Israel decimated the group’s leadership last fall and degraded its military capabilities. Can the same strategy work against a far more powerful foe?

The conflict between Israel and Iran has escalated dramatically since Friday. A series of graphics tracks how each country is attacking the other, how both sides are defending themselves and what role the U.

Iran's strikes on Israel are self-defense and are "proportionate defensive operations directed exclusively at military objectives and associated infrastructure," Iran's U.N. Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani told the U.