A confidential intelligence community assessment delivered to the White House also finds that Iran retains a substantial missile and drone arsenal.

Experts say covert transfers at sea are used to obscure the origins of oil that left Iranian ports and the Gulf of Oman before the blockade was imposed.

President Donald Trump wants a lavish welcome in Beijing for a summit with Xi Jinping next week. But the specter of the war in Iran looms large.

Tense relations soured further after Ukraine accused Israel of buying grain harvested by Russia in occupied territory. Meanwhile, Russia and Iran have grown closer.

Relations between the United States and the Vatican are at a low point over President Donald Trump’s attacks on Leo, who is a leading critic of the war in Iran.

The airstrike on the Haret Hreik neighborhood targeted the leader of the Radwan forces, Hezbollah’s elite and battle-hardened fighting unit, Israeli authorities said.

It’s the third consecutive month that multiple models have predicted that a potentially record-breaking El Niño could drive global temperatures to new highs.

A cluster of cases aboard the ship off Cape Verde may be linked to a type of hantavirus found in Argentina that can spread from person to person, the World Health Organization said.

More than 140 people remain on the Hondius, which will take about three days to reach the Spanish archipelago for screening. A local official has criticized the plan.

Ilya Remeslo was put in a psychiatric hospital after criticizing Vladimir Putin. Now free, he said that he will not stop his crusade against the Russian president.

The criticism of the pontiff’s stance on Iran highlighted what Vatican officials have described as an unprecedented low in relations with the United States.

As talks continue and proposals are exchanged, Washington and Tehran still disagree on what has been agreed.