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Drones, Rockets Target US Embassy in Baghdad

No casualties immediately reported as militias escalate attacks in Iraq

(Newser) - The US Embassy in Baghdad came under its heaviest fire since the latest US-Israel conflict with Iran began, Iraqi security sources said early Tuesday. Multiple rockets and at least five drones were launched from areas around the capital, with a Reuters witness seeing three drones head toward the embassy. Two...

Israel: We 'Cut Off the Head of the Octopus,' Again

Attack near Tehran reportedly kills top Iranian security chief Ali Larijani

(Newser) - Israel says it has taken out one of Iran's top security figures. Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that on Monday night, airstrikes near Tehran killed Ali Larijani, described by officials as a key architect of Iran's military response to recent US-Israeli attacks, per the Wall Street Journal . Katz...

Trump Asks China to Postpone His Trip

President doesn't tie delay to his Strait of Hormuz request

(Newser) - President Trump said Monday he wants to delay a trip scheduled for the end of the month to Beijing for meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping. "We've got a war going on," Trump told reporters at the White House. "I think it's important that I...

Trump: US Unsure if New Iranian Leader Is Alive

He notes that Khamenei hasn't been seen in public, which 'could be for a lot of different reasons'

(Newser) - President Trump says the US isn't sure whether Iran's new supreme leader is even alive. Speaking to reporters at the White House on Monday, the president said his administration has conflicting information about Mojtaba Khamenei's condition. "I mean, a lot of people are saying that he'...

Trump Blasts Allies Over Gulf Request

But 'we don't need anybody,' he says after lukewarm reaction to request for warships

(Newser) - President Trump publicly criticized US allies on Monday for turning down or slow-walking his push to send warships to guard commercial traffic through the Persian Gulf. Trump, who argues nations that rely more heavily than the US on the region's oil should step up, said "numerous countries" had...

Iran's New Leader Appointed Against Father's Wishes: Report

Ali Khamenei viewed son as unqualified, intellectually limited, sources say

(Newser) - Iran's new supreme leader reportedly inherited a job his father didn't want him to have. CBS News reports that US intelligence shared with President Trump indicates the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had doubts about his son Mojtaba Khamenei's abilities and suitability to succeed him, viewing him as...

Most Iranian Women's Soccer Defectors Drop Asylum Bid

Players reportedly faced threats and pressure on their families in Iran

(Newser) - A high-profile defection story involving the Iranian women's soccer team is rapidly unraveling. The Wall Street Journal reports that of seven players and a staffer who sought to remain in Australia after refusing to sing Iran's national anthem at a March tournament, only two now plan to stay....

'We Will Remember,' Trump Says in Warning on Strait

President reiterated his call to have other countries help secure Strait of Hormuz

(Newser) - President Trump is pitching the Strait of Hormuz as a loyalty test for NATO, warning the alliance faces "a very bad" future if US partners don't help Washington open the key oil route off Iran. In an eight-minute phone call with the Financial Times , Trump reiterated his view...

Iran-Linked Hackers Carry Out 'Significant' Cyberattack

Cyberattack disrupts Stryker systems, exposes hospitals' vulnerability to Iranian hackers

(Newser) - Iran launched a notable strike against the US that didn't involve missiles, reports the Wall Street Journal , which calls it "likely the most significant wartime cyberattack against the US in history." Cyber group Handala—seen by US and Israeli experts as working for Iran's Ministry of...

Netanyahu Debunks Iran Death Rumors With Cafe Video

Video shows Israeli prime minister alive amid Iranian media rumors

(Newser) - Iranian state TV said Benjamin Netanyahu had been killed or injured; the Israeli prime minister answered with a coffee run, Reuters reports. On Sunday, Netanyahu's office posted a short video on his Telegram channel showing him at a café on Jerusalem's outskirts, joking with an aide about the...

Nations Make No Promises After Trump Asks for Help

Wright says gas prices could drop below $3 per gallon by summer

(Newser) - President Trump's appeal for foreign navies to help the US make the Strait of Hormuz safe for shipping—especially for oil tankers—is being met with guarded, mostly noncommittal reactions from the countries he singled out. A day after Trump's call to counter Iran's chokehold on the...

Israeli Forces Fatally Shoot Palestinian Parents, 2 Children

Authorities say troops in West Bank town felt threatened

(Newser) - Israeli troops fatally shot a Palestinian couple and two of their young children in the occupied West Bank on Friday, Israeli and Palestinian officials said. The family's car came under fire in the town of Tammum, near Tubas in the northern West Bank, while a joint operation by the...

FCC Chair Jumps on Trump's Media Criticism

Brendan Carr says stations will lose licenses if they air distorted war coverage

(Newser) - The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission again is dangling the ultimate penalty over broadcasters, this time for how their news operations are covering the war with Iran. Brendan Carr threatened on social media Saturday that TV stations could lose their licenses if they continue to air "hoaxes and...

JD Vance's War Skepticism Is Becoming an Issue

VP has long opposed foreign interventions, and he reportedly warned against Iran conflict

(Newser) - The longer the Iran war continues, the more attention is being paid to a potential rift between President Trump and Vice President JD Vance over the fallout. Politico reports that Vance advised against the war beforehand, quoting a senior Trump official as saying Vance is "skeptical," "worried...

Top General Warned of Strait Closure Before War

Trump acknowledged the risk, opted to go forward, reports Wall Street Journal

(Newser) - The Wall Street Journal suggests that President Trump underestimated Iran's ability to throttle the Strait of Hormuz. Its story reports that Trump's top general—Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff—warned the president in multiple briefings that Tehran would close the vital shipping lane...

Trump Pressures Allies to Help Secure Strait of Hormuz

After attack on embassy, US tells Americans to leave Iraq

(Newser) - President Trump called Saturday in a pair of posts for an international naval effort to secure oil shipping lanes severely restricted by Iran. Trump wrote on Truth Social that "many countries" would dispatch warships to the Strait of Hormuz to ensure it remains "open and safe," urging...

Trump Email Offers to Trade Security Briefing for Donation

Solicitation includes official photo of dignified transfer at Dover

(Newser) - President Trump's political action committee is offering donors what it describes as access to his "private national security briefings" in a fundraising email built around an image from a recent dignified transfer of fallen American soldiers at Dover Air Force Base. The message, sent by Never Surrender Inc....

2 EU Nations Are Reportedly Talking With Iran Over Hormuz

Officials tell FT that France, Italy have moved to restart Gulf energy flows without escalating conflict

(Newser) - European leaders are quietly testing a diplomatic side door around the Strait of Hormuz crisis. France and Italy have opened exploratory talks with Iran over securing safe passage for commercial ships, hoping to restart oil and gas flows through the narrow waterway without sliding deeper into the regional war, officials...

Trump: US Bombed Iran's Key Kharg Island Oil Hub

Strike raises stakes in Hormuz standoff, global oil markets

(Newser) - President Trump says the United States has hit what may be the most valuable piece of real estate in Iran's energy network. In a Truth Social post on Friday night, the president claimed that American forces bombed Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, calling it Iran's "crown...

More Marines, Warships Are Headed for Middle East

USS Tripoli is going after Bessent suggested escorts for commercial ships in Strait of Hormuz

(Newser) - The US is sending more Marines and warships to the Middle East as tensions with Iran intensify around a key global shipping route, American officials said Friday. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has authorized a request from US Central Command for part of an amphibious ready group and its Marine expeditionary...

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