King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, in 2025.

A Google office in London. Its cloud services were experiencing intermittent network failures in the region, the company said on Tuesday.

The head of MI5, Ken McCallum, during his annual threat briefing in London in 2025.

Armed police officers stood guard on a road outside the perimeter of the R.A.F. Fairford air base last month.

A police roadblock near the R.A.F. Fairford air base. Prime Minister Andy Burnham of Britain said on Wednesday that there were “strong indications that Iran played a part” in the previous weekend’s events there.

A B-1 bomber at R.A.F. Fairford in Britain taking off on Sunday. All 12 B-1s were moved from the base in a highly unusual withdrawal.

Ships in the Persian Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz, in July. Oil exports from the Middle East have rebounded in recent weeks.

A police officer at a roadblock near R.A.F. Fairford air base, possibly the target of an attack plot, in Fairford, Gloucestershire, England, on Tuesday.

Armed police officers stand guard on a road outside the perimeter of R.A.F. Fairford air base in southern England on Monday.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to the media in New York Wednesday. He said that as part of any negotiations Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz must be addressed.

President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran, next to the honor guard, at the funeral for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran in July.

A screenshot of handout video footage released Saturday by the U.S. military, which said it showed American forces striking an Iranian crude oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman.

Israeli strikes on the hilltops of the Ali al-Taher ridge last month in southern Lebanon.

A still from a video provided by the Iranian Red Crescent rescue service showed damage in Kuhestak, southern Iran, on Wednesday.

A gas station in Tehran on Tuesday. The United States imposed a monthslong blockade on Iran’s shipments of oil, the nation’s economic engine.

Drivers waiting at a taxi station in Tehran last month.

The Chinese flag flying at half-staff at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Tuesday for the former premier Zhu Rongji.

A rally in Tehran in April, with posters of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei. The ayatollah has not been seen in public since being named supreme leader of Iran.

President Abelardo de la Espriella, left, and his vice president, José Manuel Restrepo, led an earthquake response meeting in Bogotá, the Colombian capital, on Monday.

Mohsen Rezaei, an adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, attending a funeral ceremony for Mr. Khamenei’s father and predecessor, in Tehran last month.

Mourners on Wednesday carried a coffin draped in the Iranian flag during a funeral for those killed in airstrikes on bases belonging to Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces in Mosul, Iraq.

Members of the Popular Mobilization Forces march during a funeral in Baghdad last March for members killed in airstrikes that month.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Sunday night.

The Treasury Department in Washington.

Cadets from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps during a military parade in Tehran in 2024 commemorating the 44th anniversary of Iran-Iraq war.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s former leader, was known for accelerating Iran’s nuclear program and his anti-Israel views.

Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam Peninsula, Oman, on Sunday. Oman said drones had been fired at sites in the area on Sunday.

Mourners in Mashhad, Iran, during Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s funeral, on Thursday.

Mourners gathered in Tehran, Iran, to pay their respect to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for his funeral on Saturday.

Mourners at the funeral for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the Grand Mosalla complex in Tehran on Saturday.

A funeral ceremony on Friday for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the Mosalla complex in Tehran. His son and successor, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, is in hiding.

Iranian officials standing next to the coffin of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on the first day of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.

Workers in Tehran assembled scaffolding on Thursday as the country prepared for the funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose image adorned the side of a nearby building.

Inside Middle Temple Hall, a 16th-century, wood-paneled hall where legal scholars have long gathered.

Oil tankers and cargo vessels off the coast of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday.

Vice President JD Vance, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman of Qatar at the Bürgenstock resort in Switzerland on Sunday.

Iván Cepeda, left, and Abelardo De La Espriella will face off on Sunday in a presidential runoff election in Colombia.

FARC guerrillas in Norte de Santander, Colombia, where they are clashing with another armed group, the ELN.

Gathering in Tehran earlier this month., Iran affirmed in the agreement that it would never seek to build or procure a nuclear weapon, but the regime has made that promise many times previously.

Mehdi Taj being interviewed by a reporter in Tehran last month. Mr. Taj said mixed messages from Washington had created confusion over Iran’s participation in the World Cup.

Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz has become a huge source of leverage in negotiations with President Trump.

The Treasury Department announced sanctions on Iran’s largest cryptocurrency exchange and others.

Abelardo De La Espriella, a far-right candidate for president of Colombia, closed his campaign in the city of Medellín.

Vessels anchored at the Strait of Hormuz on Monday. Control of the waterway is a tool Iran has used as leverage against the United States.

Ships in the water near the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas earlier this month.

A crowd carried photos of Iran’s three supreme leaders during a ceremony in Tehran on Sunday.

The Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Musandam, Oman, on Monday.

The Iranian Embassy in Berlin in 2024.

A billboard in Tehran showing the three supreme leaders, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his son, Mojtaba Khamenei.