A relative points to a hole in the roof of Mohammed al-Hassouni's family home. It was caused by an Iranian missile fragment that injured his 7-year-old daughter on the night Iran attacked Israel. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Marjane Satrapi, a graphic novelist, holds her latest book Woman, Life, Freedom, in her home in Paris, France. Eleanor Beardsley/ NPR hide caption
Iran women's protests are the focus of 'Persepolis' author Marjane Satrapi's new book
The U.S.-operated GPS has falsely located planes, people and ships, sometimes placing them at the Beirut's international airport. Hassan Ammar/AP hide caption
Israel fakes GPS locations to deter attacks, but it also throws off planes and ships
Terry Anderson, who was the longest held American hostage in Lebanon, grins with his 6-year-old daughter Sulome, Dec. 4, 1991, as they leave the U.S. Ambassador's residence in Damascus, Syria, following Anderson's release. Santiago Lyon/AP hide caption
Iranian worshippers walk past a mural showing the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, right, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, and Basij paramilitary force, in an anti-Israeli gathering after their Friday prayer in Tehran, Iran, on Friday. Vahid Salemi/AP hide caption
Demonstrators wave a huge Iranian flag in an anti-Israeli gathering in front of an anti-Israeli banner on the wall of a building at the Felestin (Palestine) Square in Tehran, Iran, on Monday. Vahid Salemi/AP hide caption
A billboard in central Tehran, Iran, depicts named Iranian ballistic missiles in service, with text in Arabic reading "the honest [person's] promise" and text in Persian reading "Israel is weaker than a spider's web," on April 15. Iran attacked Israel over the weekend with missiles, which it said was a response to a deadly strike on its consulate building in Damascus, Syria. Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Israeli Iron Dome air defense system launches to intercept missiles fired from Iran, in central Israel this past weekend. Tomer Neuberg/AP hide caption
Iran's attack on Israel is a major escalation. What comes next for the region?
An anti-missile system operates after Iran launched drones and missiles toward Israel, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel, April 14. Amir Cohen/REUTERS hide caption
This image made from a video provided to The Associated Press by a Mideast defense official shows a helicopter raid targeting a vessel near the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday. AP hide caption
President Biden briefly spoke to reporters about Iran in the South Court auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Friday. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption
Emergency and security personnel extinguish a fire at the site of strikes that hit a building annexed to the Iranian embassy in Syria's capital Damascus on April 1. Iran blames Israel for the attack. Louai Beshara/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Emergency services work at a building hit by an air strike in Damascus, Syria, Monday. Iran's consulate in Damascus was demolished and two Iranian generals were among those killed, Syrian and Iranian officials said. Omar Sanadiki/AP hide caption
Iranian officials accuse Israel of a deadly attack on Iran's consulate in Syria
Houthi fighters march during a rally of support for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and against the U.S. strikes on Yemen, outside Sanaa, on Jan. 22. AP hide caption
Fighters carry the coffin of Abu Baqir al-Saadi during his funeral on Feb. 8. He was a senior commander in Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed Iraqi militia, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad. Ameer Al-Mohammedawi/dpa via Getty Images hide caption
People, rescuers and security forces gather around a vehicle hit by a drone strike, reportedly killing three people, including two leaders of a pro-Iran group, in Baghdad on Wednesday. Murtaja Lateef/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
U.S. drone strike kills a leader of an Iran-backed militia in Iraq
Houthi fighters stage a rally in support of the Palestinians in Gaza and against the U.S.-led airstrikes on Yemen, in Sanaa, Yemen, on Jan. 29. Osamah Abdulrahman/AP hide caption
The U.S. is demanding Iran rein in its proxy groups. Is that actually possible?
U.S. Central Command released this undated photo as part of its announcement of renewed airstrikes against Houthi targets on Saturday. U.S. Central Command hide caption
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden attend the dignified transfer of the remains of three U.S. service members killed in a drone attack on a U.S. military outpost in Jordan, at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Friday. Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
U.S. hits Iranian proxies in Iraq, Syria in retaliation for deadly strikes
President Biden watches the dignified transfer of the remains of the three U.S. service members killed in the drone attack in Jordan, at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del., on Feb. 2. Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A satellite view of the U.S. military outpost known as Tower 22, in Rukban, Rwaished District, Jordan, in October last year. Planet Labs via Reuters hide caption
The U.S. Department of Justice seal is seen on a lectern. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
This photo released by the Iranian Defense Ministry on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024, claims to show a satellite carrier is launched at the Imam Khomeini Spaceport in Iran's rural Semnan province. Iran said Sunday it successfully launched three satellites into space, the latest for a program that the West says improves Tehran's ballistic missiles. AP hide caption
This Dec. 29, 2019, aerial file photo taken from a helicopter shows Ain al-Asad air base in the western Anbar desert, Iraq. Nasser Nasser/AP hide caption