
Americans stranded for days in the Middle East are beginning to return home, with the first direct commercial flight from the UAE landing at New York’s JFK Airport. CNN's Salma Abdelaziz reports.

Americans stranded for days in the Middle East are beginning to return home, with the first direct commercial flight from the UAE landing at New York’s JFK Airport. CNN's Salma Abdelaziz reports.

Russia is providing Iran with intelligence about the locations and movements of US troops, ships and aircraft, according to multiple people familiar with US intelligence reporting — the first indication Moscow has sought to get involved in the conflict. CNN’s Natasha Bertrand reports.

CNN's Patrick Oppmann breaks down why President Donald Trump, in an interview with CNN, said Cuba is going to "fall" and wants to make a deal with the United States.

British citizens Craig and Lindsay Foreman have been imprisoned in Iran since last January, while they were traveling through the country on a motorcycle trip and accused of espionage. Joe Bennett, Lindsay's son, is in regular contact with the couple over the phone. They told him those in prison “are petrified,” Bennett said in an interview with CNN’s Christina Macfarlane.

CNN's Clarissa Ward shows the aftermath after an Iranian missile struck a base of Iranian Kurdish militias in Iraq's Kurdistan. The CIA is working to arm Iranian Kurdish forces with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran, multiple people familiar with the plan told CNN this week.

Sources tell CNN Iran’s women’s soccer team is under heavy security in Australia after refusing to sing the national anthem with families allegedly threatened and state media calling them “traitors.” CNN's Christina Macfarlane reports.

A CNN team on the Israel-Lebanon border witnessed two projectiles from Lebanon striking northern Israel, as the crossfire between Israel and Hezbollah intensifies. Israel has carried out a wave of strikes in Beirut and in southern Lebanon. Meanwhile, Israel says five Israeli soldiers were seriously wounded by Hezbollah fire on Friday. CNN’s Jeremy Diamond reports from the Israel-Lebanon border.

CNN’s Fred Pleitgen and photojournalist Claudia Otto join demonstrators as the government attempts to put on a defiant face. CNN operates in Iran only with government permission.


