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Amid month of turmoil, Iran’s supreme leader says country won’t bow to U.S.

By Amir Vahdat, Joseph Krauss, Associated Press

Iran's supreme leader lashed out at Western countries as he led Friday prayers in Tehran for the first time in eight years.

WATCH: McConnell says he’ll ‘strongly oppose’ the war powers resolution

By Matthew Daly, Laurie Kellman, Associated Press

The Senate majority leader said that the measure, co-sponsored by two Republicans, would send the wrong message to U.S. allies after the Trump administration killed Iran's top general earlier this month.

A timeline of U.S.-Iran relations

By Gretchen Frazee

The U.S. and Iran have a complicated history dating back decades.

Trump officials point to dissent in Iran amid lingering questions over U.S. strike

By Robert Burns, Associated Press

Defense Secretary Mark Esper added to the uncertainty over the intelligence behind last week’s killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani when he said Sunday that he had seen no hard evidence that four American embassies had been under possible threat.

U.S. troops clear rubble from Iraq base after Iran missile strike

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra, Associated Press

The Ain al-Asad air base in Iraq’s western Anbar province was struck by a barrage of Iranian missiles on Wednesday.

Under pressure, Iran admits it shot down jetliner by mistake

By Nasser Karimi, Joseph Krauss, Associated Press

Iran's Revolutionary Guard on Saturday acknowledged that it accidentally shot down the Ukrainian jetliner that crashed earlier this week, killing all 176 people aboard, after the government had repeatedly denied Western accusations and mounting evidence that it was responsible.

Will fallout from Soleimani killing drive U.S. troops from Iraq?

The fallout from the Trump administration’s killing of Qasem Soleimani continues to unfold -- and it could affect the presence of U.S. forces in Iraq. On Friday, Sec. of State Mike Pompeo rejected Iraqi calls for the U.S. to plan…

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U.S. reportedly tried to take out another Iranian leader on the same day as Soleimani strike

By Lolita C. Baldor, Robert Burns, Associated Press

U.S. officials say the U.S. military tried, but failed, to take out another senior Iranian commander on the same day that an American airstrike killed the Revolutionary Guard's top general.

Amid tensions between the U.S. and Iran, Canada grieves

By Rob Gillies, Tim Sullivan, Associated Press

Canadians are struggling to come to terms with how the killing of an Iranian general last week in a U.S. drone strike may have led to the deaths of dozens of their citizens in a plane crash.

Plane crash may be grim echo of U.S. downing of Iran flight in 1988

By Jon Gambrell, Associated Press

The July 3, 1988 downing of Iran Air flight 655 by the U.S. Navy remains one of the moments the Iranian government points to in its decades-long distrust of America.