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The U.S. expects its military operations against Iran to conclude within weeks, not months, and Washington can meet all its objectives without using ground troops, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday.
Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation (AEOI) says in a statement published by Iranian outlets that the site of the Bushehr nuclear power plant has been attacked today for the third time during the current war.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) warned it would carry out retaliatory strikes on industrial facilities across the region following attacks on its nuclear and infrastructure sites.
US President Donald Trump said Friday that "Cuba is next," as he pointed out his administration's use of America's "great" military in Iran and Venezuela.
The United States is expected to deploy the aircraft carrier USS George Bush to an area near the ongoing conflict with Iran, CBS News reported.
Saudi intelligence source confirms reporting that crown prince has urged Trump to ramp up ‘historic opportunity’ to remake Middle East – key US politics stories from Friday 27 March at a glance
Según las autoridades, una llamarada y una columna de humo se elevan tras el impacto de los restos de un dron iraní interceptado contra una instalación petrolera, el sábado 14 de marzo de 2026, en Fujairah, Emiratos Árabes Unidos. (AP Foto/Altaf Qadri)
NEW YORK — US stocks deepened their drops Friday as Wall Street finished off a fifth straight losing week, its longest such streak in nearly four years.
US President Donald Trump said the United States is “crushing Iran currently, as we speak”, claiming that ongoing US attacks are forcing Tehran toward negotiations.
Stocks keep falling as investors lose patience with the Iran war. (AP Photo: Seth Wenig)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — US President Donald Trump on Friday insisted Iran must open up the Strait of Hormuz to oil traffic to make a peace deal — and dubbed the crucial waterway the "Strait of Trump."
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Houthi supporters shout slogans during a rally against Israel and the United States' war on Iran. Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis have not yet been active in the Iran war. Source: AP / Osamah Abdulrahman
Israel, meanwhile, hit more of Iran’s nuclear sites, prompting Tehran to vow retaliation
El secretario de Defensa de EEUU, Pete Hegseth, escucha al presidente Donald Trump mientras este habla en el Despacho Oval de la Casa Blanca, en Washington, el 24 de marzo de 2026. (Ap Foto/Alex Brandon/Archivo)
WASHINGTON — As President Trump cranks up pressure on Iran, Pentagon brass are quietly lining up a wide menu of military options — which could put US boots on the ground in a major war for the first time in nearly half a decade.
Yemen’s Iran-allied Houthis say they are prepared to intervene militarily if other countries join the United States and Israel in their war against Iran, or if the Red Sea is used to launch attacks on their ally.
As tough as the competition is, the most dishonest trope of the entire major-media drive to protect the Islamic Republic of Iran has to be the constant claims that President Donald Trump and the Pentagon “have no plan” for the war, and no clue how they’ll end it — a fecklessness that supposedly has us headed for a “…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Thursday, March 26, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
The whirlwind of uncertainty in the oil markets has continued this week as the United States-Israel war on Iran approaches the one-month mark.
WASHINGTON — To the victor go the naming rights.
A projectile hit near Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, Tasnim is reporting, citing Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation.
LONDON — Russia is sending a shipment of drones to Iran including upgraded versions of the drone technology that Tehran originally supplied to Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine, US and European officials told The Associated Press this week.
Israeli authorities have confirmed multiple casualties and at least one fatality, after Iran launched its latest wave of retaliatory strikes promising to exact a “heavy price” on the Jewish state for its attack on the “heart of Tehran.”
A heavy water production plant at Khondab in Iran was hit on Friday, Iran told the International Atomic Energy Agency.
A group of anti-war, US military veterans have slammed what they say are Israeli interests guiding US military policy, culminating in the current US-Israeli war on Iran that is putting American lives at risk.
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JERUSALEM — Israel's military warned late Friday that Iran had fired missiles toward it, as AFP correspondents reported air raid sirens in Jerusalem and explosions were heard from the city of Jericho in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Tehran, Iran – Heavily armed state forces continue to control Iran’s streets, despite the United States and Israel launching more strikes and preparing for a potential ground attack, as the nearly one-month war proceeds with no clear end point on the horizon
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At least three people have been killed after a residential building was destroyed during US-Israeli airstrikes on the Iranian capital overnight, RT’s Tehran bureau chief Hami Hamedi has reported from the scene.
Israel has struck a uranium processing facility in the central Iranian city of Yazd, the Israeli military confirmed, in an escalatory move that comes as regional diplomats have been attempting to broker an agreement to halt the joint US-Israeli war on Iran.
U.S. stocks closed out their worst week since the Iran war began and their fifth losing week in a row.
A bad week for stocks was particularly rough for tech investors, as the Nasdaq suffered its worst weekly drop since April 2025. Meta and Micron saw double-digit drops, but the pain was felt across the board as concerns about the U.S.-Iran war drove up energy prices.
Dow fell 800 points as oil prices continue to climb, and markets are still on edge despite US pause on Iranian energy strikes
ARCHIVO – Las defensas aéreas ucranianas interceptan un dron Shahed en el tercer ataque aéreo ruso contra la capital en las últimas 24 horas, en Kiev, Ucrania, el 30 de mayo de 2023. (AP Foto/Evgeniy Maloletka, Archivo)
Mojtaba Khamenei has inherited the role of Supreme Leader and its extensive formal powers, but lacks the automatic authority enjoyed by his father. Source: AAP / Middle East Images
El iraní Sardar Azmoun controla el balón durante el juego de fútbol de cuartos de final de la Copa Asiática entre Japón e Irán en el Estadio Ciudad de la Educación en Rayán, Catar, el sábado 3 de febrero de 2024. (Foto AP/Aijaz Rahi, Archivo)
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has announced that the Strait of Hormuz is closed and any transit through the waterway will face “harsh measures”, according to state media.
To explore the roots of Donald Trump’s Iran military strategy and the pugnacious rhetoric of his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, means looking back 105 years. In 1921, a year before Benito Mussolini and his blackshirts marched on Rome to launch the Fascist era, an Italian general named Giulio Douhet published The C…
The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS) is providing support to people in Sri Lanka who are unable to contact their loved ones in affected regions through its Restoring Family Links (RFL) programme in response to the recent escalation of hostilities in Iran and other countries.
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Iran’s Sardar Azmoun controls the ball during the Asian Cup quarterfinal soccer match between Japan and Iran at Education City Stadium in Al Rayyan, Qatar, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File)
Gas prices are displayed at a gas station in Parma, Ohio, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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Marco Rubio says allies need to lead postwar efforts to allow safe passage of ships in the Strait of Hormuz. (Reuters: Brendan Smialowski)
Los jugadores de Irán cantan el himno nacional sosteniendo mochilas escolares en simbolismo por los niños presuntamente fallecidos en un ataque estadounidense contra una escuela en Minab, antes de un juego amistoso de fútbol entre Irán y Nigeria, en Antalya, sur de Turquía, el viernes 27 de marzo de 2026. (Foto AP/R…
Donald Trump is sending marines to the Middle East while also talking about negotiations with Iran. (Reuters: Ken Cedeno)
The federal government is turning its mind to what Australian support in the Middle East might look like after the war. (ABC News: Matt Roberts)
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio has offered wide-ranging remarks upon his departure from the latest Group of Seven (G7) ministers’ meeting in France, denouncing Iran’s continued chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz as well as settler violence in the occupied West Bank.