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Tehran has just over 3,000 ballistic missiles, according to a U.S. estimate. Nine models of these projectiles have the capacity to reach Israeli territory

The country is reopening its airspace after the unprecedented early morning attack. All eyes are now on Netanyahu’s expected retaliation and the role the United States will play

The Israeli military said over 100 drones had been fired toward its territory but that its air defenses were prepared for the attack. The U.S., with its large troop presence in the region, said it would provide unspecified support to Israel

COGAT, the Israeli military body in charge of Palestinian civilian affairs, said Friday it has sent 1,903 trucks into Gaza over the last week, with 221 truckloads of aid reaching the north over that same timeframe

Israeli authorities urge the EU to immediately declare the Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. Experts feel Tehran may be buying time with a move that it feels is not serious enough to legitimize retaliation by Israel

Indications that a direct attack against Israel would trigger a resounding retaliation by Biden and Netanyahu are deterring Tehran from action, experts say

Lufthansa has stopped flying to Iran for security reasons after an Israeli attack in Damascus last week triggered an announcement by the Ayatollah Khamenei that punishment is imminent

Iran has raised the tone of its threats after the attack on its Syrian consulate. Israel ‘will be punished,’ said Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

The army said it had achieved its military objectives in Khan Younis and would shift strategy to favor ‘targeted incursions.’ Military sources deny that the decision is due to pressure from Washington

The army has canceled leave for all combat troops, called up Air Force reservists and beefed up missile defenses amid fears Tehran will launch an attack on Friday

Friday’s assassination and bombing in Syria threaten to further inflame the Middle East. The end of the siege on Gaza’s largest hospital leaves charred buildings, bodies on the ground and piles of rubble

The economic and political backing of China, the military support of Iran and North Korea, and the strategic depth granted by Belarus are some of the cornerstones of the Kremlin’s powers of endurance

Lawmakers rejected, for now, the bill, but referred it to a committee for further discussion. It could return for another vote within weeks

The war, which has killed nearly half a million people and displaced half the country’s pre-war population of of 23 million, began as peaceful protests against Bashar Assad’s government in March 2011

Schumer, the first Jewish majority leader in the Senate and the highest-ranking Jewish official in the U.S., strongly criticized Netanyahu in a 40-minute speech on the Senate floor

The report commissioned by the United Nations accuses Iranian security and paramilitary forces of killing and torturing protesters with ‘encouragement and endorsement by high-level state authorities and senior members of state institutions’

The full extent of the damage to the Liberian-owned ship remained unclear, but the crew abandoned the ship and deployed lifeboats

While global shipping has already been disrupted through the Red Sea, the sabotage of telecommunication lines could further escalate the monthslong crisis

It took days for Iran to announce the turnout statistics without explanation. The Interior Ministry run Iranian elections, which have no substantial international observation

The EU is going through a metamorphosis that seeks to dissuade Putin from undertaking new aggression and guarantee its autonomy in a turbulent world

The artist has focused her work on the beauty of the women of Afghanistan, working around wars and patriarchal restrictions. Since the Taliban returned to power, she has been living as a refugee in Paris. She tells EL PAÍS that the group has created a system of ‘gender apartheid that makes life impossible’

State-run IRNA news agency and state TV said Saturday that 1,960 from 5,000 ballots in Tehran have been counted so far, based on an interior ministry report which is updated hourly

The sentence for musician Shervin Hajipour was announced on the same day the country held elections that served as a test of the regime’s legitimacy

Polls predict low turnout in first election since the death of Mahsa Yina Amini in police custody

The U.S. says the Hong Kong-registered Kohana Co. Ltd. has shipped over $100 million in Iranian commodities to businesses in China on behalf of Iran’s Ministry of Defense