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The Latest: US deploys thousands more troops to the war as Iran threatens world tourism sites
3+ hour, 30+ min ago (1834+ words) On one of the holiest days on the Islamic calendar, Iran fired on Israel and energy sites in neighboring Gulf Arab states, insisting that it can still build missiles and issuing a new threat: to deny safety to its enemies…...
Takeaways from intelligence officials’ testimony amid war with Iran
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (1517+ words) FBI Director Kash Patel, Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. James Adams, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Acting National Security Agency Director Lt. Gen. William Hartman and CIA Director John Ratcliffe attend a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Wednesday....
‘I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran’: High-ranking US intelligence official resigns
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (204+ words) Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, testifies during the House Homeland Security Committee hearing, on December 11, 2025. (CNN) " A senior US intelligence official appointed by President Donald Trump abruptly announced he is stepping down from his post on Tuesday,…...
Seventh US service member killed in Iran war is identified as Army sergeant
1+ week, 4+ day ago (588+ words) Smoke rises above the city, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on March 5. (CNN) " A US soldier died after sustaining injuries during an attack last week in Saudi Arabia, the military said, bringing the number of…...
What we know on the 10th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
1+ week, 4+ day ago (185+ words) Black smoke rises after fires broke out following US-Israel attacks targeting some oil storage facilities, including the Shehran oil depot, in Tehran, Iran on March 8. Mojtaba Khamenei (center), the son of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, participates in…...
Evidence suggests the deadly blast at an Iranian school was likely a US airstrike
2+ week, 3+ hour ago (750+ words) The Feb. 28 strike, which had the highest reported civilian death toll since the war began, has come under staunch criticism from the United Nations and human rights monitors. More than 165 people were killed, most of them of children, in the…...
Everything we know on day 6 of the Middle East war
2+ week, 1+ day ago (162+ words) Displaced people fleeing Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon sit on a pickup at a highway that links to Beirut, in the southern port city of Sidon, on March 2. An injured Iranian sailor arrives to receive treatment at the Karapitiya hospital…...
Why Zohran Mamdani denounced the US-Israeli strikes on Iran
2+ week, 1+ day ago (792+ words) New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani attends a news conference in New York on Tuesday. (CNN) " Shortly after President Donald Trump announced that the US and Israel had carried out military strikes in Iran, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani weighed…...
US air defenses may not be able to intercept many of Iran’s one-way drones
2+ week, 2+ day ago (564+ words) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrives to deliver congressional briefings on Iran at the US Capitol on March 3, in Washington, DC. (CNN) " Trump administration officials told lawmakers during a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill Tuesday that Iran's Shahed attack drones represent a…...
What we know about the widening US war with Iran as conflict heads into its fourth day
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1702+ words) Plumes of smoke rise from the sites of Israeli airstrikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut on March 3, 2026. The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders for dozens of locations in Lebanon on March 3, including warning residents in two southern Beirut…...