Even opponents of the conflict should want to see Iran defanged and defeated.

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Members of the United Nations Security Council condemned deadly attacks on U.N. peacekeepers in south Lebanon and called for de-escalation between Israel and Hezbollah.

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Even opponents of the conflict should want to see Iran defanged and defeated.

President Trump suggested that Iran’s current leaders were “much more reasonable” as he sought to show progress in his war aims. Iran’s power structure appears firmly in control despite a month of U.S.-Israeli attacks.

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Joseph Kabila, the former president, faces the death penalty after the government convicted him of treason last year. He says the charges are bogus.

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A costly war will make Iran’s enemies think twice before attacking again.

Propaganda and disinformation have flooded the internet in a sophisticated effort to undermine support for U.S. and Israeli attacks.

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Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay by Phil Klay. Also: Educating undocumented students; energy realities; calling all teenagers.

The country’s faith in its ability to shape the world to its liking is a much older malady.

The country’s faith in its ability to shape the world to its liking is a much older malady.

In one swoop, it overturned the conditions for conciliation.

Pax Americana, meet Lax Americana.

America shouldn’t fight a war like this.

The war with Iran is costing America. That money, the Opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof argues, could be better spent ending childhood malnutrition, screening for cancer or providing free college tuition.

Landing in hostile territory and quickly extracting Iran’s highly enriched uranium would be next to impossible.

How the conflict could further destabilize the region.

Be careful what you wish for.

The U.S. cannot both end the war immediately and claim victory. It is one or the other.

President Trump warned that he could postpone a meeting set to begin in just over two weeks if China refuses to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Let’s hope it doesn’t take another Sept. 11 to snap the F.B.I.’s leadership into action.

President Trump has urged China, Britain, France, Japan and South Korea to send warships to help reopen the waterway, even though they are not involved in the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran.

Lebanon needs to be rid of Hezbollah, but not at the cost of Israeli occupation.

The United States helped create safeguards to limit the brutality of war, and now I fear President Trump is dismantling them.

In a 40-year career as an international correspondent for The New York Times, Mr. Burns had a talent for capturing the sweep of history in intricate detail.

The war in Iran is a victory for the Israeli prime minister.

European politicians have colluded in their dependency on a rogue America.

Four years after the Russian invasion of Ukraine sent energy prices soaring, the war in Iran is posing another challenge to efforts to revive European factories.

Countries targeted by Iranian drones are eager to tap into Ukrainian expertise to shoot them down.

Brazil, China and Russia all denounced the U.S.-Israeli attacks, but other nations in the BRICS group haven’t, even though Iran is a fellow member.