Official says Jerusalem is helping the US mainly with intelligence on the Strait of Hormuz crisis, as Iranian media reports a plan to tighten Tehran’s control over the strategic waterway and bar ships from the US, Israel and countries imposing sanctions on Iran

Trained in dense urban warfare, the IDF’s counterterror unit — which prepares elite forces — is now operating at the deepest point of Israeli activity in southern Lebanon, where its commander says its ladders are a 'game changer' for rapid movement across rugged terrain.

Colonel Rich Outzen: 'It's part of the political and psychological game here'

Joe Truzman says Iran is 'attempting to tie the Lebanese arena into the end of the conflict'

The move goes a step further than Madrid’s earlier decision to deny the United States the use of jointly operated military bases

Report says 500 Kurdish fighters were en route to Iran before Ankara intervened; Erdogan warns Trump move could spark wider regional conflict and 'ring of fire'

Human Rights Watch says Iran repeatedly used internationally banned cluster munitions in populated areas of Israel since Feb. 28, killing at least 4 civilians and endangering residents with unexploded submunitions that can remain hazardous for years

More than 40% of the population now lives below the absolute poverty line, with that figure exceeding 50% in the capital; economists warn, however, that the real poverty rate may have climbed above 60% nationwide