Israel has gutted Iran's nuclear and military leadership with airstrikes that leave a weakened Tehran with few options to retaliate, including an all-out war that it is neither equipped for nor likely to win,

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.

Israel's targeted strikes killed two top Iranian military leaders: Gen. Hossein Salami, leader of Iran's paramilitary and Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces.

The editor-in-chief of Haaretz on how President Trump enabled Israel to carry out an attack years in the making.

The attack comes after decades of mutual hostility and a long-running shadow war of covert strikes and sabotage.

Iran’s “Axis of Resistance,” the network of militias it has fostered in the Middle East to help it fight Israel, has become seriously degraded, experts say.

"Our support for Gaza and our defense of our country against the Zionist aggression against it has continued," a Houthi source told Newsweek.

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister held calls with counterparts across the Middle East to avoid a wider flare-up.

In ordering a preemptive strike aimed at significantly setting back Iran’s nuclear program, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was following in the footsteps of two of his predecessors. Menachem Begin ordered an attack in 1981 that destroyed Iraq’s nuclear reactor.