President Trump took to Truth Social on Tuesday to declare that all mines have been removed from the Strait of Hormuz - it what seems yet another attempt to declare all is well at a moment Washington has shifted from prior military operations to an e
The Wall Street Journal has reported that President Trump was given strong warnings against starting the war with Iran, including from then-Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
The United States has resumed its bombing of Iran after a "surprise attack" on American forces. US President Donald Trump had warned earlier on Wednesday that Iran was about to face a harsh response, reportedly telling Fox News: "We're going
A week after ordering the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to prepare for a "long-term stay" in occupied southern Lebanon, Defense Minister Israel Katz has now also ordered them to escalate the rate...
Iran's top civilian officials are publicly urging an end to the ongoing conflict with the United States, exposing a deepening internal rift as they attempt to rein in hardliners who champion continued resistance.
Colonel Douglas Macgregor argues that the United States has strategically lost the war with Iran and lacks any coherent foreign policy strategy, equating its interests with Israel's.
While another lull in direct combat between the United States and Iran has come into effect, other fronts begin to expand and threaten to drown the region in a much broader conflict.
The Kremlin has newly said it is ready for dialogue with Washington and open to ideas for ending the conflict in Ukraine, but still says it will not compromise on Russia's core aims.
By continuing to purchase weapons from Israel, foreign states are sustaining the infrastructure, expertise, and financing it needs to wage its next war.
The reported plan to overwhelm Moscow's air defences with AI-powered drones comes as Russia intensifies its long-range attacks, killing at least 16 people in Ukraine.
Already Russia has been subject to many months of a ramped-up long-range drone campaign out of Ukraine, chiefly targeting oil refineries as well as industrial sites - and most recently expanding to online retail companies and attacks on private secto
On August 14, 2026, President Donald Trump stood in front of a law-enforcement crowd at the David S. Mack Center for Training and Intelligence in Garden City, Long Island. Trump told them that after "defeating Iran" he would declare the Strait of
Washington is betting that tougher sanctions, financial restrictions and pressure on Iran's oil trade can force Tehran to compromise. Iran, meanwhile, is using the Strait of Hormuz to show that economic pressure can hurt its adversaries too.
It is not just America's military bases in the Middle East which have been greatly reduced in terms of personnel or in some cases completely abandoned altogether due to the Iran war, but US Embassies in the region have also suffered forced downgrades
As Trump's "Secretary of War" Pete Hegseth demands a fifty-percent increase to the war budget--topping an eye watering $1.5 trillion--it may be instructive to remember that war spending has always and everywhere been the primary enemy of soun
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Oil flows from the Middle East have normalized, with Sunday traffic alone above pre-conflict averages, US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said on Tuesday in a claim that appears not to be backed by ship-tracking data.
U.S. media claim that Iran has set out new conditions to solve the conflict with the U.S. But the new text it has published is just a repetition of clauses the U.S. had already signed on to.