Trump returns to Washington to face a pair of challenges
WASHINGTON — His 17-day holiday stay at his Florida resort over, President Donald Trump has returned to the White House facing twin challenges: the fa...
Trump doubles down on striking cultural sites in Iran
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Sunday repeated his assertion that cultural sites would be fair game as military targets if Iran carries throug...
Iraq vote, Hezbollah threat leveled at US troops in Mideast
BAGHDAD — The U.S. military presence in the Middle East was thrown into jeopardy Sunday, as Iraq's parliament voted to expel U.S. troops from their co...
Blowback: Iran abandons nuclear limits after US killing
TEHRAN, Iran — The blowback over the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general mounted Sunday as Iran announced it will no longer abide by the limits cont...
The Latest: Baghdad residents say 3 blasts hit Green Zone
BEIRUT — The latest on U.S.-Iran tensions (all times local):
UK’s Johnson: Iranian general ‘threat to all our interests’
LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the Iranian general killed in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq was “a threat to all our interests” ...
Trump’s threats draw Iran’s cultural sites into tensions
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran's ancient and rich cultural landscape has become a potential U.S. military target as Washington and Tehran lob thre...
Protests across US condemn action in Iran and Iraq
WASHINGTON — Demonstrators in dozens of cities around the U.S. gathered Saturday to protest the Trump administration's killing of an Iranian general a...
From resort amid palm trees, Trump settled on Iran strike
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — At the midway point of his annual Christmas vacation, President Donald Trump huddled at his Florida club with his top national...
Rockets fired after day of mourning for slain Iranian leader
BAGHDAD — Thousands of militiamen and other supporters chanting “America is the Great Satan” marched in a funeral procession Saturday in Baghdad for I...
Rose McGowan defends tweet apologizing to Iran after strike
NEW YORK — Rose McGowan's tweet that apologized on behalf of the U.S. to Iran for “disrespecting their flag and people” in the wake of an airstrike th...
On foreign policy, Trump flouts risks that gave others pause
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is not the first American leader to have Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in his sights, but he was the first to pull...
Iran general steps out of Soleimani’s shadow to lead proxies
TEHRAN, Iran — A new Iranian general has stepped out of the shadows to lead the country's expeditionary Quds Force, becoming responsible for Tehran's ...
Was the drone attack on Iranian general an assassination?
NEW YORK — After Friday's targeted killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, newsrooms struggled with the question: Had the United States just carried...
Iran vows revenge for US attack that killed powerful general
BAGHDAD — Iran promised to seek revenge for a U.S. airstrike near Baghdad's airport that killed the mastermind of its interventions across the Middle ...
Trump stirs Mideast tensions despite talk of ‘endless wars’
WASHINGTON — With a single drone strike, President Donald Trump did more than just take out an avowed enemy of the United States. He may have have als...
Iranian cyberattacks feared after killing of top general
BOSTON — Iran’s retaliation for the United States' targeted killing of its top general is likely to include cyberattacks, security experts warned Frid...
Oil prices surge, stocks fall after US kills Iranian general
Stocks fell broadly and oil prices surged after a U.S. strike killed a top Iranian general in Iraq, raising tensions in the Middle East. The selling e...
The Latest: Trump says US not looking to start war with Iran
BAGHDAD — The latest on the U.S. airstrike in Baghdad that killed Iran's top general (all times local):
US long watched Soleimani, but feared risks of a strike
WASHINGTON — In 2007, U.S. commandos watched as a convoy carrying a powerful Iranian military leader made its way to northern Iraq.
US-Iran tensions thrust foreign policy into Democrats’ race
NORTH CONWAY, N.H. — Democratic presidential candidates are lambasting President Donald Trump's decision to kill Iran's top general in an airstrike, a...
Iran’s popular Gen. Soleimani became an icon by targeting US
TEHRAN, Iran — For Iranians whose icons since the Islamic Revolution have been stern-faced clergy, Gen. Qassem Soleimani was a popular figure of natio...
Middle East long riven by killings of high-profile figures
Killings of major political and military figures have been a recurring factor in the modern Middle East, often presenting a defining moment and changi...
Oil prices surge, stocks slip after US kills Iran general
BEIJING — Oil prices surged and most major global stock markets declined Friday after an Iranian general was killed by U.S. forces in Iraq.
Iran can call on powerful friends if conflict engulfs region
JERUSALEM — If Iran decides to follow through on its vow of harsh retaliation for the killing of its top general, it can call upon heavily armed allie...
Iraqi militant killed by US worked with Iran for decades
BAGHDAD — Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, a veteran Iraqi militant who was closely allied with Iran and rose to be a senior militia commander during the war ag...
US kills Iran’s most powerful general in Baghdad airstrike
BAGHDAD — The United States killed Iran's top general and the architect of Tehran’s proxy wars in the Middle East in an airstrike at Baghdad's interna...
Attack on US Embassy exposes widening US-Iraq divide on Iran
WASHINGTON — The New Year's Eve attack on the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad has exposed a deepening divide between the United States and Iraq over ...
Militiamen withdraw from US Embassy but Iraq tensions linger
BAGHDAD — Iran-backed militiamen withdrew from the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Wednesday after two days of clashes with American security forc...
Trump deploys more troops to Mideast after US embassy attack
WASHINGTON — Charging that Iran was “fully responsible” for an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, President Donald Trump ordered about 750 U.S. soldi...