New versions of ‘Remaking the Middle East’ and ‘Strike on Iran’ will premiere this month, and a FRONTLINE Dispatch podcast episode on the conflict’s roots and ramifications is out now.

It’s been a week since the US and Israel launched their war with Iran, sparking a wider conflict across the Middle East that the United Nations warns could spiral out of control.

US President Donald Trump said on Friday at the White House that the United States is performing “very well” in operations against Iran.

The broadening Iran war has ricocheted across the region and beyond. Nearly every country in the Middle East has sustained damage from missile hits, drone strikes or shrapnel.

A Lexington family arrived in Raleigh on Friday night after being trapped in Jerusalem during the evolving conflict in the Middle East. Chris Elliott and his daughter, Riley, a senior at Central Davidson High School,

U.S. oil prices rallied Friday and were on track to set a record weekly gain of 35%, as the Middle East begins to feel a squeeze in production and storage capacity as the Iran conflict runs through a seventh day.

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has told a White House event the US is striking Iranian drone and missile systems "every single hour".

By closing the Strait of Hormuz and attacking oil and gas facilities in Gulf countries, Tehran is driving up hydrocarbon prices. But renewable energy – largely dominated by China – is not immune to