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Hundreds of protesters took to the streets across the embattled Palestinian territories on Tuesday, a day after Israel's parliament passed a measure establishing the death penalty by hanging for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis.

Thousands of additional U.S. troops are heading to the Middle East as the Trump administration has insisted that progress has been made in talks with Iran and has threatened to escalate the war if a deal is not reached soon.

President Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. could end the Iran conflict in two to three weeks, adding that it could be sooner if Iran wants to make a deal.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that Iran is still able to project power beyond its borders with drone and missile barrages despite more than a month of consistent U.S. and Israeli attacks.

The Pentagon is deploying the full spectrum of military forces for "maximum optionality" in the Middle East, giving President Trump virtually unlimited options in deciding how far to push the U.S. campaign against Iran.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the military knows that China and Russia are backing Iran in the war as steps are underway to counter the support.

Iran's ongoing resistance to Israeli-U.S. bombardment is built on a solid foundation: Its relationship with a fortress state that defied one of the heaviest U.S. bombing campaigns ever, and which today boasts one of the world's biggest missile ...

Supporters of Iran's imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi say she may have suffered a heart attack.

The U.S. Army has launched an administrative review after two AH-64 Apache helicopters hovered near the Nashville, Tennessee, home of singer Kid Rock, a prominent supporter of President Trump, during a training run over the weekend.

President Donald Trump is threatening to deploy ground troops to seize critical oil infrastructure on Iran's Kharg Island, a military gambit that experts say would risk American lives and could still fail to end the war.