‘It’s Surreal’: Iranians in Disbelief After Supreme Leader Assassinated
A rally to mourn Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, in Tehran on Sunday.
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After Attack on Iran by the U.S. and Israel, See Photos and Videos From the Middle East
Iranians in Tehran, the capital, mourned Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s supreme leader, on Sunday.
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Iran Attacks Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar and Bahrain After U.S.-Israeli Strikes
A plume of smoke from an Iranian strike rising in the distance from the Dubai International Airport.
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The U.S. Released the Epstein Files. The Arrests Are Overseas.
Police officers at the entrance to Wood Farm on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, Britain, last week, where Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is currently based.
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In Ukraine, a Community of ‘Simple Believers’ Shuns the Modern World
Laying a foundation for a house in the village of Kosmyryn, in western Ukraine, in November.
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The Bloody Rise and Fall of Mexico’s Top Crime Boss
After Mexican forces killed a notorious cartel kingpin on Sunday, his followers set fire to hundreds of vehicles, like this one beside a highway in Jalisco state.
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Trump Gives Green Light to Private Oil Sales to Cuba
The Nico Lopez oil refinery in Havana this month.
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Carney Visiting India, Australia and Japan to Build Canada’s ‘Middle Power’ Bonds
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada, with his wife, Diana Fox Carney, arriving in Mumbai, India, on Friday.
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Taiwan Arms Sale Approved by Congress Is Delayed as Trump Plans Visit to Beijing
An Air Force Patriot missile system was deployed at a local park during Taiwan’s annual Han Kuang military exercise last year.
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Pakistan Strikes Afghanistan in ‘Open War’ Against Taliban Regime
Taliban soldiers looking toward Pakistan from the Afghan side of the Torkham border crossing, on Friday.
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A Trump Call Ignited Saudi-U.A.E. Feud
President Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia at an investment forum in Washington in November.
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Some Russians Go Without Heat or Power in Winter, as Energy System Falls Into Disrepair
Murmansk, Russia, in 2023. The city has been plagued by power and heating outages this winter.
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Were Duterte’s Speeches Orders to Kill or Hyperbole?
Outside the International Criminal Court this week. Hearings have drawn critics and supporters of Rodrigo Duterte, who as president of the Philippines ordered a brutal crackdown on drugs.
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Hungary Plays Spoiler in Europe as Orban Strains for Votes at Home
Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary in Budapest last month.
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Democrats Question Trump’s Urgency to Attack Iran
The War Powers Act requires the president to consult with Congress “in every possible instance” before taking military action abroad, and it limits the unilateral use of force to 60 days.
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What’s Next for Iran? Big Change Seems Certain, but Direction Is Unclear.
Iranians mourning their supreme leader at a rally in Tehran.
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NYPD Steps Up Security After U.S.-Israel Attacks in Iran
Rebecca Weiner, deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism for the Police Department, said the city was in a heightened threat environment.
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Trump Says He’s Open to Talks With Iran in Interview With The Atlantic
President Trump has kept a low profile since the United States and Israel struck Iran, except to call some individual reporters.
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Maersk to Halt Some Red Sea Shipping in Sign of War’s Disruption to Global Supply Chain
Maersk, a large shipping company, said on Sunday that it would stop sending some of its vessels through the Red Sea.
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Iran’s regional alliance has been severely weakened in recent years.
A defaced banner depicting the ousted president, Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, the Syrian capital, last year. One of the largest blows to Iran was the loss of Syria as an allied state after the Assad dictatorship fell in late 2024.
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Air travel to and from the Middle East has become increasingly precarious.
Passengers stranded by the closing of Dubai International Airport waited for help in a parking lot there on Sunday.
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Pentagon Announces First Three U.S. Deaths in War With Iran
President Trump on Friday. He said that the campaign against Iran could result in American deaths.
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Iran’s Regime May Survive, but the Middle East Will Be Changed
Iranians mourning the killing of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Sunday.
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Israelis Are Tense but Relieved That Iran’s Supreme Leader Is Dead
People taking shelter in Herzliya, Israel, on Sunday.
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OPEC Plus to Boost Oil Production as Iran Strikes Threaten Price Spike
An oil refinery and oil terminal in Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia. The eight oil-producing countries in the group known as OPEC Plus, which includes Saudi Arabia, said on Sunday that they would increase oil production in April.
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The U.S.-Israeli attacks have killed a number of Iranian leaders.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, was killed in an Israeli strike on Saturday.
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A top Iranian security official says an interim government will be formed on Sunday.
Ali Larijani, Iran’s top security official, who was close to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran in 2024.
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Why Diplomacy Was Doomed: Trump’s Issue Was Iran’s Leadership Itself
The “radical Shia clerics” leading Iran could not be trusted, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in recent weeks.
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Israel launches new military strikes as Iran retaliates after Khamenei’s killing.
People taking shelter in Tel Aviv on Sunday as air-raid sirens warned of another Iranian missile and drone attack.
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
A giant billboard featuring a portrait of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, in the center of Tehran’s Valiasr Square last year.
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hard-Line Cleric Who Made Iran a Regional Power, Is Dead at 86
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who led for more than three decades, shaped Iran’s Islamic revolution far more than the Islamic Republic’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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The attacks touched off protests across the United States and abroad.
A demonstration in Times Square in New York on Saturday was one of dozens of protests across the country and around the world opposing the joint U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran.
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Middle East Airspace Closes as U.S.-Israeli Strikes Hit Iran
The check-in desk for Emirates airline at London Gatwick Airport on Saturday. The airline announced that all operations to and from Dubai had been paused.
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The Trump administration notified Congress in advance of the Iran strikes.
The lack of transparency on military operations that has characterized President Trump’s second term so far has fueled bipartisan frustration in Congress.
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No Clear Endgame in the Conflict Between Afghanistan and Pakistan
Pakistani airstrikes threatened to inflict major damage on cities in Afghanistan, which was already reeling from economic hardship and a humanitarian crisis.
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Trump’s Unilateral Iran Strike Sparks Constitutional War Powers Dispute
President Trump himself described the attack as “major combat operations” that could result in American casualties.
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Netanyahu Takes His Shot at Regime Change in Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, where he met with President Donald Trump in December.
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Iranian Attacks on Israel Shine a Light on Shelter Shortage
People made their way into a public bomb shelter in the center of Tel Aviv as early warning alerts of missile launches from Iran were sent on Saturday.
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Iran Hits Back Across the Mideast, Targeting U.S. Bases and Allies
Smoke rises in the sky after a blast in Manama, Bahrain, on Saturday.
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Several rounds of U.S.-Iran nuclear talks failed to stave off strikes.
Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, in Beirut, Lebanon, in January. He had said that the most recent round of negotiations ended with an agreement on a “set of guiding principles.”
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As U.S. Bombs Tehran, Some Iranians Feel Abandoned by Their Leaders
In Tehran on Saturday. In telephone and text interviews in the hours after the attacks, many Iranians said they had been left to fend for themselves.
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Israelis Take Shelter as Sirens Warn of Incoming Missiles
People gathered in a bomb shelter in Tel Aviv on Saturday following an air raid warning.
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Trump’s case for striking Iran rests on questionable claims.
A large Iranian flag is carried during a march to commemorate the 47th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Tehran, in February.
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Leaders of E.U., Canada and Other Countries React to U.S.-led Attack on Iran
A plume of smoke rose over Tehran after an explosion on Saturday.
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What to Know About the U.S. Attacks on Iran
Plumes of smoke rose after a reported explosion in Tehran on Saturday.
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How The Times Covers Cartels and Other Criminal Enterprises
The remnants of retaliatory violence, including burned vehicles, was evident along the highway between Guadalajara and Tapalpa, in Jalisco state.
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U.S. Has Annexed Canada in Toronto Artist’s Speculative Series
The artist Dara Vandor with a plaque from her project “Pax Americana” at the Weldon Library on the campus of Western University.
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Who Could Take Over for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?
9 Killed in City near Jerusalem After Iranian Missile Strike
Protesters Try to Storm U.S. Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan
See a Breakdown of Ayatollah Khamenei and Other Top Iranian Leaders
Maps: Where the U.S.-Led Strikes Hit Iran and Tehran’s Retaliation
Iran Says Dozens Are Killed in Strike on School
Members of U.S. Congress Are Divided on U.S. Strikes in Iran