Israel, Iran, the Red Sea and US forces in the Middle East.
Tehran’s leaders called the Republican defeat a verdict on the war. Its military went further, threatening the Bab al-Mandeb strait. Trump says he has no immediate plans to strike.
US officials say limited strikes on the largest island in the Strait of Hormuz answered Iranian missile fire at American aircraft and were part of a quiet series of similar attacks in recent weeks.
Eight months after the first strikes, here are the figures that define the US-Iran war on Election Day: what it has cost, who has died, what the blockade has done and how empty Hormuz has become.
Officials and reporting point to Pickaxe Mountain, energy sites and Iran’s missile and drone stocks. Iran’s leader says any response will have no geographic limits. Here is what is known, and what is not.
Mojtaba Khamenei told commanders any response to a new attack would have no geographic limit. Iran has received the vice president’s letter but has not answered, three days before the US midterms.
Iran says at least four tankers hit mines after taking routes it calls unauthorized. A British maritime agency says one ship was attacked by a small boat. Washington says the main lanes are clear.
The new estimate is $9.6 billion higher than Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s July figure and still leaves out the cost of fixing bases hit by Iranian missiles.
Likud is the biggest party again, but Netanyahu’s bloc has 53 seats, eight short of a majority. The opposition can only get past 61 with Arab parties most of its leaders have ruled out.
Trump told an Iowa rally the US will have Iran ‘finished very soon’ and that ‘one way or the other’ the war will be done, while UN Ambassador Mike Waltz said the war could run another year. Here is what we know and what we don’t.
Iran’s floating oil reserve in Asian waters, which kept Chinese buyers supplied through months of U.S. blockade, is now empty, according to Kpler data cited by The Wall Street Journal.