Twenty-five years after al-Qaeda's hijackers killed nearly three thousand people across New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania, America paused once more to read the names, ring the bells, and carry the weight of a morning that remade the nation's relationship with the world. The anniversary arrived not in stillness, but against the sound of fresh turbulence — an Iranian-backed militia seizing a strategic Red Sea island on the very same day, a reminder that the forces 9/11 set in motion have never fully come to rest. To remember 2001 is also, inevitably, to reckon with the world it produced.
America Marks 25 Years Since 9/11 as Iran-Backed Forces Seize Red Sea Island
Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.