People walk past a damaged building after U.S.-Israeli airstrikes in Tehran, March 3, 2026. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine has offered to share his country’s expertise in defending against Iranian-designed drones. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By CASSANDRA VINOGRAD The crisis in the Middle East has started to reverberate in Ukraine, putting peace talks with Russia on hold and raising fears in Kyiv of diminished military support. After the United States and Is

Members of the Ecuadorean Navy during a raid on a suspected drug gang in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on Oct. 18, 2025. As Washington made combating fentanyl a priority, cocaine trafficking has surged. Nowhere have the ripples been felt like in Ecuador, where criminal groups have run rampant. (Daniele Volpe/The New York Times) By ERIC SCHMITT and LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍ The United States and Ecuador have launched joint military operations against “designated terrorist organizations” in the

By JASON HOROWITZ For more than a year, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain has positioned himself as the leader of Europe’s left-wing resistance to President Donald Trump. As Trump scaled up deportations, Sánchez gave migrants a pathway to residency. As the president championed American tech companies, Sánchez sought to restrict them. And this past weekend, Sánchez refused to let American warplanes use Spain as a launchpad for strikes on Iran, leading Trump to threaten to

Men pray in Tehran on Wednesday, March 4, 2026, at the site of a police station that was destroyed by a U.S.-Israeli airstrike. The U.S. military has hit more than 2,000 targets, a barrage that appears to have severely degraded Iran’s ability to fight back by firing missiles at Israel, U.S. bases or other American allies in the region. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By GREG JAFFE A devastating air campaign is pounding the Iranian military and leaving it nearly incapable

President Miguel Díaz-Canel of Cuba addresses the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times) By LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍ and DAVID C. ADAMS President Miguel Díaz-Canel of Cuba called on Monday for an “urgent” transformation of the country’s economic model, according to Cuban state media, as Cuba confronts an oil blockade by the Trump administration that has deepened a humanitarian crisis on the is

By AARON BOXERMAN and CHRISTINA GOLDBAUM Israel said Tuesday that its military had seized areas of southern Lebanon as part of its escalating conflict with Hezbollah as the Iran-backed armed group fired small volleys of drones at the country in a second day of fighting. Israeli forces “moved forward and took over strategic areas” in Lebanon while ordering nearby Lebanese towns to evacuate, expanding the Israeli military’s zone of control close to Israel’s northern border, sai

Sens. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), right, and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) confer behind a sheet of paper during testimony from Elbridge Colby, the undersecretary of defense for policy, during a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By JIM TANKERSLEY, SHAWN McCREESH, ANTON TROIANOVSKI and JOE RENNISON President Donald Trump said Tuesday that officials the United States had eyed as potential new

By MALACHY BROWNE, EPHRAT LIVNI and SANAM MAHOOZI At least 175 people, most of them likely children, were killed Saturday in a strike on a girls’ elementary school in southern Iran, health officials and Iranian state media said. The search for survivors in the rubble of the Shajarah Tayyebeh school in the southern town of Minab ended Sunday, according to Mohammad Radmehr, the governor of Minab, Iranian state media reported. It appeared to be the deadliest attack in the ongoin

The remains of a police station are searched after airstrikes in Tehran, Iran, on Monday, March 2, 2026. Iran and allied militias, including Hezbollah, attacked Israel and U.S. targets, and Israel struck in Lebanon. Top U.S. officials talked of new attacks and an extended campaign. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By SHAWN McCREESH, TYLER PAGER, ERIC SCHMITT, HELENE COOPER and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA President Donald Trump said Monday that the United States would continue atta

President Donald Trump returns to the White House in Washington, March 1, 2026. President Trump has prevented Venezuela from sending oil to Cuba, a major trading partner. Many Cubans are wondering if the Trump administration plans to target their country’s Communist government next. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times) By ED AUGUSTIN, FRANCES ROBLES and DAVID C. ADAMS Plainclothes counterintelligence agents from Cuba’s Interior Ministry knocked on the doors of Communist Part