Israel has carried out an exercise that appears to have been a rehearsal for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, US officials have told the New York Times.

As a boy, Michael Conner Humphreys made a splash on the silver screen as "Young Forrest Gump." As an adult, he somewhat mirrored the life of his movie character: He joined the Army and fought in an unpopular war.

Severed fingers of five Western contractors were sent to the U.S. military in Iraq, giving the men’s relatives hope that they are still alive, a brother of one of the missing men said.