3 days ago - Nine months later, on 28 February 2026, Israel and the United States launched strikes on Iran, beginning the 2026 Iran war. Donald Trump first labeled the conflict as the "12 day war" in his announcement of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran on 23 June 2025.

November 11, 2025 - The 12-Day War between Iran and Israel in June 2025 exposed critical weaknesses in the Islamic Republic’s military, strategic, and ideological frameworks,

The scale and intensity of Israel’s attack on Iran were unprecedented, presenting the most severe security challenge the Islamic Republic has faced since the Iran-Iraq War. In total, Israel carried out nearly 360 attacks across 27 Iranian ...

For 12 fateful days in June 2025, the world stood mesmerized by Iranian missiles. Wave after wave struck military installations and intelligence centers throughout Israel, a critical proxy of US im...

December 26, 2025 - The armed conflict between the two arch enemies drew in neighbouring countries Jordan and Qatar as well as the US, whose President Donald Trump dubbed it the “12-day war”.

January 28, 2026 - Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told us that he personally chose the name “Operation Rising Lion” after a biblical prophecy that the people of Israel would rise like lions from adversity.

While Israel has claimed success for its military operation in the 12-day war, its long-term solution to the Iranian nuclear threat – the denial of infrastructure and expertise – requires it to preserve both aerial dominance and intelligence penetration of Iran indefinitely and to permanently be prepared to strike.

February 13, 2026 - Iran fired hundreds of missiles during the 12-day war and used more than 1,000 attack drones, killing nearly three dozen Israeli civilians and wounding thousands.

July 24, 2025 - The 12-day exchange of Israeli, Iranian, and American strikes marked a dramatic widening and intensification of the conflicts that have roiled the Middle East for the last year and a half.

August 12, 2026 - Tehran’s approach to its nuclear program will be shaped by how its domestic politics evolve in the aftermath of the Israeli and American strikes. Iranian leaders are acutely sensitive to the possibility of internal instability. The news outlets that serve as regime mouthpieces have cast the outcome of the 12-day war as a victory: the ruling system held firm and lived to fight another day.

2 days ago - In June 2025, a brief war known as the Twelve-Day War involved Israeli strikes on Iranian military and nuclear facilities and a ceasefire brokered afterwards.

November 24, 2025 - Israel achieved extraordinary successes in its strikes on Iran in the 12-day war in June. This was hammered home in a new report at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA). The report is titled “Operation Rising Lion: Insights from Israel’s 12-Day War against Iran,” and it came out on Thursday, November 20.In a discussion about the report, the three authors, who are key former US military officers, spoke about the 12-day war.

2 days ago - In June 2025, a brief war known as the Twelve-Day War involved Israeli strikes on Iranian military and nuclear facilities and a ceasefire brokered afterwards.

July 2, 2025 - This war between Israel, Iran and the United States may have only lasted 12 days. But for more than 600 days, 50 hostages have been held in Gaza, at least 20 of them alive.

September 20, 2026 - It has been fully agreed by and ... hours, at which point the War will be considered, ENDED! Officially, Iran will start the CEASEFIRE and, upon the 12th Hour, Israel will start the CEASEFIRE and, upon the 24th Hour, an Official END to THE 12 DAY WAR will be saluted by the ...

October 9, 2025 - For decades, predictions about a war with Iran carried an air of inevitability: Analysts warned a conflict would close the ranks of the Iranian military and political elite, unite the Iranian people behind the regime, unleash the vengeance Tehran foretold, set the Middle East ablaze, sending oil prices to the roof, and even ignite a world war. And yet, literally none of this happened. Instead, the 12-Day War pitting Israel, and later the United States, against Iran exposed just how brittle those assumptions were.

June 24, 2025 - US President Donald Trump declared a conclusion to what he called the “12 Day War” less than a day after Iran retaliated against the US bombing of its nuclear facilities with a strike against a US military base in Qatar.