Follow live updates and the latest news coverage as Iran vows revenge for the U.S. warship sinking, Trump and Israel strike Tehran, and Americans are stranded in the Middle East.

Republicans in the House of Representatives blocked a war powers resolution that would've immediately stopped U.S. hostilities against Iran.

President Trump said he must have a role in choosing Iran's next leader and called the son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei "unacceptable."

Four of six U.S. service members killed in the Iran war died when a drone struck a port in Kuwait on Sunday, U.S.

The two schools that were damaged on Thursday are in Parand, a city southwest of the Iranian capital. Not long after the strikes, an image of a large, gray smoke plume against a clear blue sky began appearing online. The Times verified that image as well and determined that the plume originated from the area where the two schools are located.

Four Democrats joined most Republicans in rejecting the measure.

U.S. crude oil hit as much as $80 per barrel Thursday, as the escalating Iran war enters its seventh day and continues disrupting global fuel supplies.

Top officials have been heavily targeted, but experts and officials say the ruling structure in Tehran has remained surprisingly resilient.

Iran doesn’t want to talk. It doesn’t want to parley. And it’s not sitting down with President Donald Trump. Here's what may be next in the Iran war.

China is not feeling the shock of war in the Middle East - yet. But it is feeling the ripples.

The U.S. and Israel are striking a much wider array of targets in Iran than they did during 12 days of war last summer, when their focus was on the country’s nuclear enrichment sites.

The U.S.-Israeli attack that ended Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s iron-fisted rule of Iran also created a power vacuum in the Islamic Republic for the first time in decades, with a group of clerics convening to cast their votes on who would succeed him.