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New signs of a widening regional conflict emerged Thursday as the war with Iran entered its sixth day, with European allies pledging warships and access to military bases for the U.S. campaign, Israel intensifying strikes in Lebanon against Hezbollah militants, and Kurdish forces preparing for a potential incursion into northern Iran.

The United States is dominating the skies above Iran. But math is not necessarily on America's side. Iran is using low-cost drones for precision attacks in the Middle East. The United States and its allies have air defense systems capable of intercepting a vast majority of Iranian ballistic missiles and drones, which are sophisticated yet costly.

 The White House tried for a fifth day Wednesday to explain why the United States is waging war in Iran — this time it was press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s turn — as Democrats said the president has not made a clear case.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization shot down a ballistic missile that was fired from Iran and headed toward Turkish airspace on Wednesday.

A record number of Russians favor peace negotiations over continuing the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine, even as support for the military action remains high, according to an opinion poll.

MIAMI – Mike Hammer, a career U.S. ambassador and currently the highest diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Havana, said he believes a change in government in Cuba will happen this year, adding to the string of voices predicting regime change on the island.

The State Department is scrambling amid the fallout from President Donald Trump’s high-stakes military assault on Iran and Tehran’s blistering response, with at least three embassies shuttered as of Tuesday as violence worsened and U.S. citizens left in the region with limited means to escape.

As the war in the Middle East intensifies, Iranian Americans in the United States are expressing a wide range of emotions, reflecting deep divisions over Iran’s next leadership and the conflict abroad.

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran reverberated across the region for a fourth day, with oil and gas prices surging and the world adjusting to a conflict that President Donald Trump says has no fixed timeline.

It took only hours into military strikes on Iran for the United States to find itself in a familiar but unsettling position: the swift removal of a global foe, only to confront an aftermath that history suggests will prove difficult to navigate.

A British base in Cyprus struck by a drone. A French facility in Abu Dhabi targeted. A base hosting Italian troops in Kuwait hit. Saudi oil facilities attacked as ships queue outside the Strait of Hormuz. Missiles over Bahrain and Qatar. Gulf airspace shut down.

SYDNEY – Australia said on Monday it would not take part in any military operations in Iran, ruling out deploying troops to the Middle East if the conflict escalates, as ​Israel launched fresh strikes on Tehran and Iran responded with more missile attacks.

BEIRUT – Israel carried out heavy airstrikes on the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut on Monday, after the Iran-backed group launched missiles and drones towards Israel in ​retaliation for the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. military announced on Sunday the first American casualties of President Donald Trump’s intensifying attack on Iran, as a new poll showed only 1 in 4 Americans supported strikes against the Middle Eastern country.

JERUSALEM – Israel said it had launched another wave of strikes on Iran on Sunday, as Iranians faced uncertainty after the killing of their supreme leader in U.S. and Israeli attacks that threatened to destabilize the wider Middle East.

Before the American and Israeli bombs started falling Saturday, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the authoritarian center of the theocratic regime for nearly 40 years, had planned for a transition of power in the event of his death.

Dubai’s main airport, the world’s busiest aviation hub, was partially damaged by a suspected aerial strike on one of its main terminal buildings, marking another escalation after air traffic in the Persian Gulf closed down hours after Iran’s retaliatory attacks. The airport operator confirmed that one concourse at Dubai International “sustained minor damage in an incident, which was quickly ...

After a decade of debate, by year’s end the world should finally have a rule book for mining the deep sea, Leticia Carvalho, the head of the International Seabed Authority, said in an interview.