While it remains unclear what weapons were used in the strike, Kan reported that Israel used a "Rampage" air-to-surface missile, claiming it was identified in photos and that dama
Iran’s supreme leader praised the country’s retaliatory strike against Israel a week ago, even as he dismissed Tehran’s low success rate in hitting targets as an insignificant matter.
Iran's supreme leader on Sunday dismissed any discussion of whether Tehran's unprecedented drone-and-missile attack on Israel hit anything there, a tacit acknowledgment that despite launching a major assault,
Iran's foreign minister on Friday said Tehran was investigating an overnight attack on Iran, adding that so far a link to Israel had not been proven as he downplayed the strike. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian told NBC News the drones took off from inside Iran and flew for a few hundred meters before being downed.
Since the Hamas-led attack on Israel last October, the deadliest in Israeli history, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political future has seemed bleak, with critics blaming him for the security failure and his poll ratings plummeting.
Israel seeks to destabilize and degrade Iran’s cherished center of missile and nuclear arms production. Critics argue Israel needs to inflict severe damage on Iran’s regime.
While the media's glare in the Middle East this past week was diverted to Iran's dramatic missile and drone attack on Israel, there has been no let-up in fighting in Gaza. Dozens of Palestinians were killed daily - including many children,
Iran’s foreign minister compared the drones used in an attack by Israel early Friday to “toys,” in comments that aimed at downplaying the significance of the strike on Iranian territory.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei thanked the country's armed forces for their attack this month on Israel, saying the country had demonstrated its power regardless of how many targets were hit, Iran's official news agency reported on Sunday.
Satellite imagery released over the past 24 hours has revealed evidence of probable damage at an Iranian air base following an Israeli strike in the early hours of Friday morning. BBC Verify has analysed two images showing part of an air-defence system at an airfield in Isfahan was damaged.
Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians in the West Bank this weekend, according to the Palestinian health ministry, while the IDF carried out one of its largest operations in the occupied territory since October 7.
While the media's glare in the Middle East this past week was diverted to Iran's dramatic missile and drone attack on Israel, there has been no let-up in fighting in Gaza. Dozens of Palestinians were killed daily - including many children,
European Union foreign and defense ministers are poised to reach a political agreement on Monday to impose new sanctions on Iran over its attack on Israel.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei met with Iranian soldiers on Sunday as he praised Iran's direct strike on Israel, largely foiled by the iron dome, which came in retaliation for Israel's unprovoked aggression.
US officials say Israel carried out a missile strike although there has been no official Israeli confirmation. Tensions between the bitter rivals intensified in recent weeks. An earlier, suspected Israeli strike on an Iranian consulate in Syria at the beginning of the month was followed by a retaliatory attack by Iran on Israel on 13 April.
This week’s White House Report Card finds President Joe Biden slapped with a pair of “Ds” by our graders who highlighted how ineffective he has been on the crisis in the Middle East. Biden told both Iran and Israel not to attack,
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian told NBC News the Islamic Republic does not plan to respond to Israel’s retaliatory strike launched Friday.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's comments before senior military leaders didn't touch on the apparent Israeli retaliatory strike Friday on the central city of Isfahan, even though air defenses opened fire and Iran grounded commercial flights across much of the country.
Tensions are ratcheting up between Israel and Iran following the latest airstrikes. Will things continue to escalate? Michael O’Hanlon, a senior military analyst at the Brookings Institute and author of “Military History For The Modern Strategist” provides insight on what's happening in the Middle East and what it could mean for the U.
Israel said it intercepted 99 percent of the more than 300 drones and missiles fired at it by Tehran with the aid of the United States and other allies and that those which got through caused only minor damage.
Executions of convicts, arrests of dissidents and a resurgence in patrols enforcing the obligatory wearing of hijabs: Iran is stepping up repression at home as tensions flare with its arch-foe
Israeli President Isaac Herzog has warned against the development of nuclear weapons by Iran. In an interview with German mass-circulation Bild newspaper and other media of the Axel Springer publishing group in his official residence in Jerusalem,
Iran and Israel appeared to step back from the brink of broader conflict as lawmakers in the United States approved new Israeli military aid on Saturday despite growing criticism of
The Israeli military conducted a strike on Iran Friday, targeting a military air base near Isfahan, marking Israel s first military response to Iran s assault last weekend
Host Jim Niedelman takes a look at the volatility in the Middle East with returning panelists former Rock Island County Republican Party Chair Drue Mielke and former Rock Island Mayor Mark Schwiebert,
Israel has rehearsed, time and again, bombing and missile campaigns that would take out Iran’s nuclear production capability, much of it based around the city of Isfahan and the Natanz nuclear enrichment complex 75 miles to the north.
Iran has dismissed as akin to child's play Israel's reported retaliation for an unprecedented Iranian strike, as both sides on Saturday appeared to step back from wider conflict stemming from
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei praised the country's armed forces for their "success" in his first public comments since Tehran launched an unprecedented direct attack on Israel last week.
Israel's reported strike in Isfahan, Iran Friday morning demonstrated their ability to hit targets within Iran's borders, but also showed a level of restraint.
World leaders appealed for calm Friday after reported Israeli retaliation against Iran added to months of tense spillover from the war in Gaza, with Iranian state media reporting explosions in
The West’s cowardice in refusing to confront Iran is shameful (Letters, April 20). Mealy-mouthed words from Joe Biden and Lord Cameron, the Foreign Secretary, will encourage not only Iran but also all of its proxies,
What if one of the missiles streaking from Iran towards Israel had been carrying a nuclear payload? That question has been asked by many in the defence establishment this week. For all the alarm about rockets and drones,