Iran-Israel Escalation
Escalating direct and proxy confrontation involving Iran, Israel, the United States and regional armed groups.
Historical overview
Ongoing conflict overview and stored locally on May 11, 2026.
Iran and Israel have been engaged in a proxy conflict since 1985. In the Israeli–Lebanese conflict, Iran has supported Lebanese Shia militias, most notably Hezbollah. In the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Iran has backed Palestinian groups such as Hamas. Israel has supported Iranian rebels, conducted airstrikes against Iranian allies in Syria, assassinated Iranian nuclear scientists, and directly attacked Iranian forces in Syria. In 2024 the proxy war escalated to a series of direct confrontations between the two countries, and in June 2025, they fought a 12-day war, involving the United States.
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Current conflict pre-live archive
Sudan, Gaza, Ukraine, Myanmar and the Middle East escalation define the archive immediately before the live endpoint.
The next tick after 2025 is the live worker-backed map. Static history stops before the live endpoint.