By LEILY NIKOUNAZAR U.S. airstrikes targeting parts of southern Iran rattled Iranians’ nerves last week, they said in interviews, and destroyed key links between one province and the rest of the country. Marzieh, a resident of the port city of Bandar Abbas, said that she had heard from friends that the roads around the city had been “devastated.” Marzieh and other Iranians interviewed gave only their first names for fear of government reprisal. Overnight strikes damaged a tun

Premier Doug Ford of Ontario after a news conference in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, on Saturday, July 18, 2026. Out-of-control wildfires in Ontario continued to force evacuations and affect major cities in Canada and the United States on Saturday as the province’s leader made his first visit near the devastated area. (Cole Burston/The New York Times) By THE NEW YORK TIMES Wildfires in Canada have cast smoke across a swath of the country and the United States, polluting the

By MITRA TAJ Six people were killed and at least 20 were injured by an earthquake that hit the central highland region of Peru, authorities said Sunday. The quake struck in the Junín region, near the rural district of Chongos Bajos, at 9:24 p.m. Saturday, damaging or destroying dozens of houses and forcing about 300 people to take refuge in a sports stadium because of aftershocks, according to Peru’s National Institute of Civil Defense. The quake also damaged the town’s 16th-

People inspect the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike, which killed five, including three children, that targeted a residential apartment building in Gaza City, on July 18, 2026. (Saher Alghorra/The New York Times) By AARON BOXERMAN, YAN ZHUAN, HARI RAJ and ERIC SCHMITT The U.S. military announced Sunday that another service member had been killed in action, bringing the number of American military personnel who have died in the conflict with Iran to 17, as the two sides edged

Lazaro Figueroa Tamayo, left, and Luis Silva Aldana, Adrián Silva Guerra’s father, at the Silva Guerra family home in Santiago de Cuba on May 8, 2026. (Lisette Poole González/The New York Times) By ED AUGUSTIN Adrián Silva Guerra saw the streetlight flicker back to life. It was 2:08 a.m. on a Thursday. An electric repairman, Silva Guerra quickly got up from his concrete stoop and went inside, leaving the front door ajar so the night air would drift over his 7-year-old son sle

Traffic passes Enghelab Square ahead of the funeral for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader when he was assassinated in a joint Israeli/U.S. airstrike operation, in Tehran, Iran, July 3, 2026. (Emile Ducke/The New York Times) By MAX BEARAK, SHIRIN HAKIM, FARNAZ FASSIHI and RAVI MATTU The United States launched a new set of attacks against Iran on Thursday, even as the two countries signaled that they were open to diplomacy to end a war that has, for now, narrowed to

Venezuela interim President Delcy Rodriguez in Caracas, Venezuela, April 30, 2026. A list of alleged crimes has not prevented Diosdado Cabello, and other Venezuelan officials, from working with a U.S. government that once hounded them. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times) By ANATOLY KURMANAEV The United States has put a $25 million bounty on his head. Federal prosecutors say he trafficked tons of cocaine. The U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions for embezzlement and the U.N. accuses

Mourners follow the truck carrying the coffin of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the former supreme leader of Iran, in the holy city of Mashhad, Iran, on Thursday afternoon, July 9, 2026. The latest phase of the U.S. military campaign in Iran has a new focus, but not necessarily a clearer strategy. (Emile Ducke/The New York Times) By JULIAN E. BARNES, ERIC SCHMITT and DAVID E. SANGER The Trump administration has lurched back into a war against Iran that had never really ended. When t

A partially collapsed residential building that was damaged during twin earthquakes in La Guaira, Venezuela, June 25, 2026. Any large earthquake can be dangerous, but the residents of Caracas and Venezuelan coastal cities such as La Guaira and Catia La Mar were victims of several unlucky factors. (Adriana Loureiro Fernández/The New York Times) By JAMES GLANZ, HELMUTH ROSALES, MARCO HERNÁNDEZ and LILY COWPER Any large earthquake can be dangerous, but the residents of Caracas a

President Donald Trump during a meeting with Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi of Iraq in the Oval Office on Tuesday, July 14, 2026. Trump is retreating from his statement that the United States would charge hefty fees on ships traversing the Strait of Hormuz, as well as his call for reimbursement from Gulf states for military protection. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By MAX BEARAK, JENNY GROSS and MICHAEL LEVENSON The U.S. military bombed more Iranian targets Tuesday, returning