Iran’s efforts to mount attacks against US extend far beyond its military. Here’s what to know
March 28, 2026U.S. stocks deepened their drops as Wall Street finished off a fifth straight losing week, its longest such streak in nearly four years
March 27, 2026An Iranian missile attack has wounded at least 10 U.S. service members and damaged several planes at a military base in Saudi Arabia
March 28, 2026Federal law enforcement officials have disrupted a plot to fire bomb the New York City home of a prominent Palestinian activist
March 27, 2026Deep divisions were apparent over the Iran war as top diplomats from the Group of Seven countries have met in France
March 27, 2026A U.N. inquiry urges the Syrian government to investigate senior security officials involved in deadly sectarian clashes in Sweida province last summer
March 27, 2026A year after federal employees were hit by the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts through the Department of Government Efficiency, it remains unclear what the agency saved
March 27, 2026A sharp generational split over the Iran war is opening up at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference
March 27, 2026Iran has banned its sports teams from traveling to countries it considers “hostile,” Iranian state TV reported ahead of Tractor FC’s scheduled soccer game in Saudi Arabia
March 27, 2026U.S. stocks had their worst day since the war with Iran started, as doubt took over again from hope on Wall Street about a possible end to the conflict
March 26, 2026Man charged with planting explosive device at US military base had fled to China
March 27, 2026The Iran war has deflected global attention from Russia’s all-out invasion of its neighbor Ukraine as Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II enters its fifth year and an emboldened Kremlin undertakes a spring offensive
March 26, 2026Trump’s Gulf allies push to have their concerns addressed before Iran war ends
March 26, 2026President Donald Trump has laid out five objectives for the U.S. in its war with Iran that he said the U.S. is close to achieving as he considers “winding down” the operation
March 25, 2026What to know on Day 26 of the Iran war: Tehran taunts Trump, US troop deployment
March 25, 2026The Trump administration offered a 15-point ceasefire plan to Iran, according to a person briefed on the contours of the plan but who was not authorized to speak publicly about it, even as it’s sending more troops to the Middle East
March 24, 2026Lebanon’s Foreign Ministry has declared Iran’s ambassador to Beirut persona non grata, ordering him to leave the country by the end of the week
March 25, 2026Trump says US talking with ‘respected’ figure in Iran. It may be a war veteran with a record of suppressing dissent
March 24, 2026Libyan authorities are towing a damaged Russian “shadow fleet” tanker toward a safe area to prevent an environmental crisis in the Mediterranean
March 24, 2026U.S. President Donald Trump says the U.S. is talking with an Iranian leader and claims the Islamic Republic is eager for a deal to end the war
March 23, 2026President Donald Trump has paused military pressure on Iran by extending his deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and delaying strikes on Iranian power plants for another five days
March 23, 2026Rama Duwaji, NYC’s first lady, faces new scrutiny over her art and social media
March 23, 2026Japan says one of two detained Japanese nationals in Iran has returned home in good health after being released
March 22, 2026The United States and Iran are threatening to target critical infrastructure as the war in the Middle East puts lives and livelihoods at risk
March 22, 2026At least 10 Palestinians were injured Sunday night in attacks in the occupied West Bank by Israeli settlers, who rampaged through nearby villages after holding a funeral for a settler killed in a car crash a day earlier
March 22, 2026President Donald Trump took the United States to war without a vote of support from Congress
March 21, 2026Israeli police attack journalists in Jerusalem, fracturing wrist of CNN producer
March 21, 2026An Israeli strike has hit a Hezbollah-run health center in southern Lebanon and killed 12 medical workers, as Israel widens its campaign beyond fighters
March 21, 2026Dozens of masked Israeli settlers grabbed Qusai Abu al-Kebash in the middle of the night, bound him by his hands and legs and stripped him. He says they then zip-tied his genitals and paraded him through his community while beating him. Israeli settlers have increasingly used violence against Palestinians in a bid to drive them from their homes in the occupied West Bank. But sexual assault appears to be a new weapon in these settlers’ arsenal of intimidation, pointing to a troubling new level of violence.Israeli authorities are investigating the alleged assault and settlers’ alleged theft of hundreds of Abu al-Kebash’s sheep. But Palestinians have largely lost faith in Israeli investigations into settler violence, with few ever resulting in arrests, let alone convictions.Abu al-Kebash recounted his horrifying experience for the first time on camera with CNN’s Jeremy Diamond.
March 19, 2026Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian officials are helping five countries in the Middle East and Gulf region counter attacks on their territory by Iranian drones
March 20, 2026President Trump is best placed to end the war in the Middle East, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam told CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh in an exclusive interview. Salam said Lebanon is ready to enter into talks with Israel but has yet to receive any “clear agenda" to kickstart negotiation and would not be willing to accept any kind of buffer zone stretching into its territory.
March 20, 2026FIFA has fined the Israeli soccer federation for breaching anti-discrimination regulations but it took no action on a Palestinian request to suspend Israel from global soccer for allowing clubs based in West Bank settlements
March 20, 2026Justice Department seizes several websites it says spread terrorist propaganda
March 20, 2026European leaders have demanded the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and a moratorium on strikes on water and energy infrastructure in the Middle East as they met in Brussels to grapple with rising energy prices caused by the war
March 19, 2026Several people on the list are deeply embedded in Iran’s political, intelligence and security architecture.
March 20, 2026Under Israeli bombardment, Lebanon urges Trump to intervene, calls for ‘immediate’ talks with Israel
March 20, 2026CNN cameras captured what appeared to be a cluster munition in the skies over central Israel. CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports on the ground in Tel Aviv.
March 18, 2026The Bank of England is holding its main interest rate at 3.75% in the wake of the oil and gas price hikes following the start of the Iran war
March 19, 2026Palestinian man in the West Bank says he was sexually assaulted by Israeli settlers
March 19, 2026Joe Kent’s resignation from President Donald Trump’s counterterrorism team is fueling a Republican fight over the Iran war and talk about Israel that critics call antisemitic
March 19, 2026For many U.S. Jews, following current events these days can be emotionally tumultuous
March 19, 2026The FBI says a suspicious package found at MacDill Air Force Base contains possible energetic materials, and the investigation is ongoing
March 19, 2026Word of the Week: Denying the enemy ‘quarter’ may sound like tough talk, but it would be a war crime
March 18, 2026We’ve long had your back, now it’s our turn
March 18, 2026Northern Israel's largest city, Kiryat Shmona, on the border with Lebanon, is under fire from both Hezbollah and Iran
March 18, 2026King Charles visit in question as Trump berates UK over Iran war position
March 18, 2026What we know on the 18th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
March 17, 2026President Donald Trump says NATO and other allies have rejected his calls to help secure the Strait of Hormuz
March 18, 2026Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called Russia and Iran “brothers in hatred.”
March 17, 2026Just over a year ago, the Trump administration began an immigration enforcement campaign that swept up multiple people who had participated in pro-Palestinian activism on U.S. campuses
March 18, 2026Americans have been able to know what troops at war are facing, and make informed decisions about the war’s cost, because a free press has been able to tell the story − good or bad. Can it still?
March 18, 2026Trump lashes out after he fails to convince European allies to help in war with Iran
March 18, 2026The U.N. human rights office has expressed concerns about possible “ethnic cleansing,” warning of an acceleration of Israeli settlements and displacements of thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank
March 17, 2026Rescue crews are digging bodies from the rubble of a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul
March 17, 2026President Donald Trump criticized US allies who have refused his demands to send warships to help escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz as the war with Iran continues.
March 17, 2026Sen. Lindsey Graham is tying his reelection pitch to President Donald Trump and the war with Iran, a conflict for which he's long advocated
March 17, 2026Afghanistan has accused Pakistan of targeting a drug rehabilitation hospital in the Afghan capital with an airstrike
March 16, 2026U.S. President Donald Trump says he has pressured around seven countries to send warships to keep the Strait of Hormuz open as fears of a global energy crisis persist and Iranian attacks and threats have choked off shipping in the vital waterway
March 16, 2026President Donald Trump and his team are increasing the pressure on journalists to cover the war in the Middle East the way the administration wants
March 17, 2026Palestinian protester held in immigration detention for over a year is released
March 17, 2026A Palestinian woman who was the last person still in immigration detention after the Trump administration’s 2025 crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists has been released
March 17, 2026President Donald Trump says he has “demanded” that about seven countries heavily reliant on Middle East oil join a coalition to police the Strait of Hormuz
March 15, 2026Israeli soldiers fired on a car carrying a family in the northern West Bank, killing four people, including two children, the Palestinian Authority’s Health Ministry said
March 15, 2026Palestinian hospital officials say Israeli airstrikes hit a home and a police vehicle in central Gaza and killed at least 12 Palestinians, including two boys, a woman pregnant with twins and eight police officers
March 15, 2026Gulf countries have reported new Iranian attacks as the war in the Middle East entered its third week
March 15, 2026Israel's military is claiming that the brother of a man who attacked a Michigan synagogue last week was a Hezbollah commander
March 15, 20266 airmen killed in Iraq plane crash remembered with emotional tributes: ‘Served with honor’
March 15, 2026UEFA said Sunday that the game between Argentina and Spain known as Finalissima that was supposed to be held in Qatar has been canceled after the widening Middle East war
March 15, 2026Israeli forces shoot and kill 4 members of Palestinian family, officials say, after opening fire on car in West Bank
March 16, 2026Israel says brother of Michigan synagogue assailant was Hezbollah commander killed in strike
March 15, 2026Pakistan says it struck militant hideouts in Afghanistan as cross-border fighting intensified and both sides traded blame
March 15, 2026Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he is ready for the next trilateral peace talks with the U.S. and Russia, but the meeting depends on Washington and Moscow
March 15, 2026Turkey’s foreign minister says diplomacy between the U.S. and Iran is stalled, but he thinks quiet back-channel talks remain possible
March 15, 2026Thousands of people have protested in Italy against wars in the Middle East and proposed judicial reforms by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni
March 15, 2026President Donald Trump says the U.S. bombed military sites on an island vital to Iran’s oil network
March 13, 2026Wall Street’s losses deepened as the ongoing fallout from the war in Iran keeps pushing oil prices higher, ratcheting up inflationary pressure on the global economy
March 13, 2026British man charged with cybercrimes in Dubai for allegedly filming missile strikes, UK authorities confirm
March 13, 2026Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the U.S. 30-day waiver on Russian oil sanctions amid the Iran war is “not the right decision” and won’t help bring a stop to Russia’s more than 4-year-old invasion of Ukraine
March 13, 2026Pushing back on U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments, Iran’s national soccer team says “no one can exclude” it from playing in the men’s World Cup in the United States
March 13, 2026An American military refueling plane taking part in the operation against Iran has crashed in Iraq and rescue efforts are underway
March 13, 2026Assault charges against Israeli soldiers dropped in controversial end to a yearlong scandal
March 13, 2026The Israeli military said it is dropping charges against five soldiers accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee in an encounter partially caught on camera
March 12, 2026US Central Command says it destroyed multiple Iranian naval ships -- including 16 minelayers -- near the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday.
March 11, 2026Outdated intelligence has likely led to the United States carrying out a deadly missile strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed over 165 people, many of them children, in the opening hours of the conflict, according to a U.S. official and a second person briefed on findings of a preliminary U
March 12, 2026Iran targeted the world’s busiest international airport Wednesday and attacked commercial ships as U.S. and Israeli strikes rocked Tehran, while the United Nations’ most powerful body demanded a halt to the Islamic Republic’s strikes on its Gulf neighbors that threaten global oil supplies
March 11, 2026US strike likely hit a school in Iran due to outdated intelligence, sources briefed on initial findings say
March 12, 2026The US military accidentally struck an Iranian elementary school, in an attack that state media said killed at least 168 children and 14 teachers, likely due to outdated information about a nearby naval base, according to two sources briefed on the preliminary findings of an ongoing military investigation. In response to a request for comment, a Defense Intelligence Agency spokesperson said, “The incident is under investigation; we defer to the Pentagon for further comment.” A spokesperson for US Central Command also declined to comment on the preliminary findings, citing the ongoing investigation.
March 12, 2026Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon are driving thousands of families to flee again, and some longtime Hezbollah supporters are now openly blaming the group
March 11, 2026Seven members of Iranian women’s soccer team granted visas as rest of squad leaves Australia
March 10, 2026Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano say their meeting on May 16 is the biggest fight that can be made in mixed martial arts, and they’re both thrilled to end their lengthy retirements for the long-awaited showdown
March 11, 2026Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaifi has been left stranded in Qatar amid the war in the Middle East
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