Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, a Kuwaiti-American, was held for several weeks after posting about the Iran war. Kuwait does not appear to have commented publicly on his case.

After months of upheaval, many are attempting to get on with their lives while quietly grappling with grief, economic stress and a loss of hope.

Officials are investigating similar attacks across Europe, all claimed by a shadowy Islamist group that may be using low-cost, unsophisticated methods to sow fear in Jewish communities.

The Bank of England and European Central Bank held interest rates steady on Thursday, as officials search for signs of possible longer-term damage and warn of the impact of a prolonged energy shock.

Despite the fragile cease-fire in the Middle East, many Africans say they are bracing for tougher times ahead and making difficult decisions about the future.

Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said in a statement that Iran would establish “new legal frameworks” for the Strait of Hormuz. He also said his country would retain its nuclear capabilities.

If President Trump flies to China as planned in May, the primary topic will clearly be the rippling economic effects of a war that Beijing has made clear it viewed as unnecessary.

Germany has hugely increased its military spending, aiming to be less dependent on Washington. Its support for U.S. attacks on Iran may also give it leverage.

President Trump ripped up a pact designed to prevent Iran from building a bomb. Getting a better agreement now could prove difficult.

In just eight weeks, much of the global economy has been knocked sideways. America has mostly been spared from the tumult.

In its latest offer delivered on Sunday, Iran proposed opening the key waterway to shipping traffic and lifting the U.S. blockade, while postponing the thornier nuclear issue until later.

Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, met with President Vladimir V. Putin in Moscow. Russia has tried to avoid entanglement in the conflict while remaining a key player in the region.

Despite a cease-fire, Israel and Hezbollah have been trading attacks almost daily.

Not since his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, traveled to Washington after the Suez Crisis has a visit by the British monarch come at such a fraught point in Anglo-American relations.

Cease-fires in Lebanon and Iran are on shaky ground, with military attacks flaring and direct talks between Washington and Tehran to end their war stalled.

An Iranian negotiator returned to Pakistan on Sunday, despite the United States’ abruptly calling off a trip there by its two top negotiators.

Each side is betting it can last longer than the other, analysts say. But there are risks in a stalemate without a deal.

Officials had locked the city down, anticipating talks between U.S. and Iranian delegations. But they didn’t happen. “What did I close my business for?” one business owner asked.

The last-minute scuttling of the trip to Pakistan was the latest sign of how far apart the two sides are on reaching a deal to end the Iran war.

Pope Leo said he has seen the letter from the parents of more than 100 children killed in the strike, which a preliminary inquiry found resulted from a mistake by the U.S. military.

President Trump withdrew from the Obama-era nuclear accord in 2018, saying it was the worst deal ever. But Iran responded with an enrichment spree that haunts the negotiations to this day.

The war has exacerbated Iran’s economic crisis, forcing many to cross the border into Turkey to buy the most basic goods.

President Trump has outsourced much of his diplomacy to others, while Mr. Rubio focuses on his second job as national security adviser.

The Treasury Department also targeted a top independent Chinese refinery that it said was a major buyer of Iranian petroleum.

Iran’s foreign minister has already arrived in the country, state media reported. He was believed to be carrying a written response to a U.S. proposal to end the war.

The U.S.-mediated cease-fire halted an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah, but their intensifying attacks on each other could put the truce at risk.

An internal Pentagon email, reported by the Reuters news agency, suggested Washington was reviewing options to penalize the two nations for insufficiently supporting the war in Iran.

On his recent trip abroad, Leo XIV made some of his most forthright comments since becoming pope last year, but grew uncomfortable at how that criticism was interpreted.

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, a Kuwaiti-American journalist, is expected to be released soon, after 52 days in detention, a lawyer for two of his family members said.

The killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ushered in a new form of collective leadership in the country, with more power for the Revolutionary Guards.

The president’s apocalyptic rhetoric clashes with the responsibility of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to protect the military’s honor.

A “whole civilization will die tonight,” the president said as he turned up the pressure on Iran’s leaders to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

The warning did not name specific facilities that had been struck or say whether any damage had been done.

U.S., Iranian, Israeli and other officials offered varying accounts about the state of negotiations between Washington and Tehran.

Senator Ron Johnson said he hoped President Trump was making empty threats, but most in the G.O.P. cheered his warning that Iran’s “whole civilization” would be wiped out.

The vote came hours before an 8 p.m. deadline set by President Trump to reach a deal to reopen the waterway.

U.S. and Israeli forces hit targets in Iran as President Trump threatened to wipe out a “whole civilization.”

Members in both chambers of Congress said the president was threatening war crimes, and a growing number, questioning his mental fitness, called for his removal.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson and Senator Ron Johnson were among those pushing back against President Trump’s threats toward Iran.

President Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s eagerness to recount details of the rescue of a downed airman followed weeks of silence on the deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian school.

As the Persian Gulf conflict boosts the oil revenue that finances Moscow’s war against Ukraine, Kyiv’s forces are striking at Russia’s ability to refine and ship its crude.

Global leaders are struggling in their efforts to find a way to end the American-Israeli war on Iran, and they are spooked about what President Trump might do next.

For a second time, President Trump extended the deadline for Iran to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

For centuries, an Omani exclave has been defined by a peculiar duality: rugged isolation and proximity to one of the world’s most important trade routes.

The secretary of state said the United States and Iran were passing messages to each other as he headed to France for a diplomatic meeting of the Group of 7 nations.

Just after stocks ended another bruising day, the president took to social media to promote progress in talks with Iran.

Video footage shows two people in central Israel barely missing being hit by what the Israeli military said was a bomblet from an Iranian cluster bomb. Emergency responders said that five others were treated from the blast. The attack came as President Trump ratcheted up pressure on Iran to agree to a peace deal to stop the war.

The reprieve would ease disruptions in Malaysia’s energy supply, but the prime minister has vowed to make preparations for a more volatile future.

Over 100,000 people have fled to temporary shelters as Israel continues strikes on Lebanon.

Prediction market platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi go way beyond sports and politics. We take a closer look.

A jumble of emissaries — a friend, a family member, a dove and a hawk — on the Iran crisis reflects President Trump’s improvisational approach.

Iranian tourists with visas will be barred for six months in case they are ‘unable or unlikely’ to go back because of the war, Australian officials said.

Hours before a call between President Trump and India’s prime minister, American officials urged India to focus on shared goals and ignore differences.

European politicians risk angering their voters if they join America’s war. Yet they could also face domestic upheaval if they take no action to reopen shipping routes that Iran has blocked and ease an energy crisis.

From India to Southeast Asia to South Korea, currencies are crumbling as governments race to secure fuel that is priced in American money.

G.O.P. lawmakers who have given the Trump administration wide latitude to wage war with no congressional input are growing frustrated as officials offer little detail about ground troops, cost or timeline.

The fighting continued while conditions for a possible cease-fire were debated.

The 2,000 paratroopers heading to the region may give President Trump more leverage in negotiations, but they also leave him with the option of doubling down on military force.

Their troubles could cascade across Asia because they export a majority of their products.

American airports have become a symbol of government dysfunction, and the spring travel season is just around the corner.

The president has domestic and international political motivations for touting negotiations to end the war. Iran has similar ones to deny discussions.

Syed Asim Munir’s role demonstrates Islamabad’s acute exposure to regional instability and newly found geopolitical relevance.

Iran has severely damaged several American military bases in the Middle East, officials say.

The United States is discussing ways to end hostilities with Iran, even as the Pentagon dispatches more troops.

Stopping Iran’s production of drones is critical to opening the Strait of Hormuz and halting its attacks on Gulf nations. But can it be done?

Examining an image of children near a missile fragment, which landed near a school as several families were sheltering inside it.

The decision by Lebanon’s foreign ministry has heightened fears of internal instability. Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed militant group and political party, was quick to condemn the move.

There may be no country better situated geographically than Iran when it comes to bringing an oil-dependent world to its knees.

Attacks on schools and property in several countries have Jewish communities on edge, amid suspicions that Iran is behind the violence.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had led one of Italy’s most stable postwar governments. Now she’s under pressure after failing to convince Italians to back a judicial overhaul.

President Lee Jae Myung called on the public to cooperate, likening the energy supply disruption caused by the Iran war to the Asian financial crisis and the pandemic.

Our national security correspondent David E. Sanger looks at President Trump’s trouble handling retaliatory attacks by Iran that have largely choked off the Strait of Hormuz.

An Iranian missile attack on Tel Aviv damaged residential buildings and injured several people, Israel’s national emergency service said.

Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr replaces Ali Larijani, who was killed last week in an Israeli strike. He has a history of expanding the Guards’ reach into Iran’s politics.

Qatar’s Foreign Ministry warned that the regional security system has been shattered, as the war has destroyed trust between Gulf countries and Iran.

Israel Katz, the Israeli defense minister, suggested that Israeli troops might remain in parts of Lebanon even after the fighting there winds down.

President Trump once called Prime Minister Keir Starmer a friend. But Britain’s decision not to join the attacks on Iran has led to merciless mocking by the president.

A 4-year-old, a professor and an aid worker are among those killed in separate airstrikes as Israel pummels towns and cities, saying it is targeting Hezbollah operatives.

With the use of electronic jamming systems and interceptor drones, the Ukrainian national oil and gas company may be a model for others.

He delivered a lengthy speech at his country’s rubber-stamp Parliament, declaring that his nuclear power will shield his country from American hostility.

With President Trump threatening to strike Iranian power plants, some war-weary civilians are panicking over a possible new debacle.

The new war has led to panic buying and a surge in food prices for Gazans as they try to recover from Israel’s two-year offensive against Hamas.

A new phase targeting oil and gas infrastructure in the Persian Gulf threatens to hurt businesses and customers around the world for months or even years.

The war in Iran is choking off Afghanistan’s main economic lifeline and has forced at least 70,000 Afghan workers and students there back home to a nation embroiled in another conflict.

The president’s messages on the war have shifted, but the latest threat might be a sign that he’s moving to a harder stance.

Two missiles landed hours apart, wreaking havoc in two towns near a heavily guarded nuclear site in the Negev Desert.

The Israeli military said its campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon would intensify, while Iran threatened to attack civilian infrastructure if President Trump followed through with an ultimatum.

Tehran “will not hesitate in defending its people and its land,” a senior official said, after President Trump threatened to destroy Iranian power plants.

Israel Katz, the defense minister, said he ordered troops to destroy more bridges and buildings in southern Lebanon, stoking worries that Israel was widening a military-controlled buffer zone there.

Attacks on Saturday injured dozens in Arad and Dimona, two cities closest to Israel’s main nuclear research facility.

Thousands displaced by Israeli strikes on Lebanon’s capital now shelter along the promenade hugging the Mediterranean Sea. They share it with joggers, cyclists and dog walkers, alongside dizzying displays of wealth.

An Iranian missile wounded dozens in Dimona, a city believed to house Israel’s nuclear weapons program, as Iran showed no signs of backing down.

The Newroz holiday comes at a critical time, as Kurds in Turkey push for peace while their brethren in Syria and Iran fear further conflict.

The current restrictions on the internet in Iran are coinciding with Nowruz, the observance of the Persian New Year.

The 90-mile waterway, back in focus amid Israel’s renewed offensive in Lebanon, could define how far the fighting spreads.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s latest global tour emphasized military cooperation rather than developing trade ties.

Sri Lanka has kept more than 250 sailors in protective custody since the early days of the war. Iran wants them back, but Sri Lanka is unsure what to do with them.

The Ukrainian president has said he has a “very bad feeling” about the effects of the Iran conflict on Ukraine’s own war.

The island’s government, rationing fuel amid shortages from the Iran war, surprised residents by imposing an unusual four-day week.

In the first days of the U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran, Mr. Trump pressed for a popular uprising against Tehran’s government.