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U.S. President Trump said over the weekend he doesn't want the well-armed militias of the Kurds -- the northern Iran and Iraq ethnic group that has often aligned itself with the U.S. in the past -- to join the fight against the regime in Tehran. But ...

President Trump on Monday said other countries might have been responsible for firing a Tomahawk missile that hit an Iranian school on the first day of U.S.-Israeli strikes on the Islamic republic.

On a day when Turkey shot down another incoming Iranian missile and Israel broadened its airstrikes to target Tehran's oil production facilities, U.S. President Trump assured American lawmakers the war is on track to end soon.

Sunday's selection of Mojtaba Khamenei as Iran's new supreme leader runs counter to a foundational pillar of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which ousted the then-ruling shah and installed theocratic rule in Tehran.

President Trump told Republican House members Monday that the war in the Middle East will be only a "short-term excursion."

A U.S. intelligence assessment completed shortly before the United States and Israel launched a war in Iran had determined that American military intervention was not likely to lead to regime change in the Islamic Republic, according to two people ...

The annual spring war games involving South Korean and American forces began Monday against the backdrop of a very real conflict in the Middle East.

The Group of Seven said Monday it would tap strategic oil reserves, if necessary, after oil prices surged above $100 per barrel, heaping pressure on President Trump to address the economic fallout from his war with Iran.

Hungary's government will introduce a price cap on gasoline and diesel at fueling stations beginning at midnight local time, Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced on Monday.

Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu went on trial on Monday with more than 400 other defendants accused of widespread corruption in a case critics see as a politically motivated move against Turkey's opposition.