Joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran plunged the Middle East into renewed turmoil. Here’s what you need to know to understand the conflict.

Israel is preparing for a multi-week military onslaught alongside the US to fully “dismantle” key pillars of Iran’s theocratic state and the Revolutionary Guards that protect the Islamic republic, said current and former Israeli officials.

U.S. and Israeli forces continued their airstrike campaign across Iran. Tom Wait reports.

Iran launched missiles at Israel early Thursday as aerial attacks in the Middle East commenced for a sixth day after an American submarine sank an Iranian warship and Iran threatened the destruction

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the United States is just getting started in Iran and the military will go deeper into the country. Iran widens its retaliation with new attacks, and so far, 11 countries have been targeted.

The flight, chartered by the UK government, was supposed to leave Oman on Wednesday night but was delayed by a technical issue. One passenger calls it a "total farce".

The U.S. sank an Iranian warship in international waters, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday, as it intensified its bombardment with Israel of Iran's security forces and other symbols of power.

Iran's foreign minister threatened the United States following the sinking of an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, calling the attack an "atrocity. " "The US has perpetrated an atrocity at sea,