Iran

If this is the extent of Israel's attack as we know it, then it appears to be a well calculated message. The symbolism of hitting Isfahan will not be lost ...

Tehran is playing down the scale of the attack, saying it was limited to three small drones.

Escalation more than six months into Israel's war on Gaza has raised fears of spiralling violence across region.

Discussion 'leans more towards infiltration than attack' says anonymous Iranian official as US says Israel has carried out military operation.

After decades of rivalry, the rival Middle East powers have both miscalculated, writes Jeremy Bowen.

An unclaimed aerial attack in central Iran on Friday comes fresh on the heels of tit-for-tat Iranian and Israeli strikes earlier this month, ...

US officials say Israel hit Iran with a missile overnight on Friday, in what appears to be a retaliatory strike after weeks of escalating tensions between ...

Almost immediately after blasts erupted over an air base near Isfahan in the early hours of Friday, Iran did its utmost to play down Israel's retaliatory ...

The attack comes amid heightened tensions in the Middle East with fears the region could be dragged into a deeper conflict. Iran has downplayed the Israeli ...

Iran is on high alert after Israel said it would respond to an Iranian attack against it on Saturday night. Iran fired more than 300 drones and missiles in its ...

Reported Israeli drone strike on Isfahan may signal that this widening conflict has become more dynamic.

Some in Israel had been calling for a stronger move than this apparently limited strike, writes James Landale.

Oil and gold prices have jumped after US officials said an Israeli missile had struck Iran. Brent crude, the international benchmark, rose to over $90 a ...

There are reports of explosions near Isfahan, as Iranian state media downplay any Israeli attack.

Brent spikes above $90 before dropping close to three-week low as Tehran plays down significance of attacks.

Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, was down 0.4% at $86.8 per barrel, having earlier spiked more than 3%. US crude futures slipped 0.3% to trade at $82.50, ...

Iran deployed air defence batteries to intercept three drones, but downplayed the incident.

Last night, Israel struck a military airbase near the city of Isfahan in Iran. Iranian officials also claimed to have shot down small drones near the ...

Iranian media on Friday reported explosions in Isfahan city, amid steadily increasing tensions with Israel.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has repeated calls for de-escalation in the Middle East, after an apparent Israeli strike on Iran · Speaking from a G7 ...

After decades of rivalry, the rival Middle East powers have both miscalculated, writes Jeremy Bowen.

Both seem keen to limit hostilities, and key Arab states are ready to resist Tehran. But real change will require new Israeli leadership, says Guardian ...

Some in Israel had been calling for a stronger move than this apparently limited strike, writes James Landale.

The scope of Israel's military response to Iran's first-ever direct attack on the country remains murky. Israeli officials have yet to publicly acknowledge ...

Response raises hopes that Tehran may have shelved reprisal threats and that escalation can be avoided.

A senior U.S. military official confirmed to NPR that the Israeli military had conducted missile strikes against Iran. But little else is known about the extent ...

Iran's mass ballistic missile and drone attack on Israel last week raised anew the specter of a widening Middle East war that draws in Iran and its proxies, ...

Tit-for-tat attacks have breached taboo of direct strikes on each other's territory but Tehran has no 'immediate' plans to retaliate.

The historic city, nicknamed "Nesf-e-Jahaan" or half the world, is also a centre for military industry.

Since Iran launched a barrage of missiles and drones at Israel last week, Benjamin Netanyahu has faced the highest-stakes decision of his career: how to ...

The columnist Thomas L. Friedman joined the hosts of “Matter of Opinion” this week to unpack Israel's and Iran's latest attacks, what they mean for Gaza and ...

First, Israel assumed, rightly, that Iran did not want all-out war. It expected wrongly, however, that after years of getting away with striking Iranian assets ...

BOTH WERE aerial strikes on military bases, but the similarities end there. The Iranian barrage of more than 300 missiles and drones aimed at Israel on ...

An Israeli missile has struck Iran, in response to the unprecedented missile and drone attack on Israel over the weekend by the Iranians.

The Israeli military carried out a strike inside Iran in retaliation for a barrage of missiles and drones launched last weekend, an Israeli official said ...

The latest round in the longstanding, dangerous rivalry between Israel and Iran seems over for now, Lyse Doucet writes.

Just before dawn on Friday the explosions of air defence systems woke Iranians across the historic city of Isfahan. The breaking news alerts that followed ...

Hours before Israel launched a drone strike against Iran on Thursday night, Israeli officials gave a heads up to their US counterparts in Washington: an ...

Israeli deterrence is usually about massive use of offensive military force — a roundhouse punch that seeks to compel compliance through coercion. But this time ...

The latest round in the longstanding, dangerous rivalry between Israel and Iran seems over for now, Lyse Doucet writes.

While much of the discussion of the Iran-Israel conflict has been focused on proxy ground attacks, clandestine operations, and cyberwarfare, April 14 marks ...

Experts say Israel's modest attack appears designed to avoid any more escalation, and for now it appears to have dampened fears of direct war.