The Iranian military reported firing missiles and drones at a US warship near the Strait of Hormuz as a warning for the vessel to turn back. “Immediately after they switched their radars back on they were detected and faced a radio warning from the navy of the...
Trump is posting like the Strait of Hormuz is a light switch he controls, but the shipping data, tanker seizures, and oil price spikes point to something far more dangerous: a grinding maritime confrontation that can escalate by accident. We sit down with...
President Donald Trump is ramping up pressure on Tel Aviv to grant a pardon to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Israeli leader is battling multiple corruption charges. Trump told the Israeli outlet Kan News on Sunday, “Tell your president to pardon...
The US and Israel have rejected a peace proposal from Hamas that would see the Palestinian group disarm in the process of the creation of an independent Palestinian state. A senior Palestinian source speaking with Middle East Eye said that Hamas and other...
In a rare statement, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said that the future of the Middle East will be “bright” without the US. “A new chapter for the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz is unfolding,” Khamenei wrote in a multi-post statement on...
US Central Command (CENTCOM) is requesting the Department of War deploy a hypersonic missile system to the Middle East. Bloomberg reported on Wednesday that CENTCOM, the regional command responsible for the Middle East, asked for the Dark Eagle hypersonic missile...
President Donald Trump said that he was mulling a reduction of US troops in Germany following Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s saying Iran had humiliated the US. “The United States is studying and reviewing the possible reduction of Troops in Germany, with a...
The Strait of Hormuz is the kind of choke point people talk about in theory, right up until it closes and the whole global economy starts to feel it. We’re joined by Ambassador Chas Freeman, a veteran American diplomat, to make sense of the US-Iran ceasefire drama...
The USS Gerald R. Ford will return to the US after nearly a year at war. The Ford is one of three aircraft carrier strike groups in the Middle East. The Washington Post reported speaking with US officials who said USS Ford will be leaving the region in the coming...
US Central Command (CENTCOM) has prepared battle plans for a round of strikes against Iran. Axios spoke with three people familiar with the Department of War’s planning to resume strikes against Iran. According to the sources CENTCOM, the US military command...
Vice President JD Vance has been questioning the assessments coming out of the Department of War about the success of the US military in Iran. According to two senior White House officials speaking with The Atlantic, Vance has expressed skepticism about the...
The White House has asked the intelligence community to assess how Iran would respond to the US declaring victory and ending the conflict. According to multiple sources speaking with Reuters, senior Trump administration officials requested the intelligence...
