President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the White House in Washington, on Monday, April 6, 2026. President Trump presented new details of the rescue of an American airman over the weekend in cinematic terms at a news conference on Monday. (Tom Brenner/The New York Times) By ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS, ERIKA SOLOMON and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA President Donald Trump on Monday escalated his threats to devastate Iran if it does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz, even as he ag

People walk in front of a billboard depicting captured U.S. aircraft in a net in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, April 5, 2026. After Iran shot down a U.S. plane and U.S. forces pulled off a risky ground operation to extricate a stranded airman, both sides claimed victory. That confidence could fuel further escalation. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By ERIKA SOLOMON Iran’s downing of an American fighter plane and the dramatic U.S. mission that followed to rescue a stranded airman

Members of the Kenya MSS patrol the National Port Authority in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sept. 25, 2024. Gangs tore through several rural communities last weekend, underscoring the challenges that will face the new, U.N.-backed Gang Suppression Force starting to enter the country. (Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times) By ANDRÉ PAULTRE and FRANCES ROBLES Ilres Théophile, a farmer living north of Haiti’s capital, said he woke in the middle of the night last Sunday to the unmist

By ERIKA SOLOMON, FALIH HASSAN and PRANAV BASKAR A U.S. journalist was kidnapped in Baghdad by “unknown individuals” Tuesday evening, and government security forces have begun operations to find her and track down the abductors, according to Iraq’s Interior Ministry. The freelance journalist was identified as Shelly Kittleson by two Iraqi security officials. She has worked for various news organizations, and one of them, Al-Monitor news outlet, for which Kittleson is a contri

A drag performance in an underground parking garage that is used as a public bomb shelter in Jerusalem on Tuesday night, March 31, 2026. (Amit Elkayam/The New York Times) By ABDI LATIF DAHIR, MEGAN SPECIA and ERIKA SOLOMON President Donald Trump said he was considering pulling the United States out of NATO over the war with Iran, as he heaps pressure on allies to manage the fallout of a conflict he signaled he would wind down in two or three weeks. In an interview with Britai

By IVAN NECHEPURENKO A Russian military transport plane crashed in Crimea, killing all 29 people on board, Russian investigators said Wednesday. The cause was most likely a technical malfunction, they said. The plane, an Antonov An-26, a Soviet-designed aircraft used by the Russian army to carry cargo and personnel, went down Tuesday near a village in the southern part of Crimea, about 15 miles from the Black Sea coast, the Russian investigators said in a statement. Twenty-tw

President Donald Trump during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026. Threatening to pull out of NATO, Trump portrayed the alliance as a “paper tiger” and said Europe was on its own in trying to secure the Strait of Hormuz, in an interview published in a British newspaper on April 1.(Doug Mills/The New York Times) By MICHAEL D SHEAR President Donald Trump lashed out at th

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, delivers updates on Iran at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By JOHN ISMAY, GREG JAFFE, HELENE COOPER and AURELIEN BREEDEN Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth conceded Tuesday that Iran retained the ability to retaliate after a monthlong U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign but repeated claims that Iran’s military capabilities had been crippled, in his first public briefing on the

By MARK LANDLER and CATHERINE PORTER President Donald Trump lashed out again at European allies Tuesday for their refusal to get more involved in the Iran war. He accused France of denying permission to U.S. warplanes to fly over its territory and challenged Britain to “go get your own oil” by forcibly reopening the Strait of Hormuz. The French government said it was “surprised” by Trump’s claim, made on his Truth Social account, but did not issue an explicit denial. A French

From right: first lady Melania Trump, President Donald Trump, King Charles III, and Queen Camilla arrive at the State Banquet for President Donald Trump’s visit at Windsor Castle in Windsor, England, Sept. 17, 2025. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By MEGAN SPECIA King Charles III will travel to the United States for an official state visit in April, Buckingham Palace confirmed on Tuesday. The trip — which the king will carry out on behalf of the British government — had been