The latest armed conflict between Israel and Iran is the most significant showdown between the two West Asian archrivals in decades.

Israel launched Operation Rising Lion against Iran's nuclear facilities in the early hours of Friday morning, and Newsweek maps show where airstrikes took place. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attacks were "a targeted military operation to roll back the Iranian threat to Israel's very survival.

After much back and fro posturing, Israel finally attacked Iran in the wee hours on June 13, 2025. Their last skirmish was on October 26, 2024, when Israel retaliated for Iran's October 1, 2024, missile strike that comprised some 200 missiles,

Following days of heightened tension, Israel launched a large attack against Iran in the early hours of Jun. 13, 2025, targeting leadership, nuclear

Israel struck at the heart of Iran’s nuclear, missile and military complex early Friday, in an unprecedented attack that reportedly killed three of Iran’s most powerful figures and plunges the wider Middle East into dangerous new territory.

Iran launched more than a hundred attack unmanned aerial vehicles towards Israel, the media of the Jewish state reported in these hours, citing representatives of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The attack followed the fact that on the night of June

Israeli spies infiltrated the heart of Iran before Friday morning’s Operation “Rising Lion” airstrikes and damaged the country’s missile infrastructure and air defenses in

Israeli fighter jets, including the F-35s, unleashed devastating airstrikes on Iran earlier this week, triggering the Israel-Iran war.

Jennings, 47, had embarked on a trip to the region — his first — to tour major cities like Jerusalem and Tel Aviv as well as kibbutz Nir Oz, where approximately one-quarter of its 400 residents were killed by Hamas in the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, as well as the site of the Nova music festival massacre, where 378 were killed.

Jonathan Conricus, a former IDF spokesperson, says Iran is "the weakest that I've ever seen it" after Israel's launch of Operation Rising Lion.