Who will lead Iran once the war is over? “Most of the people we had in mind are dead,” says President Trump.
The Pentagon and Middle Eastern countries say that most of the drones have been intercepted. But some have slipped through and caused damage.
Energy prices continued to rise on Tuesday as attacks by the United States and Israel on Iran intensified, along with the country’s response.
Many residents of Tehran managed to get out of town when the U.S. and Israel attack began, but others who could not described living under bombardment.
Americans in Riyadh and other cities were advised to shelter in place immediately.
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq offered a stark lesson in the limits of military force. The Iran attacks suggest an era of postwar wariness is over.
Much of Tehran’s arsenal of missiles may be hidden underground, making it harder to destroy.
The United States and Israel started a war with Iran by killing its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
President Trump also declined to rule out sending ground troops into Iran as the conflict spread into the Gulf countries and Lebanon and Israel exchanged strikes.
A surge in sensors and cameras, combined with artificial intelligence, has transformed U.S. intelligence’s ability to locate foreign heads of state. Add to that an American president willing to capture or kill them.