Fighter jets from the United States and Saudi Arabia conducted joint military strikes Tuesday targeting Iranian proxy forces in Iraq, officials said, marking what appeared to be Riyadh’s direct entry into the ongoing conflict between Washington and Tehran.

The fighting shattered a brief period of calm after weeks of escalation between the U.S. and Iran over the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

The U.S. and Saudi Arabia said they had carried out joint airstrikes on Iranian proxies in Iraq. The Iranian military said it had targeted American military assets in Jordan.

The United States and Saudi Arabia attacked Iran-backed proxies in Iraq on Wednesday after Saudi air defense systems intercepted days of attacks launched from Iraq against the kingdom's petroleum facilities.

The earthquake caused dozens of injuries, according to Japanese media. At a shopping mall, people were trapped after an explosion.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 has shaken Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu, leaving dozens of people missing or injured

An earthquake registering a magnitude of 7.1 shook Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu and caused part of a shopping center to collapse on Tuesday, leaving dozens of people missing or injured, officials and reports said.

A major earthquake in Japan's southwest killed at least 13 people and left several injured or missing after a shopping center and a paper mill were heavily damaged.

French authorities ordered nearly 4,000 more people to evacuate Tuesday from tourist sites on the Atlantic coast as returning heat threatened firefighters’ fragile hold on a vast wildfire west of Bordeaux.

Firefighters have warned they are still not in control of a major wildfire near Bordeaux and fears grow that the situation in France and Spain will worsen as a fresh heatwave arrives. More than 300,000 people have been evacuated.

Hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes as wildfires rage on throughout Spain and France. ABC News' Marcus Moore reports.

A raging wildfire in southwest France forced the evacuation of 55,000 people overnight Sunday, bringing the total forced out of their homes to a staggering 220,000 in one region alone.

The attack in the Caspian Sea was an unusually direct encounter between two countries that have been on opposite sides for years.

Iran accused Ukraine of attacking one of its commercial vessels in the Caspian Sea over the weekend, killing one person onboard and injuring another.

One Iranian analyst told Newsweek Ukrainian strikes will "redouble Tehran‑Moscow cooperation to strengthen Caspian security."

ISTANBUL—Ukrainian drones have hit military-supply lines connecting Russia and Iran through the Caspian Sea, exploiting a new front in two increasingly intertwined wars. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed responsibility for the strikes,

President Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the White House to discuss Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine. CBS News' Aidan Stretch has the latest details.

Trump, the people said, has been impressed with Zelensky’s resilience as he takes the fight deep into Russian territory. The shift comes after several meetings on the sidelines of global summits where the Ukrainian president has tried to charm Trump,

Since returning to power early last year, Trump has halted direct US arms deliveries to Kyiv in favour of a programme allowing European countries to buy weapons for Ukraine.View on euronews

President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have met to discuss Ukraine producing its own weapons amid its ongoing war with Russia

President Donald Trump says Pickaxe Mountain could be targeted if Iran refuses a nuclear agreement, adding the U.S. is closely monitoring activity at the site.

Trump’s pushback on Netanyahu’s Iran intelligence claim highlights the strain inside the U.S.-Israel approach to Tehran’s nuclear program and the Hormuz standof

US president, in irritated comments before hosting PM at White House, criticizes Netanyahu for speaking publicly about the nuclear site; Katz: Israel wants to strike Iran but US holding us back The post Trump,

Israeli Prime Minister BENJAMIN NETANYAHU got the Oval Office meeting he has sought for months. But the meeting itself might be all he gets, given that there were no signs that Washington plans to escalate the war in Iran per Israel’s wishes.