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Three times a week, Asghar Hashemi undergoes dialysis treatment at a hospital in northern Tehran. He fears that if power stations are knocked out, as U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened in escalating rhetoric, his life will be in danger.

Actor James Woods drew a sharp line between Britain's sweeping firearms restrictions and what he called a creeping cultural and security crisis, posting Sunday night on X that the country has gone from surrendering gun rights to "standing on the edge ...

Portugal has authorized the U.S. military to use its air base in the Azores for military operations in Iran, but said flights originating from Lajes Field can't bomb civilian infrastructure targets.

The Trump administration will spend nearly $39 billion in the next several years on rapidly building the first parts of the new Golden Dome nationwide missile defense system.

Several federal agencies issued a high-urgency joint advisory warning of an urgent and ongoing Iranian-affiliated cybersecurity threat.

Pope Leo XIV said Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to destroy Iranian civilization was "truly unacceptable" and said any attacks on civilian infrastructure violate international law.

A prototype of an autonomous fighter jet designed and built by General Atomics crashed in the California desert on Monday during takeoff, the company said in a statement.

U.S. forces pummeled a critical offshore hub of Iran's oil-export industry as the world waited to see if President Trump would follow through on his threat to bomb the country into the Stone Age unless his ceasefire demands are met.

American journalist Shelly Kittleson, who was kidnapped from a Baghdad street corner last week, has been released, an Iraqi official with direct knowledge of the situation said on Tuesday.

Donald Trump Jr. lashed out at the European Union on Tuesday, saying its liberal policies were discouraging investment and predicted a "major fracture" between the bloc's eastern and western member states.