What to Know About the U.S.-Iran Cease-Fire
Pro-government demonstrators in Tehran early on Wednesday, after the cease-fire was announced.
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He Got Rich Buying and Selling Luxury Watches. Was It a Ponzi Scheme?
Luxury watches bought from a business called the WatchFund.
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Even as They Praise Iran Cease-Fire, World Leaders Are Whipsawed by Trump
President Trump addresses the media at the White House on Monday.
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Greece Plans to Block Social Media for Children Under 15
Children checking their tablets and smartphones at a summer camp in Agios Andreas, Greece, last year.
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‘I Love Viktor’: Trump and Vance Cheer on Orban in Hungarian Race
Vice President JD Vance, right, and Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary at a rally in Budapest on Tuesday.
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China Pressed Iran Toward Cease-fire, Iranian Officials Say
Beijing backed Iran in vetoing a Security Council resolution to open the Strait of Hormuz, at the United Nations on Tuesday.
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Ukraine Ramps Up Attacks on Russian Oil, Aiming to Curb Iran War Windfall
A satellite near-infrared image shows smoke rising from Russia’s Baltic port of Ust-Luga after a Ukrainian attack late last month.
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Kanye West ‘Should Never Have Been Invited,’ Starmer Says After Barring Rapper From UK
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaking during a news conference at Downing Street in London, last week.
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Kim Jong-un’s Daughter Drives a Tank as Talk Accelerates Around North Korea Succession
A photograph released by North Korea’s state media appeared to show the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and his daughter, Kim Ju-ae, riding a tank last month.
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Australia Charges Ex-Soldier With War Crimes in Afghanistan
Ben Roberts-Smith leaving a court in Sydney, Australia, last year. The authorities did not identify the former soldier charged, but the announcement followed the arrest of a man identified by local media as Mr. Roberts-Smith.
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U.S. Forces Stand Ready to Resume Combat. The President May Not Be as Enthused.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday declared that the Iranians had been “humiliated and demoralized.”
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Freed French Citizens Return From Iran: ‘We Were State Hostages’
Jacques Paris and Cécile Kohler outside the Élysée Palace in Paris on Wednesday. Ms. Kohler said they went through “daily horror” in Evin prison, a notorious facility in Tehran.
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What Is In Iran’s 10-Point Proposal, and How Does It Compare to U.S. Demands?
Iran’s 10-point peace plan presented to American officials included reparations for the damage it has suffered in the war.
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What Trump Has Accomplished in Iran After 5 Weeks of War
President Trump went to war with Iran pledging to prevent them from getting nuclear weapons.
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Hegseth Demands Iran Turn Over Uranium Stockpiles
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, left, and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff, held a news conference at the Pentagon on Wednesday, hours into a cease-fire between the United States and Iran.
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World leaders welcome the Iran cease-fire but want the Strait of Hormuz opened soon.
Pro-government demonstrators in Iran react to the announcement of the cease-fire on Wednesday.
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How Pakistan Became Key Mediator Between U.S. and Iran
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan with President Trump at a summit in Egypt last year.
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Cease-Fire Leaves Questions Over Fate of Iran’s Uranium
President Trump has said that the United States keeps Iran’s nuclear sites under “intense satellite surveillance” and would strike them again if Iran moved to extract the enriched uranium.
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After Cease-Fire, Iranians Are Left to Pick Up the Pieces
Pro-government supporters in Tehran on Wednesday, after the cease-fire was announced.
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War Decimated Iran’s Leadership and Pushed Up a New Generation
A funeral ceremony for Alireza Tangsiri, the head of the navy for the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, and others killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes, earlier this month.
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Iran Cease-Fire Does Little to Convince Netanyahu’s Critics in Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, facing elections before the end of October, has much riding on how Israelis perceive the outcome of the war.
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Delta Expects Strong Profit Despite Higher Fuel Costs
Delta Air Lines said it expected to earn a profit of about $1 billion, before taxes, in the quarter ending in June.
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Gulf Nations Face New Reality, Whether Cease-Fire Holds or Not
Smoke rising from Dubai’s international airport after an attack last month.
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Israel Says Iran Cease-Fire Does Not Extend to Lebanon and Continues Strikes
Damage in a neighborhood of Beirut, Lebanon, after an Israeli strike on Sunday.
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How China Built Its Vast Natural Gas Stockpile
China’s natural gas stockpiles — the world’s largest above ground — helped the country cushion the shock from the war in the Middle East.
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Hours Before News of Cease-Fire, Pope Leo XIV Issues Strong Rebuke of Trump
Pope Leo XIV condemned President Trump’s threats against Iran on Tuesday.
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Iran War Timeline: Key Moments and Attacks In U.S. and Israel’s Campaign
Smoke rises from an explosion in Tehran on Feb. 28, the first day of the war.
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Trump’s Iran Threats Look Like Self-Incrimination for Potential War Crimes
President Trump addressing reporters in a briefing on Monday at the White House, before his latest threat. Asked then whether he was concerned that the attacks he has threatened could amount to war crimes, Mr. Trump said: “No, I’m not.”
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An 11th-Hour Deal
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Democrats Condemn Trump’s Iran Threats as Some Call for His Removal Via 25th Amendment
Representative Joaquin Castro, Democrat of Texas, called on President Trump’s cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove him from office.
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Trump Says He Has Agreed to a 2-Week Cease-Fire With Iran
Iranians gathered on Tuesday for a 40th-day memorial for schoolchildren killed by a U.S. airstrike.
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Some Republicans Vent Concern as Party Backs Trump’s Iran Threat
Senator Ron Johnson said President Trump would lose support if the U.S. military destroyed civilian infrastructure in Iran.
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As Deadline Nears, Confusion Over U.S.-Iran Talks Swirls Worldwide
President Trump set an 8 p.m. Tuesday deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz.
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Trump’s Threat to Wipe Out a ‘Whole Civilization’ Appalls Some Conservatives
Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin pushed back against President Trump’s threats against Iran.
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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Struggles to Justify Trump’s Threats
General Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, during a briefing on the war with Iran. He vowed that the force he leads would “always strike lawful targets.”
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U.S. Warns of Cyberattacks Tied to Iran on Water and Energy Systems
Energy systems across the United States may be the target of cyberattacks, according to the Trump administration.
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Pentagon Stays Mum on School Strike, Even as Trump Boasts of Iran Rescue
President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in the Oval Office on Thursday.
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Trump Threatens Broad Attacks in Iran. How Is Illegal Conduct in War Defined?
Airstrikes demolished Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran. The U.S. military’s law of war manual states that “the protection of civilians against the harmful effects of hostilities is one of the main purposes of the law of war.”
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U.S., Israel and Iran Accelerate Strikes Ahead of Trump’s Deadline
An Iranian synagogue was destroyed from a strike in Tehran.
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U.S. Strikes Kharg Island as Trump Raises Iran Threats to Apocalyptic Levels
Kharg Island in February before the U.S. and Israeli strikes. The United States launched a series of more than 90 strikes on the island, an Iranian oil hub, early Tuesday.
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6 Takeaways From the Story of Trump’s Decision to Go to War With Iran
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and President Trump at Mar-a-Lago, his club and residence in Florida, in December.
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How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran
The decision by President Trump to give the go-ahead to join Israel in attacking Iran was influenced by a presentation by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in February that led to a series of discussions inside the White House over the following days and weeks.
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Britain Reinforces That U.S. Cannot Use British Bases for Attacks on Iran
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been mocked by President Trump for refusing to join the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.
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Iranians Voice Shock and Defiance in Face of Trump’s Looming Deadline
A destroyed building at Sharif University in Tehran on Tuesday.
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Amid Escalating Threats, U.S. and Iran Float Ideas to End War
President Trump during a news conference at the White House on Monday.
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Gunman Killed in Shootout Near Israeli Consulate in Istanbul, Officials Say
Police officers responding after gunfire was heard near the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday.
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Weakened and Reluctant, Yemen’s Houthis Belatedly Enter War
Houthi followers and Houthi-affiliated military police take part in a pro-Iran demonstration, as the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran continues, in Sanaa, Yemen, on Monday.
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Shelly Kittleson, American Journalist Abducted in Iraq, Is Freed
Russia and China Veto Proposed U.N. Resolution to Open the Strait of Hormuz
Iranian Officials Say Indirect Talks With U.S. Ended After Trump’s Latest Threat
Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, French Couple Held in Iran, Are Free
Lebanese Mourn Couple Killed in Israeli Strike, Exposing Rift Over Hezbollah
Iran War Live Updates: U.S. Cease-Fire Tested by Strikes on Lebanon and Confusion Over Strait
Gas Prices Won’t Quickly Return to Prewar Levels, Even if the Strait of Hormuz Reopens
Pakistan Says It Hit a Military Target. Investigations Suggest It Was a Rehab Center.
‘Definitely a Sham’: As Tariffs Climb, Trade Fraud and Accounting Tricks Proliferate