Israel has conducted roughly 150 strikes on Iran over two days, while Iranian forces have fired roughly 200 ballistic missiles at Israeli territory in addition to scores of drones, according to an Israeli military official.

The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah was long considered Iran’s first line of defense in case of a war with Israel.

Maj. Gen. Yadlin, who flew in the 1981 Osirak reactor strike, explains why Israel's current operation against Iran represents a complex, multi-week campaign.

U.S. stocks opened sharply lower and oil prices jumped after Israel launched airstrikes against Iran. Israel’s defense minister Israel Katz declared a special state of emergency following the attack.

The attack was a stiff challenge for Israel’s air-defense system, which has intercepted projectiles fired from Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Iran since the start of the war Oct. 7, 2023. They have ranged from short-range rockets to medium-range missiles to attack drones to ballistic missiles like those fired Friday night.

President Trump joked that Iranian officials killed in Israel's airstrike clearly did not die of an illness, warning that Iran should have heeded his warning.