(AP/PTI)(AP06_14_2025_000001B) In the smouldering wreckage of Israel’s aerial blitz over Tehran, one figure cuts an increasingly isolated silhouette—Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the 86-year-old ...

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Iran’s key global allies, Russia and China, have also condemned Israel’s strikes. They have previously shielded Tehran from ...

Militia groups allied with Tehran have mostly stayed out of its war with Israel.

The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah was long considered Iran’s first line of defense in case of a war with Israel.

Iran relies on a network of paramilitary groups across the Middle East, but that network’s influence has greatly diminished ...

While Tehran has spent decades building up militias in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and Syria, most of the groups have found themselves battered in recent years, making them unable and unwilling to ...

On December 7, 1941, Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor. Maps, both historic and newly created by National Geographic, yield new insights into the full scope of Japan's battle plans for the day ...

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An expanding bloc of NATO allies has taken on a broad range of missions since the close of the Cold War, many well beyond the Euro-Atlantic region, in countries such as Afghanistan and Libya.