training session at a base on the outskirts of Erbil, Iraq last month.
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NATO’s chief downplays the risks that the alliance will be drawn into the conflict.
The Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, downplayed risks that the military alliance could be pulled into the conflict in the Middle East, on Thursday.
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Trump Says He Wants to Destroy Iran’s Navy. Here’s What to Know.
Iranian naval vessels during a parade in 2024.
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Iran Calls Torpedoing of Ship by U.S. an ‘Atrocity’
Workers unloading the bodies of Iranian sailors killed when an American submarine torpedoed and sank an Iranian frigate off the coast of Sri Lanka.
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Trump Wants a Quick Victory in Iran. But the War May Be Costly.
Heavy smoke rising from Tehran on Tuesday after U.S.-Israeli airstrikes.
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Carney Says Canada and Australia Can ‘Set the Agenda’ as World Faces ‘Crises’
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada addressing Parliament in Canberra, Australia, on Thursday.
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Man Accused of Plotting to Kill Trump Blames Iran for Scheme
A plot to kill President Trump or former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had little chance of success, a man charged with terrorism and murder for hire testified.
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Experts doubt Tehran’s claims of advanced ‘hypersonic’ missiles.
A military parade in Iran in 2024. Tehran has said that it has developed hypersonic missile technology, but many security experts doubt that the missiles have such capacity.
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Pro-American Kurdish Forces Are Preparing Possible Iran Incursion
A member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran inspects the damage sustained at the party’s Azadi Camp after an Iranian cross-border attack in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq.
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Israelis Celebrate Purim Amid Iranian Missile Attacks
Celebrating Purim inside a bomb shelter in Tel Aviv on Monday.
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As Attacks Spread, War With Iran Reaches Far Beyond Mideast
Damage in Tehran has been extensive, including at the police station in the background on Wednesday.
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Senate Thwarts Bid to Curb Trump’s War Powers on Iran
The rubble of a police station in Tehran this week after the U.S.-Israeli airstrikes.
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Ethiopia’s Demand for a Port Drives Fear of New War With Eritrea
Marking the 130th anniversary of the Battle of Adwa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Monday.
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Your Iran questions, answered
People praying in front of the rubble from a U.S.-Israeli airstrike in Tehran yesterday.
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Spain insists it is not cooperating with the U.S. on Iran war despite a White House claim.
Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s prime minister, has condemned the attack on Iran as a violation of international law.
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A U.N. panel condemns the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran.
A photo made available by the Iranian state-run news media of workers clearing debris at a school in Minab, Iran.
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As Israel Pounds Lebanon, Thousands of Syrians There Flee Back Home
Smoke billowed on Wednesday after a strike in Khiam, Lebanon. The escalating conflict has prompted some refugees to return home to Syria.
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Israel and U.S. Trumpet Their Collaboration in War Against Iran
Smoke rose on Tuesday from an airstrike in Tehran. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that having “such a capable ally” as Israel was “a breath of fresh air.”
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U.S. Campaign in Iran Is ‘Far From Over,’ Joint Chiefs Chairman Says
People praying in front of the remains of a police station that was hit in an airstrike.
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Hegseth Says U.S. Strike Killed an Iranian Who Plotted to Assassinate Trump
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the leader of the Iranian unit that tried to kill President Trump was killed in a strike on Tuesday.
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Here’s what satellite images show on efforts to destroy Iran’s ballistic missiles.
A building at a missile facility near Isfahan appears to be severely damaged.
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Britain Arrests a Lawmaker’s Husband on Suspicion of Spying for China
A Chinese embassy building in London in November. Chinese spying has been a sensitive topic in Britain recently.
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on March 2026
The U.K. and France Deploy Some Forces to the Mideast Despite Misgivings About Iran Attacks
The Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, which President Emmanuel Macron of France said would be deployed to help his country’s interests in the Middle East.
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As Iran Expands Attacks, U.S. Orders More Diplomatic Staff to Leave Embassies in 4 Countries
Police standing guard near the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, on Wednesday, following violent demonstrations across the country.
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Israel Says It Downed an Iranian Yak-130 Fighter Jet Over Tehran
Hegseth will headline a campaign rally next week in the home district of a soldier killed in the Iran war.
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