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The Israeli prime minister had set in motion plans to attack Iran long before President Trump began efforts to resolve nuclear concerns through negotiations.

The operation a year and a half in the making involved secret cooperation between agents, drone operators and technicians in the intelligence service.

Authorities blamed the Islamic State for a suicide bombing at a church outside Damascus, citing preliminary investigations. At least 25 people died, officials said.

An audio recording obtained exclusively by The Washington Post is a window into the covert campaign by Israeli intelligence to intimidate Iranian military officials.

Aside from condemning the U.S. attacks, Russia has not taken any more concrete moves to support Iran as its foreign minister visits Moscow.

In the past, following other U.S. military actions, it has taken years for the full dimensions of Iran's intended campaigns of revenge to come into view.

More than 300 drones and a dozen missiles slammed into Kyiv even as Russia condemned U.S. airstrikes on Iran.

Iran defended its right to self-defense, as President Trump doubled down on the claim that the strikes had caused "monumental damage" to Iranian nuclear sites.

NATO leaders meeting this week in The Hague will confront the prospect of another open-ended U.S.-led war outside the North Atlantic region the alliance was created to defend.

Arab governments, especially in the Gulf, had once taken a hawkish line toward Iran but now worry U.S. strikes could upend regional stability and hurt business.