A day after rescuing Iranian sailors from the wreckage of a warship sunk by a U.S. submarine, Sri Lanka’s neutrality is being tested.
Mission? Hostilities? Don’t call it a war, say G.O.P. lawmakers grappling with the political and legal challenges of the operation in the Middle East....
Presidents have sidestepped Congress to launch limited military strikes for decades. Trump’s decision to attack Iran is an aggressive escalation....
How the antiwar right sees Trump’s foreign policy....
By hosting a pavilion again this year, Russia continues its efforts to shed its status as a cultural and sporting pariah....
Plus, why you should not let A.I. do your taxes....
Rising energy prices, snarled supply chains and higher government debt could all hurt American consumers....
Iran maintains ties with a range of countries, including Turkey, India, Russia and China. Yet in this war, their support is mostly rhetoric....
The opening days of the conflict are challenging the idea that President Trump can project force abroad while safeguarding American lives and the economy....
Voters across this politically purple state made it clear on Tuesday that they wanted to punish the powerful on both sides of the aisle. It may be a warning to incumbents elsewhere....
Even as some top targets held on, lawmakers in both parties were pushed into runoffs by challengers in Texas, while some in the North Carolina state legislature lost....
“This could be the first war ever launched based on vibes,” Jimmy Fallon said....
Nearly every Republican voted to block a measure that would require that President Trump win authorization from Congress to continue the offensive in the Middle East....
The C.I.A. has given small weapons to Iranian Kurdish forces in Iraq in a covert program that began before the current war....
State media and online propagandists are striking a confident posture, despite heavy losses. Some of the content was generated by artificial intelligence....
Both sides have moved troops toward their shared border, while Ethiopia has accused Eritrea of occupying part of its territory....
Some kind of severe weather is expected every day into early next week, forecasters warned. Friday is expected to be among the riskiest....
President Trump’s embrace of military action in Iran was set off by the determination of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to end diplomatic negotiations. Our investigative reporter Mark Mazzetti describes how few of Mr. Trump’s advisers voiced opposition....
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said it was the first such strike since World War II. The Sri Lankan authorities said they had rescued 32 sailors from the crew of 180....
We explore what the sides hope to achieve in this conflict....
Beth M. Hammack, head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, says it is too early to gauge the economic impact of the Iran war and backs holding interest rates steady for “quite some time.”...
Higher energy prices, political instability and a potential new wave of refugees: The escalating regional conflict in the Middle East could have far-reaching effects....
If Russia has all the cards, why has it achieved so little?...
They were from Nebraska, Florida, Iowa and Minnesota. One was wrapping up his final deployment and hoped to open a martial arts studio....
Has the president’s unerring instinct for vulnerability finally failed him?...
A jury found that Colin Gray, the father of the suspect, bore criminal responsibility for the attack at a Georgia school by failing to heed warnings of his son’s struggles....
Who will lead Iran once the war is over? “Most of the people we had in mind are dead,” says President Trump....
Judge Michael E. Farbiarz warned in an order on Monday that he may have to hold the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in criminal contempt....
The Islamic Republic is aiming to draw out the conflict and broaden the fighting. That would force President Trump to risk more casualties and more political capital....
“We’ll see what happens with the people,” President Trump said as he appeared to be distancing himself from the longer-term consequences of the war in Iran....
Ben Rhodes, a contributing Times Opinion writer, discusses why Trump waged war on Iran — and why his predecessors didn’t dare to....
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New York Times
