After releasing a video statement in the early hours of Saturday revealing that U.S. forces were carrying out a series of airstrikes on Iran, President Donald Trump quickly turned to one of his favorite pastimes – complaining about his 2020 election defeat to Joe Biden.

Four days in, the Iran War is raging on and spiraling out, and though President Donald Trump has said the U.S. operation may only last weeks, there’s no way of knowing how long the widening conflict will last,

President Trump’s attack on Iran is confusing the MAGA base that once bragged that he never started any wars, testing the limits of their trust in the president’s foreign policy judgement. There are,

For Americans, the war began in 1979, when Iranian students seized the US embassy in Tehran and held 52 diplomats hostage for 444 days. For Iranians, it began with US support for the Shah and its subsequent backing of Iraq throughout the 1980-1988 Iran -Iraq war.

Marc Elias and other Democrats pushed baseless Trump-Russia collusion claims in 2016. Now they are denying that Iran sought to meddle in the 2020 and 2024 elections to hurt Trump.

Readers asked their biggest questions about the war with Iran. Our journalists break it down.

The U.S. and Iran have a long history of tensions, including a CIA-led campaign to topple Iran's prime minister in 1953 and the taking of American hostages in 1979.

And will Trump's Republican MAGA base support his strikes on Iran? In the biggest political gamble of his presidency so far, Donald Trump has defended his decision for the United States to bomb Iran - alongside Israel - as a “noble” mission to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons,