Lebanese Defense Minister Michel Menassa said on Monday that Israel has conducted 3,491 airstrikes against targets in Lebanon since the U.S.-brokered “ceasefire” began on April 17.
The Iranian armed forces claimed in comments published on Monday that the missile assault on Israel they launched the day before had concluded — but reportedly threatened continued bombings, including against American oil facilities, if the terror regime considered it necessary.
Israel struck military and petrochemical targets inside Iran for the first time since an early-April ceasefire on Monday after Tehran launched ballistic missile barrages at the Jewish state.
Iran shattered the fragile ceasefire that had largely held since April 8 by launching multiple ballistic missile barrages at Israel on Sunday, threatening to derail negotiations that President Donald Trump said were only days away from producing a broader agreement between Washington and Tehran.
Iran is demanding the release of $24 billion in frozen assets as a condition for advancing a potential agreement with Washington, while U.S. forces intercepted Iranian missiles and drones targeting Kuwait, Bahrain, and maritime traffic near the Strait of Hormuz and President Donald Trump’s top envoys quietly convened nuclear experts to prepare for the possible implementation of a deal.
Israeli Ambassador to Australia Hillel Newman said on Wednesday that renewed military action against Iran is possible if Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities are not neutralized by a prospective peace deal with the United States.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday Russia used the powerful hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile during a mass drone and missile attack on Kyiv on Sunday that killed at least two people, marking the third time the weapon has been used in the four-year war.
Iran has reportedly agreed in principle to surrender its stockpile of highly enriched uranium as part of the emerging U.S.-brokered agreement President Donald Trump said Saturday, confirming the now “largely negotiated” agreement could be announced as early as Sunday.
A massive fireball and explosion near Jerusalem triggered widespread online speculation late Saturday after dramatic footage near a facility belonging to Israel’s state-owned Tomer defense company spread rapidly online amid mounting tensions surrounding Iran.
CENTCOM chief Adm. Brad Cooper said Thursday that Iran’s military capabilities have been “severely degraded” across “every domain” following the U.S. air campaign against the Islamic Republic.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Friday reported another barrage of missiles and drones from Iran, just hours after Iran attacked three U.S. Navy destroyers in the Strait of Hormuz.
President Donald Trump said Thursday that Iranian attacking forces were “completely destroyed” after Tehran fired missiles, drones, and fast attack boats at three U.S. Navy destroyers transiting the Strait of Hormuz, prompting U.S. Central Command to carry out retaliatory “self-defense strikes” on Iranian military targets and port areas as the fragile ceasefire between Washington and Tehran again came under strain.
President Donald Trump warned Monday that Iran would be “blown off the face of the earth” if it attacks U.S. vessels carrying out Project Freedom, as Iranian forces fired missiles, drones, and deployed fast-attack boats against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz — prompting U.S. forces to destroy six Iranian boats — while Tehran launched a major barrage at the United Arab Emirates.
Defense analysts and security officials told The National on Monday that Iran is “relying on Chinese and Russian-made guidance chips” to improve the accuracy of its drone and missile attacks.
Russia hammered civilian areas of Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles in an attack that stretched for hours.
U.S. Central Command Commander Adm. Brad Cooper said Thursday the United States has achieved its core military objectives under Operation Epic Fury, declaring Iran “has suffered a generational military defeat” after its more than four-decade military buildup was systematically destroyed in under 40 days.
The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen claimed on Thursday to have struck Tel Aviv, Israel, with a “barrage of ballistic missiles.”
President Donald Trump warned Iran to “make a deal before it’s too late” after a U.S. strike destroyed one of the country’s largest bridges west of Tehran that officials say was used to transport drone and missile components to Iranian firing units targeting allied forces in the region, warning that “much more” would follow as pressure on the regime intensifies.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Tuesday that Iran no longer poses an existential threat to Israel after what he described as a month of joint U.S.-Israeli operations that crippled Tehran’s nuclear and missile capabilities, while President Donald Trump said the war is nearing its end and “won’t last much longer.”
Iran’s plans to hide missiles on ‘container ships’ to raid commerce far away from its own waters has been disrupted, report states.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Friday that strikes on Iran will “escalate and expand” if Iran keeps launching missiles.
Breitbart News hosted a policy discussion on Thursday focused on threats posed by China and the Chinese Communist Party, where Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said China and Iran have been allies and share a goal of opposing the United States as the dominant global power.
President Donald Trump is “prepared to unleash hell” if Iran refuses to “come to a deal,” the White House warned Wednesday, cautioning that the regime “should not miscalculate again” after suffering devastating battlefield losses, as U.S. forces — including Marines and elements of the 82nd Airborne Division — deploy to the Middle East to support combat operations against Iran.
U.S. forces have struck more than 8,000 Iranian military targets and destroyed 130 vessels — marking the “largest elimination of a navy over a three-week period since World War II” — as Iran’s combat capability declines and U.S. forces remain “zeroed in” on dismantling its ability to threaten shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, according to U.S. Central Command commander Adm. Brad Cooper.
Iran attempted to strike Diego Garcia, the Indian Ocean island base critically enabling U.S. strikes, with a pair of ballistic missiles.
President Donald Trump declared Monday that Iran’s military has been “literally obliterated” by the U.S.-led Operation Epic Fury campaign, while revealing that Iranian officials have been reaching out seeking a deal even as he questioned whether those making contact actually have the authority to negotiate on behalf of a regime whose leadership he says has been largely wiped out.
Hezbollah declared a military campaign against Israel on Wednesday night in what Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps described as a “joint and integrated operation,” launching more than 100 rockets, drones, and missiles at over 50 Israeli targets as Jerusalem retaliated with heavy strikes in Beirut and warned the confrontation is now “headed toward a serious escalation.”
President Trump said war is “nearly complete” and warned Iran against trying to escalate, but it seems Tehran hasn’t got the message yet.
Assessing the first week of the U.S.–Israeli campaign against Iran, retired U.S. Army Major and urban warfare scholar John Spencer sharply rejected what he called the “lazy comparisons” critics have drawn between the operation and the Iraq War.
The United States expects to achieve its military objectives in Iran within “four to six weeks” and is already examining potential candidates to lead the country after the conflict, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Friday, as President Donald Trump reiterated there will be “no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.”
The United States says it has continued to dominate the Iranian Navy and Tehran launches strikes against Israel, albeit at a reduced pace.
The United States is “winning decisively, devastatingly, and without mercy” in Operation Epic Fury just four days into the campaign against Iran, according to War Secretary Pete Hegseth, who said Tehran’s missile, air, and naval capabilities are rapidly “evaporating.”
Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), said on Wednesday that U.S. forces struck almost 2,000 Iranian targets within the first hundred hours of Operation Epic Fury.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) stated that because Iran was building ballistic missiles “faster than we could manufacture our defensive capabilities,” “they would have been able to basically say, well, we’re done with
China is pleading with Iran to keep the Strait of Hormuz open for oil shipments, but the terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) insisted on Monday that any ship attempting to pass through the strategically vital strait will be “set ablaze.”
The military operation against Iran has entered its fourth day on Tuesday, with missiles and rockets traded by combatants overnight.
Operation against Iran has entered third day, with strikes against targets inside Iran and interceptions against Iranian aircraft ongoing.
Retired British Army Colonel Richard Kemp, a former operational commander in Afghanistan, said Iran “seriously miscalculated” President Donald Trump’s resolve — a misjudgment he argued led to the most significant strike against the Islamic Republic since 1979 and one that could now fundamentally reshape the regional order.
President told Iranian armed forces to lay down their arms or face “certain death” as “major” strikes against Tehran commenced.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi claimed on Thursday that an “understanding” was reached on “most elements of a potential agreement with the U.S.” during talks in Geneva, Switzerland, but no major breakthroughs were announced.
