La periodista estadounidense fue secuestrada por una milicia aliada de Irán y retenida durante una semana. Funcionarios iraquíes afirman que fue liberada a cambio de la puesta en libertad de miembros de la milicia.
The journalist, Shelly Kittleson, was abducted by a militia allied with Iran and held for a week. Iraqi officials say she was freed in exchange for the release of militia members.
Ronald Young Jr. was in the Army when his Apache Longbow copter went down during the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Missile interceptors made by the South Korean firm LIG Nex1 are said to be performing well, at a small fraction of the cost of U.S. interceptors.
The freelance journalist was identified as Shelly Kittleson, who has worked for various news organizations, including Al-Monitor, which called for her safe and immediate release.
An economic simulation warned that the region’s economy could lose more than $190 billion in just one month, and that Gulf states that have often bankrolled reconstruction efforts will be less able to help.
These groups’ dream has long been to establish federal autonomy, akin to that of their fellow Kurds in Iraq. With Iran’s leaders battered and degraded, they hope their moment has come.
The attack came a day after a separate strike on the same base, which hosts units viewed by the United States as allies of Iran.
How the fight in Iran compares to past conflicts.
Attacks on schools and property in several countries have Jewish communities on edge, amid suspicions that Iran is behind the violence.
David French talks with the retired general about the “great seduction” America fell for in Iran.
More than three dozen oil, natural gas and related sites have been attacked in nine countries. More strikes could keep energy prices higher for longer.
The NATO mission, created in 2018, trained and advised Iraqi forces. Iraq is among the countries facing retaliatory attacks from the U.S.-Israeli war.
How the conflict could further destabilize the region.
The South Pars gas field, hit by airstrikes on Wednesday, is central to the energy supply of Iran, which was already suffering blackouts before the war.
Iran’s military retaliation, along with the political defiance of its new leaders, evokes a decades-old pattern of unrealized goals for American interventions in the region.
The deaths of two top Iranian officials were announced on Tuesday, while President Trump once again lashed out at NATO allies who refused to aid the U.S. war effort against Iran.
The Pentagon has identified the six United States service members who died last week when a refueling aircraft crashed in Iraq. With their deaths, the total number of service members killed in the war with Iran has risen to at least 13.
Five missiles struck the Baghdad International Airport and injured four people. Israeli and Iranian attacks continued as global economic concerns about the war mounted.
The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad was attacked overnight. Israeli strikes continued to hit the capitals of Iran and Lebanon, as Iran refused to relinquish control over a vital oil route.
The Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson joins E.J. Dionne Jr. and Robert Siegel to discuss Trump’s falling approval rating and what it portends for November.
President Trump is the first American leader to embrace fighting a full-fledged, joint war with Israel. Washington has tried to avoid that level of coordination in the past.
Six crew members died after a military refueling plane crashed in Iraq on Thursday, the U.S. Central Command said. Officials said the crash was not caused by hostile or friendly fire.
In a 40-year career as an international correspondent for The New York Times, Mr. Burns had a talent for capturing the sweep of history in intricate detail.
El choque no fue causado por fuego hostil o amigo, dijo el Comando Central de EE. UU. Al menos 13 militares estadounidenses han muerto en operaciones relacionadas con el conflicto en Irán.
In a 40-year career that brought him two Pulitzers, he reported from trouble spots around the world, eloquently conveying the chaos of war.
Para el secretario de Defensa de EE. UU., la fuerza del ejército estadounidense no radica en sus elevados ideales, sino en su capacidad para castigar a sus adversarios.
The crash was not because of hostile fire or friendly fire, U.S. Central Command said.
The damages would be paid by a Virginia contractor that supplied interrogators to the U.S. military after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
She established a network of safe houses for abused women and was an outspoken critic of her country’s repressive institutions, despite the constant threat of violence.
Continued Iranian attacks on oil infrastructure sent oil prices briefly surging above $100 a barrel again on Thursday, despite world leaders pledging to release a record amount of emergency oil reserves the day before.
The U.S. said this week that it attacked 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels near the Strait of Hormuz. In the 1980s, Iranian mines damaged oil tankers and a U.S. Navy warship.
Our constitutional framework for war lies in pieces around us.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s bellicose and vengeful rhetoric describing the military’s war in Iran grew out of his experience in Iraq.
An attack off the Iraqi coast engulfed two oil tankers in flames, killing at least one person. Senior Iraqi officials believe the attack was Iranian.
Moscow wants victories before its Monday holiday.