Born in humble circumstances in the northeastern city of Mashhad in 1939, Khamenei rose to prominence as a follower of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of Iran’s 1979 revolution, and served two ...

The Iranian government has faced major protests over the years, including a mass outbreak that it brutally suppressed in January of this year, killing thousands. On Saturday, there were reports of ...

Finland’s far-right wasn’t quite finished yet, however. Two years later, in 1932, they attempted to launch an armed attack on the capitol from the nearby town of Mäntsälä. They called on the country’s ...

On Saturday, though, Trump cast the conflict in grander terms: “For 47 years, the Iranian regime has chanted death to America and waged an unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder,” he said in a ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

All we know for sure is that Trump has announced what he described as a “massive” war for no clear reason — the result of a warmaking process that no longer follows constitutional procedure, and ...

President Donald Trump announced early Saturday morning that the US and Israel had launched an attack on Iran, saying the goal was to eliminate an “imminent threat” from Iran, “raze their missile ...

Israel, by contrast, was more like a Middle Eastern Pakistan. Believing that the Jews of Palestine could only be safe in an avowedly Jewish state, the Zionist movement pushed for post-colonial ...

President Donald Trump ordered the entire federal government to stop using products from the AI company Anthropic on Friday to stop what he called a “radical left, woke company” from encroaching on ...

President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs last year had been supposed to change everything — as companies retaliated against new tariffs, economists predicted, prices would soar and the US ...

New polling data from Gallup found that 41 percent of Americans say their sympathies are more with the Palestinians versus 36 percent for the Israelis. While that’s still within the margin of error, ...

Maybe that’s why he has chosen a Hollywood-esque high noon — or, at least, late afternoon — showdown for his deepening dispute with the AI company Anthropic. Hegseth has given Anthropic until 5:01 pm ...