[Getty Images/CNN] When millions of Iranians poured into the streets in 1979 to end the rule of the former shah, their revolution seemed to have put an end to the practice of passing power from father to son. Not so. Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has been elevated to the position his father held for nearly four decades until his death in US-Israeli air strikes. The 88-member Assembly of Experts did what many Iranians had hoped it woul

Smoke rises following an explosion, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, March 7, 2026. [Photo Credit: Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/ Reuters] BEIRUT/MIAMI/TEL AVIV/DUBAI, March 7 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he is not interested in negotiating with Iran and raised the possibility that the Iran war would only end once that country no ​longer has a functioning military or any remaining leadership in power. Speak

U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a press conference after meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., December 29, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst WASHINGTON, March 8 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump ​said on Sunday ‌that when to end the war ​with Iran will ​be a "mutual" decision made ⁠with Israeli ​Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Speaking ​by phone with The Times of Israel, ​Trump said Netanyahu ​will

Smoke rises following an explosion, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, March 7, 2026. Stringer/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS QAMISHLI, Syria March 8 (Reuters) - Kurdish residents of northeast ​Syria warned Iran's Kurds against aligning with the U.S. to fight the Iranian government, citing their own experience in Syria in recent ‌months as evidence their Iranian counterparts would be "abandoned." Iranian Kurdish militias based in northern Ira

A bird flies next to the damaged Ramada Plaza hotel building in the aftermath of an Israeli strike, following an escalation between Hezbollah and Israel amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in central Beirut, Lebanon, March 8, 2026. REUTERS/Claudia Greco BEIRUT, March 8 (Reuters) - Israel's military said it ​hit Iranian commanders in the Lebanese capital early on Sunday, expanding the scope of its campaign to the heart of Beirut after days ‌of strikes that have left near

Sahar AL ATTAR—AFP or licensors The war in Iran has killed hundreds of civilians , displaced hundreds of thousands more , sent global oil prices skyrocketing, created a political crisis for President Donald Trump and shaken the stability of the Gulf. But for one nation at least, the chaos has created opportunity. Russia has emerged from the first week of the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran as an early winner, seemingly able to profit from the secondary economic and geopolitica

Foreign minister wants ‘conversation’ about closing UK military sites following lack of warning of impending attack on RAF Akrotiri [RAF Akrotiri was struck by a drone believed to have been launched by Hezbollah last Sunday. Although no one was injured the Cypriot government was angered that citizens near the base were not warned about the attack. | Photo Credit: Yiannis Kourtoglou/Reuters] Cyprus’s foreign minister has said there are “questions” about the future of the UK’s

[Smoke rising from the southern Lebanese village of Odaisseh near the border with Israel | Photo Credit: AFP via Getty Images] Beside Israel's northern border fence, the bursts of machine-gun fire from inside Lebanon are loud and long, as new Israeli forces push in to take strategic positions near the border. The regular rumble of air strikes echoes over the shattered remains of Shia villages, destroyed during Israel's last ground war there in 2024. A senior military official

At heart, to impose unconditional surrender on Hezbollah and uproot the party among its coreligionists. Source: Getty Israel is repeating parts of the military playbook it used against Hezbollah in 2024, but its strategy is different this time. It was evident, even before Hezbollah fired a handful of rockets toward Haifa in northern Israel in the early hours of March 1, that the Israeli political leadership and military command had been looking for a reason to resume the war

War With Iran Won’t Reshape the Region the Way America Wants After a strike on a police station in Tehran, Iran, March 2026 Majid Asgaripour / West Asia News Agency / Reuters Eager to show that he can do what no American leader has done before, President Donald Trump has chosen conflict over diplomacy and gone to war with Iran. The Islamic Republic, knowing that this fight is existential, retaliated quickly with deadly missile and drone attacks on Israel, U.S. bases in the Mi