Iran has launched retaliatory missile strikes on Israel into Saturday morning after a series of blistering Israeli attacks on the heart of Iran’s nuclear program and its armed forces, killing at least three people and wounding dozens.

Israel’s sweeping attack across Iran struck at the heart of Tehran’s nuclear program, delivering a blow to the country’s ability to enrich uranium and potentially setting its nuclear ambitions back by months or years.

Rallies against President Donald Trump are expected across the U.S. on Saturday to coincide with the military parade in Washington marking the Army’s 250th anniversary, which also falls on Trump’s birthday.

Israel and Iran have opened a new chapter in their long history of conflict.

Israel’s massive strike on Iran on Friday morning came after decades of mutual hostility and a long-running shadow war of covert strikes and sabotage.

Israel has launched a major attack on Iran, raising fears that the long-running shadow war between the adversaries may spiral into a more dangerous regional conflict.

President Donald Trump is urging Iran to make a nuclear deal now that Israel has launched strikes against the country.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has survived an attempt to dissolve parliament.

Iran says it has built and will activate a third nuclear enrichment facility, ratcheting up tensions with the U.N. immediately after its atomic watchdog censured Iran for failing to comply with obligations meant to prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon.

Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu faces the greatest test to his rule since Oct. 7, 2023.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government faces a major test after the opposition submitted a bill Wednesday to dissolve parliament.

Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway have imposed sanctions on two far-right Israeli government ministers for allegedly “inciting extremist violence” against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Health Ministry says Palestinians desperately trying to access aid in Gaza have come under fire again, killing 36 people and wounding 207.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a vote to dissolve parliament Wednesday and key coalition partners have threatened to bring down his government.

Israeli naval forces, far from the country’s shores, intercepted and seized a Gaza-bound ship carrying international activists, including Greta Thunberg, in an early morning raid.

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says that information Iran claims to have obtained regarding Israel’s nuclear program “seems to refer” to the country’s Soreq Nuclear Research Center.

Palestinians say Israeli forces and allied local gunmen fired toward a crowd heading to an Israeli- and U.S.-supported food distribution center in the Gaza Strip.

Iran’s intelligence minister has claimed without offering evidence that Tehran seized an “important treasury” of information regarding Israel’s nuclear program.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel has “activated” some clans of Palestinians in Gaza that are opposed to Hamas, though it was not immediately clear what role they would play.

Israel has recovered the bodies of two Israeli-American hostages taken in Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack that ignited the war in Gaza.

Authorities say a man posed as a gardener before launching an attack in Boulder with Molotov cocktails that injured 12 people.

Hamas is seeking amendments to the latest U.S. ceasefire proposal for Gaza.

Medics in Gaza say Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 27 people, including women and kids sheltering in a tent.

The White House says Israel has accepted a new U.S. proposal for a temporary ceasefire with Hamas.

The White House says the U.S. has submitted a new Gaza ceasefire proposal that has Israeli support.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the man believed to be the head of Hamas’ armed wing, Mohammed Sinwar, has been killed, apparently confirming his death in a recent strike in the Gaza Strip.

Hundreds of Palestinians stormed a United Nations food warehouse in Gaza in a desperate attempt to get something to eat.

A U.S.-backed group that is slated to take over aid distribution in Gaza says it's started operations despite opposition from the U.N. and the unexpected resignation of its executive director.

Groups of Israeli Jews chanting “Death to Arabs” have made their way through Muslim neighborhoods of Jerusalem’s Old City.

Gaza's Health Ministry says the bodies of 79 people killed by Israel strikes have been brought to hospitals in the past 24 hours.

Israel appears to be changing tack as pressure mounts to get more aid into Gaza, and may let aid groups operating in the battered enclave take charge of non-food assistance.

Gaza's health ministry says at least 60 people were killed by Israeli strikes in a 24-hour period as Israel pressed ahead with its military offensive and let in minimal aid to the strip.

It may start as a casual aside, a wee-hours social media post or a much hyped announcement.

The Trump administration has granted Syria sweeping exemptions from sanctions.

Iran’s top diplomat has warned that his country would take “special measures” to defend its nuclear facilities if Israel continues to threaten them, raising the stakes further ahead of a new round of talks with the United States.

Global reactions are pouring in after two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington were shot and killed Wednesday evening while leaving an event at a Jewish museum.

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court are urging judges to reject a request by Israel to scrap arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister while the court reconsiders its jurisdiction over Gaza and the West Bank.

Two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington were fatally shot while leaving an event at a Jewish museum, and the suspect yelled, “Free, free Palestine” after he was arrested.

An Israeli center-left opposition party leader and former general sparked an outcry this week when he made rare criticism of the toll of the war on Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

Three allies of Israel used words like “abhorrent” and “monstrous” this week to describe the country’s actions in Gaza.

The U.N. says it is trying to get the desperately needed aid that has entered Gaza this week into the hands of Palestinians.

The British government says it is suspending free trade negotiations with Israel and leveling new sanctions targeting West Bank settlers as it criticizes Israel’s military actions in Gaza.

Israel has begun allowing a trickle of food and medicine into the Gaza Strip after sealing the territory’s 2 million Palestinians off from all imports for more than 2 1/2 months.

Israel is pressing ahead with its new military offensive in Gaza despite mounting international criticism.

The first few aid trucks have entered Gaza following nearly three months of Israel’s complete blockade of food, medicine and other supplies.

Israel and the United Nations say the first aid trucks have entered Gaza following nearly three months of Israel’s complete blockade.

Israel has retrieved thousands of items belonging to the country’s most famous spy after a covert operation in Syria.

Israel says it will allow a limited amount of humanitarian aid into Gaza after a nearly three-month blockade.

Israel says it has launched a major military operation in Gaza to pressure Hamas to release remaining hostages.

Arab leaders meeting at an annual summit in Baghdad say called for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

The war in Gaza has reached one of its darkest periods.

For decades, Israel has leveraged its special relationship with the United States to serve as a gatekeeper to Washington.

A hospital in southern Gaza says 54 people have been killed in overnight airstrikes on the city of Khan Younis.

Nearly three months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.

Hospitals and health officials say Israeli airstrikes have pounded northern and southern Gaza and killed at least 70 people.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says there is “no way” Israel will halt its war in Gaza, even if a deal is reached to release more hostages.

The U.K. government will defend its decision to continue supplying parts for F-35 fighter jets that may be used by Israel in Gaza at the High Court.

Campus protests have been smaller and more scattered compared with last year's pro-Palestinian tent encampments, but the stakes are far higher.

President Donald Trump is holding out Saudi Arabia as a model for a reimagined Middle East.

President Donald Trump is on his way to the Middle East, where he had intended to focus on pressing wealthy Gulf nations to pour billions in new investment into the United States.

Food security experts say the Gaza Strip is at critical risk of famine if Israel doesn’t lift its blockade and stop its military campaign.

Hamas has freed an Israeli-American soldier who was held hostage in Gaza for more than 19 months.

Hamas says it has released an American-Israeli hostage held in Gaza.

Families of hostages held in Gaza were surprised and angered to hear U.S. President Donald Trump say that three of the hostages who Israel had said were alive had died.

Officials say Israeli strikes across Gaza have killed at least 92 people, including women, children and two journalists, one the father of a newborn.

The war in Gaza may be on the cusp of a new phase after Israel approved plans over the weekend to intensify its operations.

Israel’s Cabinet has decided to seize Gaza for an unspecified amount of time.

Security messages seen by The Associated Press say armed groups and others have looted warehouses of supplies in northern Gaza since Wednesday.

The top United Nations court is wrapping a week of hearings on what Israel must do to ensure desperately needed humanitarian aid reaches Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long been on a campaign against Iran's nuclear program and his opposition helped convince President Trump to withdraw from an Obama era deal meant to rein it in.

Israel says it carried out an attack in Syria on a group targeting members of a minority sect as a new round of clashes left at least 11 people dead.

Israel released a Palestinian medic who has been held prisoner since soldiers killed 15 of his colleagues last month and buried them in a mass grave in southern Gaza.

The head of Israel’s internal security service says he will resign in June over the failure of his agency to warn of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attacks.

Ahead of his second go-around in the White House, President Donald Trump spoke with certainty about ending Russia’s war in Ukraine in the first 24 hours of his new administration and finding lasting peace in the devastating 18-month conflict in Gaza.

Local health officials say Israeli strikes on the northern Gaza Strip killed at least 27 Palestinians early Monday.

A Palestinian diplomat has told the United Nations’ top court that Israel is killing and displacing civilians and targeting aid workers in Gaza in a case that Israel criticized as part of its “systematic persecution and delegitimization.”.

A New York City woman says she feared for her life as she was chased, kicked and pelted with objects by a mob of men who mistook her as a participant in a protest against Israel’s far-right security minister.

Hospitals in the Gaza Strip have received the remains of 51 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes in the last 24 hours.

The top United Nations court on Monday will begin hearing from 40 countries on what Israel must do to provide desperately needed humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

A visit to the U.S. by far-right Israeli security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is prompting fierce protests and exposing rifts in the American Jewish community.

Negotiations between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program are to return to the secluded sultanate of Oman.

Hours after Israel's Foreign Ministry posted a condolence for the passing for Pope Francis, it was deleted without explanation.

Tal Shoham was freed from captivity in Gaza 505 days after Hamas militants abducted him.

Israeli strikes have killed at least 17 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, mostly women and children, and destroyed bulldozers and other heavy equipment that had been supplied by mediators to clear rubble.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel has “no choice” but to continue fighting in Gaza.

When nearly 1,000 Israeli Air Force veterans signed an open letter last week calling for an end to the war in Gaza, the military responded immediately, saying it would dismiss any active reservist who signed the document.

Judges at the International Criminal Court have asked Hungary to explain why it failed to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he visited Budapest earlier this month.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s mansion was the target of an arson attack last weekend, but the attacker's motives are unclear.

Israel’s defense minister says its troops will remain in so-called security zones in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely, after Israel unilaterally expanded its frontiers in the war unleashed by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack.

A spokesman for a hospital in Gaza says an Israeli airstrike hit the northern gate of the Kuwaiti Field Hospital.

An Israeli airstrike has struck the northern gate of a field hospital in the Gaza Strip, killing a medic and wounding nine other people.

Israel says it has completed construction of a new security corridor that cuts off the southern city of Rafah from the rest of Gaza.

Iran and the United States will hold more negotiations next week over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.

President Donald Trump is betting that a beleaguered Iran is so vulnerable following a tumultuous 18 months in the Middle East that it might finally be ready to abandon its nuclear program.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday sought to position his country as a point of stability in an increasingly tumultuous world, saying Turkey was essential for European security and able to span geopolitical divisions over Ukraine, Syria and U.

Iran and the United States will meet in Oman for the first talks in President Donald Trump’s second term over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.

President Donald Trump says that Israel would be the “leader” of a potential military strike against Iran if Tehran doesn’t give up its nuclear weapons program.

The Senate has confirmed former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as President Donald Trump's ambassador to Israel.

Suspected U.S. airstrikes in Yemen overnight into Thursday killed at least three people.

An Israeli airstrike on a residential block in northern Gaza killed at least 23 people, health officials in the Palestinian territory say.