NPR's Robert Siegel talks with historian Juan Cole of the University of Michigan about Friday's bombing of a mosque in the southern Iraqi town of Najaf.
Prior to his retirement, Robert Siegel was the senior host of NPR's award-winning evening newsmagazine All Things Considered. With 40 years of experience working in radio news, Siegel hosted the country's most-listened-to, afternoon-drive-time news radio program and reported on stories and happenings all over the globe, and reported from a variety of locations across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. He signed off in his final broadcast of All Things Considered on January 5, 2018.
Israel hits oil facilities in Tehran overnight, triggering huge explosions, as Iran targets infrastructure in Bahrain and Kuwait and the Middle East conflict enters day nine.
Constanze Stelzenmüller of the Brookings Institution analyses the difficult line European leaders as they calculate their responses to the U.S. and Israeli war with Iran.