W hen Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at Mar-a-Lago in late December, he had a surprise message for President Trump: Israel would begin weaning itself off U.S. military aid. At first,

Israel’s military said it has killed over 1,900 Iranian soldiers and commanders in “Operation Roaring Lion,” not counting those killed in U.S. airstrikes, since the start of the war on Feb. 28. U.S. military officials said the total number of sorties on the first day of “Operation Epic Fury” was twice the number carried out

March 8 (Reuters) - The Israeli military warned it would continue pursuing every successor of Iran's slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran. In a post on X in Farsi,

Warplanes, missiles and bombs haven’t been enough on their own to remove one government and replace it with another. The U.S. military has upended governments in the past, but all of those operations have required troops or at least an indigenous force.

Iran has aimed to keep the much more powerful US military and its allies off balance through proxies in Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen. Hezbollah in Lebanon, for example, has fired missiles and drones into northern Israel since March 2 as part of Iran’s retaliatory strikes.

JERUSALEM, March 12 (Reuters) - The Israeli military struck checkpoints in Tehran operated by the Basij, it said on Thursday, as part of an effort to weaken the rule of Iran's clerical leaders. The Basij militia is a part-time paramilitary force under the control of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that is often used to quell protests inside Iran.