Secretary of War Pete Hegseth traveled to an Israeli air base housing US warplanes and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The meeting occurred eight days before Israel’s election. Two sources with knowledge of the meeting told Axios that Hegseth met with...
Reuters reported on Tuesday, speaking with multiple senior Iranian officials who explained that Tehran is deliberately delaying negoations with the US to hurt President Donald Trump’s Republican Party in the upcoming midterm elections. “Iran is preparing for...
The Egyptian National Defense Council pledged to provide “all possible forms of support” to Saudi Arabia as the kingdom battles Ansar Allah, or the Houthis, in Yemen. Egypt is “extending all necessary and possible forms of support to the sisterly Kingdom of Saudi...
Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Marco Rubio warned that the war in Ukraine could spread to other countries through sabotage operations or accidental drone incursions. Multiple NATO states have blamed Russia for conducting sabotage operations. ...
President Donald Trump may meet with his Russian and Chinese counterparts, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in China next month, according to the Kremlin. “Given that all three heads of state may...
Trump is turning up the heat on Ukraine and Zelensky, and the timing is impossible to ignore: voters feel foreign policy in their wallets through gas prices and diesel prices. Kyle sits down with Connor Echols of Responsible Statecraft to parse what’s real policy...
President Donald Trump has waived new sanctions against Russia that Congress passed into law last month. Congress approved the sanctions as a tribute to the late Senator Lindsey Graham. In September, Trump signed the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the Trump administration sent Kiev a message by temporarily restricting access to Starlink and suspending military intelligence sharing. The Ukrainian leader thanked Washington for restoring both services. “It was blocked...
Ansar Allah said a Saudi airstrike in Yemen killed nine civilians, including children. The US is providing support for Saudi Arabia’s war against Ansar Allah. Ansar Allah spokesperson Anees al-Asbahi said that a Saudi airstrike hit a house in the Sahar district of...
The fastest way to misread a war is to believe one leader can simply declare it over. We dig into President Trump’s claim that the Iran war will end “very soon” and test it against the hard constraints that actually decide timelines: the Strait of Hormuz, shipping...
The fastest way a “regional conflict” becomes a global problem is through chokepoints, and we spend this conversation mapping the ones that matter. Dave DeCamp joins me to explain why a US move toward direct intervention in Yemen could trigger the exact kind of...
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine was “done” observing restrictions on strikes against Russian energy facilities, rejecting an energy truce announced by President Donald Trump earlier this week. In an interview with the Financial Times published on...
