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Iran launched new attacks on Tuesday at Israel and Gulf Arab countries as it kept up pressure on the Middle East in a war started by Israel and the United States that has sent oil prices surging and stunned global economies.

Russian and Ukrainian officials are making contradictory claims of battlefield successes in their 4-year-old war, with Ukraine saying it has pushed Moscow's forces back in some places on the front line, but the Kremlin insisting that Russia's ...

A top Iranian security official has threatened U.S. President Donald Trump in an online message.

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.