Shapiro served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East until January—charged with, among other things, considering scenarios in which tensions between Israel and Iran escalated into all-out war and preparing U.

Why Israel and Iran’s escalation is unprecedented – and what it means for a teetering Middle East - ON THE GROUND: The deep fear is that this war between Israel and Iran - two nations lying 2,000 km apart - will play out on the ground of all the countries in between,

Gen. Hossein Salami was the chief of one of the country’s most powerful centers, and his death was a tough blow to Iran’s embattled leadership, which has had a series of setbacks in the past 20 months of Middle Eastern war and unrest. Salami rose to power six years ago and had a history of threatening the U.S. and Israel.

Plus, Sen. Alex Padilla disputes the White House and Kristi Noem's account of what happened before he was forcibly removed from a DHS event and handcuffed.

For years, Israel and Iran engaged in a shadow war, a series of mostly quiet, often deniable attacks, with Iran frequently operating through allied proxy groups.

In Netanyahu’s seven-minute speech, recorded in English, and released by the Israeli prime minister’s YouTube handle, said his government feared a “nuclear Holocaust” as he also referred to persecutio