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June 23, 2025

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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is briefed by Professor Alon Chen, President of the Weizmann Institute of Science, as he visits the facility's site which was hit by an Iranian missile barrage, in the central city of Rehovot on June 20, 2025. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / POOL / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Analysis

Euphoric Netanyahu’s push for Iran regime change after US strikes risks ‘anarchy’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is ecstatic over the Americans striking Iran, but experts are warning the attack might not have fully eliminated Tehran’s nuclear project.

In Tel Aviv, reporting on national security, Israeli politics, defense

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA - JUNE 22: U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia. U.S. President Donald Trump gave an address to the nation last night after three Iranian nuclear facilities were struck by the U.S. military. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Iran's missile systems 'did not see us': Pentagon says nuclear capabilities destroyed at Fordow

Largest-ever USAF B-2 bomber mission involved multiple feints — Iran’s air defenses did not fire a shot, top Pentagon general says.

Commuters drive past an anti-Israel billboard in Tehran, on June 22, 2025. President Donald Trump said the US military carried out strikes on June 22 on three Iranian nuclear sites and that Tehran "must now agree to end this war", following days of speculation over whether the United States would join its ally Israel's bombing campaign. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP) (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)

Turkey airs 'deep concern' as Saudi Arabia, Russia condemn US strikes in Iran

Iranian-backed proxies, including Hamas and the Houthis, condemned the attack, with the Yemeni militants saying retaliation is only a "matter of time."

Smoke rises from locations targeted in Tehran amid the third day of Israel's waves of strikes against Iran, on Sunday, June 15, 2025. (Photo by Khoshiran / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by KHOSHIRAN/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump: US dropped bombs on Iran's Fordow, Natanz, Isfahan nuclear sites

Donald Trump now calls for peace after the United States' "very successful attack on three nuclear sites in Iran including Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan."

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Interview

Amos Yadlin: Israel's goal to enable Trump to reach better Iran deal than 2015

Retired Israeli general and Executive Director of Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) Amos Yadlin attends a session at the Manama Dialogue security conference in the Bahraini capital on December 5, 2020. (Photo by Mazen Mahdi / AFP) (Photo by MAZEN MAHDI/AFP via Getty Images)

Analysis

Israel's war in Iran redefining AI’s warfare role: The Gulf is taking notes

A drone flies beside a damaged building following a strike by an Iranian missile in the Israeli city of Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv, early on June 15, 2025.

Francesco Schiavi

By Francesco Schiavi

In Bologna, reporting on security, defense, economy, governance

EU FMs hold talks with Iran's Araghchi as US mulls strike: What to know

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (C) gives a statement during his visit to the mausoleum of slain Lebanese Hezbollah's Leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli air strike in September 2024, in Beirut's southern suburbs on June 3, 2025.

Samuel Wendel

Senior Market Research Analyst

In Washington, DC, reporting on regional business and tech

Francesco Schiavi

In Bologna, reporting on security, defense, economy, governance

Adam Lucente

News and Business Correspondent

In New York City, reporting on regional news, militancy, climate change

Jack Dutton

Chief Business Correspondent

In Bristol, reporting on regional business, climate change, AI, tech

Ben Caspit

Israel Columnist

In Tel Aviv, reporting on national security, Israeli politics, defense

Rina Bassist

Associate Editor (Israel)

In Paris, reporting on Israeli politics and European affairs

President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a House Republicans Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington, DC.

Gaza hostage families look to Trump as hope fades for deal

As President Joe Biden's time in office wanes, the families of the American hostages are looking to his replacement to strike a deal.

Zebulon Simantov reads his old, tattered Hebrew prayer book as he celebrates the Jewish New Year feast of Rosh Hashanah, Sept. 18, 2009, in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Three years after fleeing, Afghanistan's last Jew arrives in Israel

Having fled Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover in 2021, heading to Istanbul via Pakistan, Afghanistan's last Jew has now arrived in Israel.

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Iran arrests 7, kills 4 over alleged Israel links in southeast

According to a spokesperson, an elite military unit killed four “terrorists affiliated with the Zionist regime” and arrested seven others in the province that is home to a separatist group.

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CIA official arrested for top-secret leak on Israel plans to attack Iran: What we know

Asif W. Rahman was charged in a federal court in Virginia last week with two counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information.

Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee leaves Trump Tower on November 18, 2016 in New York City.

Trump picks Mike Huckabee, staunch ally of settlers, as ambassador to Israel

“There’s really no such thing as a Palestinian,” Mike Huckabee said in 2008, and he has insisted over the years on referring to the occupied West Bank as Judea and Samaria.

Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid delivered from Jordan cross into Gaza.

Despite missed deadline to boost Gaza aid, US says Israel arms flows to continue

The Biden administration will not follow through with threatened consequences after Israel missed a deadline to surge humanitarian assistance to Gaza.

US President Donald Trump delivers remarks at a Keep America Great rally in Phoenix, Arizona, Feb. 19, 2020, and Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a ceremony in Jerusalem, commemorating the people of Leningrad during the World War II Nazi siege on the city, Jan. 23, 2020, combination of pictures created on Feb. 21, 2020.

Analysis

With Trump back, Putin works through Netanyahu to strike Israel-Lebanon deal

Russia's President Vladimir Putin indicated in recent days that Moscow is in contact with all parties in the Middle East to push for an end to the fighting.

In Tel Aviv, reporting on national security, Israeli politics, defense

Committee of the Platform Co-Chair Mike Waltz speaks on the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 15, 2024.

Analysis

Who is Mike Waltz, Iran hawk to be named Trump national security adviser?

The former Green Beret and China hawk, who was praised by the president-elect during right-wing media appearances, may soon find himself tasked with contradictory and even illegal policy orders as Trump seeks to shake up Washington's approach to national security during his second term in office.

Jared Szuba

In Washington, DC, reporting on defense, national security, military

Israel's Finance Minister and leader of the Religious Zionist Party Bezalel Smotrich attends a meeting at the parliament, Knesset, in Jerusalem, on March 20, 2023.

Israel's Smotrich calls for annexation of occupied West Bank: What we know

Israeli far-right minister and long-time supporter of Israeli settlements Bezalel Smotrich said on Monday that he had ordered preparations for an Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrives to attend a EU - Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in Brussels on October 16, 2024. Avoiding a "general conflagration" in the Middle East will be top of the agenda when European Union and leaders of countries from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which brings together Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, meet in Brussels on October 16, 2024. (Photo by JOHANNA GERON / POOL / AFP) (Photo by JOHANNA GERON/POOL/AFP via Get

MBS condemns Israel's 'genocide' in Gaza as Saudi frustrations mount

Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler has called for the establishment of a Palestinian state following phone calls with US President-elect Donald Trump and Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian last week.

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Who is Elise Stefanik, Trump's pro-Israel pick for UN envoy?

The president-elect described the New York congresswoman as a "strong, tough and smart America First fighter."

People check the destruction at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the eastern village of Bazzaliyeh in the Hermel district of Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, near the border with Syria, Nov. 1, 2024.

Israel steps up strikes in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza despite diplomatic push

Lebanon, Syria and the Gaza Strip have witnessed heavy airstrikes in the past days, amid renewed efforts to appease the situation in the region.