Hundreds of civilians, mostly in Iran, have been killed by dueling airstrikes despite international pleas for de-escalation.

Three people were killed in a missile strike at Israel's largest oil refinery, a day after the facility came under [a barrage that partially knocked it offline](

The U.S. president faces pushback over the risk of U.S. involvement in the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran.

The Iranian regime faces pressure as Israel strikes military targets, with Iranian Americans advocating for the overthrow of what one Iranian American describes as a "paper tiger regime."

President Trump rejected an Israeli plan in recent days to kill Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a senior U.S. official told USA TODAY.

Lapid made a speech last month to Israel's parliament, which is called the Knesset, that marked 600 days since the start of the war in Gaza. Lapid slammed Netanyahu for bringing a conflict upon Israel that didn't exist during his own brief time in office.

Iran has failed to organize ground-based air defenses in ways that could have significantly impeded the ability of Israeli aircraft to operate over its territory. This was, above all, the result of a fatal political miscalculation.

The missile exchanges dominate global market focus as it intensified fears of energy supply disruptions. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures climbed as high as $74.78 per barrel Sunday evening, but eased back to below $72.54 per barrel this morning, though that remains 11% above where it traded last Monday.