Iran launched the attack in response to a strike widely blamed on Israel on an Iranian consular building in Syria earlier this month which killed two Iranian generals.
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Booms, sirens heard in Israel after Iran launches ballistic missiles, drones in unprecedented attack
U.S. forces downed some of the Iran-launched drones flying toward Israel, according to defense officials.
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard seizes a container ship near Strait of Hormuz amid tensions with Israel
The seizure followed a suspected Israeli strike this month on an Iranian consular building in Syria that killed 12 people, including a senior Guard general.
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Israel threatens to strike Iran directly if Iran launches attack from its territory
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reiterated early Wednesday a promise to retaliate against Israel over the attack on its consulate in Damascus earlier this month.
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Israel pulls troops from one city. But clearing Hamas from Rafah is still a goal
Regional tensions have threatened to draw the Middle East into a wider conflict as Israel’s war against Hamas marks six months.
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Syria says an Israeli airstrike destroyed Iran’s consular building in Damascus
The strike on the Iranian consulate building, which killed several people, could mark an escalation of the Israeli military’s ongoing targeting of Iranian military officials and allies in Syria.
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U.S. blames group of Iran-backed militias for deadly drone attack in Jordan as it weighs reprisals
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq is an umbrella group of Iran-backed militias that includes the militant group Kataib Hezbollah.
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Iran threatens to respond to any U.S. strikes as Biden weighs reaction to Jordan base attack
Concerns remain that any additional strikes could further inflame a region already roiled by Israel’s ongoing war on Hamas and the ongoing attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on shipping in the Red Sea.
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Three U.S. troops killed and 25 injured in drone strike by Iran-backed militia in Jordan
President Biden said the United States ‘will hold all those responsible to account at a time and in a manner our choosing.’
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Official: U.S. warned Iran ISIS-K was preparing attack ahead of Kerman blasts
Iranian state media did not acknowledge the U.S. giving Tehran the information, and Iran’s mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment.