WASHINGTON — Some 140 American service members have been wounded since start of the Iran war, with eight of them “severely injured” and receiving medical care, the Pentagon said Tuesday. “The vast majority of these injuries have been minor, and 108 service members have already returned to duty,” Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement. The…
The White House is aware that Gulf countries have said they’re running short on missile interceptors, and that they’ve said they’re having to choose which objects to blow up — and which not to — multiple sources told CBS News. The White House has discussed the matter, the sources said. CBS News’ Margaret Brennan first…
I think that a lot of people draw a moral distinction between targeting civilians and civilians dying as collateral damage in the course of a war. And I agree that that can be a useful moral distinction. But, if you’re dealing with people who quite clearly do not care about civilian lives, and have tried…
TEHRAN — The elevation of Mojtaba Khamenei to the mantle of supreme leader brings to Iran’s top job a hard-line figure who is most firmly his father’s son in charting a defiant path for the country. “Mojtaba Khamenei’s elevation is not just a succession, it is a provocation — a blunt middle finger to Trump,” said Ali…
A currency dealer monitors exchange rates in front of a big screen showing South Korea’s benchmark stock index (C) and the Korean won/USD exchange rate (R) in a foreign exchange dealing room at the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul on April 9, 2025. Jung Yeon-je | Afp | Getty Images South Korea’s Kospi opened more…
Dozens of civilians, including children, wounded by an Iranian drone strike in Bahrain. France deploying warships to secure shipping commerce in the Strait of Hormuz. Australia taking heat from President Trump over its handling of the Iranian women’s soccer team. Markets across Asia plunging as the price of oil surged. Lebanon reporting half a million…
Australia’s military support would help the Gulf countries defend themselves against unprovoked attacks from Iran, Albanese said, stressing Australia was “not a protagonist.” Australia will deploy a military surveillance aircraft to the Middle East and send missiles to the United Arab Emirates but will not put troops on the ground in Iran, Prime Minister Anthony…
Mojtaba’s appointment “is a final act of resistance by the late Khamenei from his grave,” Ellie Geranmayeh, an Iran expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations, told me. “It also sends a strong message to Trump that his bombings and threats are not delivering the regime change he seemingly wants.” Before the war, in…
President Trump weighed in Monday on the plight of Iran’s national women’s soccer team, who were caught up in the geopolitical ramifications of the U.S.-Israeli war on their home country as they participated in the women’s Asian Cup in Australia, offering them asylum in the U.S. There were calls for Australia to offer the women…
Mojtaba Khamenei, who was named Iran’s new supreme leader over the weekend, shares something in common with President Donald Trump: They have both amassed global real-estate empires. The son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an airstrike when the war began, represents the Islamic Republic’s first hereditary succession. The younger Khamenei is close…