Regional powers met in Pakistan to discuss how to end the fighting in the Middle East after about 2,500 U.S. Marines arrived in the region and Iranian-backed Houthi rebels entered the monthlong war.

Iran's parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf has emerged as a possible U.S. contact for talks even as the Iranian leadership remains under fire during the war.

President Donald Trump on Saturday says the U.S. will “obliterate” Iranian power plants if it doesn’t fully open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours.

Iran is threatening recreational and tourist sites worldwide and insisting it is still building missiles three weeks into an escalating war in the Middle East.

Explosions are sounding in Dubai after the United Arab Emirates reopened its airspace following a brief closure amid incoming attacks from Iran.

Turkey’s foreign minister says diplomacy between the U.S. and Iran is stalled, but he thinks quiet back-channel talks remain possible.

North Korea on Saturday has fired about 10 ballistic missiles toward the eastern sea, South Korea’s military says, staging its own show of force as the rival South conducts a joint military exercise with the United States.

Iran has warned people to evacuate three major ports in the United Arab Emirates, including the busiest in the Middle East, as its war with the U.S. and Israel enters its third week.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. bombed military sites on an island vital to Iran’s oil network.

The Trump administration is denouncing CNN for airing a portion of the new Iranian supreme leader's first public statement since he got the job.

Iran’s secretive new leader has issued his first public statements, resolving to keep fighting.

Iran’s new supreme leader vowed to keep attacking the country's Gulf Arab neighbors and using its threat of closing the Strait of Hormuz as leverage.

An intelligence assessment completed shortly before the U.S. and Israel launched a war in Iran determined that military intervention is unlikely to result in regime change.

U.S. President Donald Trump says the war against Iran could be short-lived.

U.S. President Donald Trump says that the war with Iran began because that country was starting work on a new site for developing material for nuclear weapons.

The Iran war has upended oil production and shipping across the Middle East, straining energy supplies worldwide.

Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who was named as his successor, had long been considered a contender to the post even before an Israeli strike killed his father and despite the fact he had never been elected or appointed to a government position.

Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Iran’s late supreme leader, has been named his successor.

Iranian state TV says Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the country’s late supreme leader, has been named his successor.

Explosions are sending up plumes of smoke in Iran's capital city as the United States says the most intense bombing of the weeklong campaign is coming.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he should be involved in choosing Iran’s next supreme leader.

Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, long has been considered a contender to the post of the country’s next paramount ruler — even before his father's death though he’s never being elected nor appointed to a government position.