Farnaz Fassihi

Ukraine’s president said rising fuel prices and deadlier drone technology showed that the fighting have spilled beyond his country’s borders. He called for steps to end to the war before winter.

President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country would not give up its civilian nuclear program, but left the door opened for diplomacy with the United States.

The United Nations is also searching for a replacement for António Guterres, who has served two terms as the secretary general and is stepping down.

Opponents derailed the agreement with a clandestine effort to attack ships in the Strait of Hormuz, regime insiders say. Iran’s president was furious when he found out.

Artemis Ghasemzadeh, who had escaped religious persecution, was deported to Panama under Trump’s immigration crackdown. Now, Canada has given her asylum.

While fighting has abated in much of Iran, near-constant U.S. airstrikes in Qeshm island and other southern spots have upended lives and livelihoods.

A flurry of diplomacy has eased tensions, officials said, after an incident risked triggering a wider war.

The yearslong effort to groom the former Iranian president as an intelligence asset culminated in a dramatic effort to take him to an Israeli safe house in the early days of the war. But the plan fell apart.

The details of the proposal were not immediately clear, but Iranian officials said that it was the only offer on the table.

American forces appeared to be focused on infrastructure, hitting bridges and a railway junction, Iranian state media reported.