Pakistan held talks in its capital city of Islamabad on Sunday to “de-escalate” the Iran war, but none of the actual participants in the war attended the meeting. Instead, the talks were held between the foreign ministers of Egypt, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Grossi said on Sunday that Iran’s nuclear program has sustained “enormous damage,” but warned “elements that were not destroyed persist” in the wake of both last summer’s massive U.S. airstrikes and the current war in Iran.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday there has been no change to the timeline of Operation Epic Fury in Iran, which has now entered its fifth week.
Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, approved a record $45.8 billion defense budget Monday as the war in Iran entered its second month.
Speaking to undergraduate economics students at Harvard University, Powell said the standard central-banking response to energy shocks is to wait them out rather than react with policy changes.
Iran’s plans to hide missiles on ‘container ships’ to raid commerce far away from its own waters has been disrupted, report states.
Monday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he anticipated the United States would achieve its “objectives” against Iran in “a matter of weeks, not months.”
Israeli Police and Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa announced they had agreed to allow Holy Week observances in the Old City of Jerusalem.
During his opening monologue on Saturday, Fox News host Mark Levin suggested there may be some limited circumstances in which U.S. ground troops would be needed for its military operations against Iran.
Israeli media reported Monday that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will not join any potential American ground operation inside Iran.
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Monday pledged to work with Germany to enable more Syrians to return home and rebuild their country after its devastating civil war, as he made a historic visit to Berlin.
President Donald Trump suggested in a message on Monday morning that a “NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME” has taken over Iran and is talking to Washington – but warned he was willing to “obliterate” Iran’s energy infrastructure if talks did not lead to a durable agreement.
Iran confirmed Monday a targeted Israeli air strike killed the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) naval units, Alireza Tangsiri, who Israel held responsible for the blocking of the vital Strait of Hormuz.
Spain has closed its airspace to flights involved in the United States’ Operation Epic Fury against Iran’s Islamic regime, the Spanish newspaper El País reported on Monday, with the NATO ally specifically tracking U.S. aircraft.
President Donald Trump is seriously weighing a military operation to extract nearly 1,000 pounds of highly enriched uranium from Iran, insisting Tehran must surrender what he called the regime’s “nuclear dust” or face annihilation, according to a report published Sunday night.
Israeli police officers sparked a diplomatic and religious row on Sunday after they stopped two top clergymen from going to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to celebrate the Palm Sunday Mass.
The Pentagon is preparing for what could become weeks-long ground operations inside Iran — including Special Operations raids and limited infantry missions — as U.S. forces, including a Marine expeditionary unit now in theater, continue to build up for a potentially more dangerous next phase of Operation Epic Fury, according to a report published Saturday.
On Friday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Ceasefire,” Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) stated that “some kind of change in the government” is an objective in Iran, but “maybe that’s not reachable.” Gimenez said, “I have a clearer knowledge, or at least indication
A teenage migrant from Senegal has reportedly been arrested for allegedly attempting to set off a homemade bomb outside of a Bank of America building in central Paris.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that his country and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to cooperate on defence amid Iran’s drone strikes across the Gulf, before heading to regional neighbour Qatar.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels announced their entry into the Middle East war on Saturday by launching a ballistic missile towards Israel, as the world struggled to contain the economic damage of a conflict now entering its second month.
The United States has for the first time deployed autonomous, uncrewed drone speedboats in active combat operations against Iran, introducing a low-cost, asymmetric naval capability that officials say has already logged hundreds of hours patrolling key waterways under Operation Epic Fury.
U.S. Marines and paratroopers who could be sent into combat in Iran are conducting nuclear, chemical, and biological hazard drills.
Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, son of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and top commander of the Ugandan military, said on Wednesday that his forces are “ready to assist” Israel in battle with Iran.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced Friday that ships traveling to or departing from ports belonging to countries it described as allies and supporters of the United States and Israel would not be allowed to cross the Strait of Hormuz.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a defense cooperation agreement with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto leader of the country, during a visit to Jeddah on Friday, emphasizing that Iran has aided Russia’s invasion of his country for years.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Friday that strikes on Iran will “escalate and expand” if Iran keeps launching missiles.
The campaign to prevent Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz continues with raid on country’s “primary” sea mine facility, Israel has said.
The March survey also suggests some political trouble for the Trump administration and Republicans eight months ahead of the mid-term elections. The index tracking expectations among Republicans fell sharply, from a reading of 100.3 to 94.2.
Iran’s IRGC announced a campaign to recruit boys as young as 12 to join their forces manning checkpoints repressing Iranian citizens.
On Thursday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC) said that the Trump administration has to give Congress more information on what it’s considering in Iran. Co-host Kailey Leinz asked, “Your Chairman on the Armed Services Committee,
President Donald Trump’s Pentagon is developing military options for what officials describe as a potentially “massive” final blow against Iran — including seizing strategic islands in the Strait of Hormuz, blockading Iranian oil exports, and securing Tehran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium — as the administration weighs sending 10,000 additional combat troops to the Middle East if diplomacy collapses and the vital waterway remains restricted.
While more than 90 percent of Iranian missiles and drones have been intercepted by the United States, Israel, and allied forces, experts are reportedly warning that the cost of defense is quietly draining allied stockpiles across the region.
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is extending the pause on bombings of Iranian energy infrastructure by 10 days, hours after stating Iran is “begging to make a deal” in the fourth week of Operation Epic Fury.
Breitbart News hosted a policy discussion on Thursday focused on threats posed by China and the Chinese Communist Party, where Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said China and Iran have been allies and share a goal of opposing the United States as the dominant global power.
Britain’s Secretary of State for Defence subjected radio listeners to dead air on Thursday morning, as well as obfuscatory non-answers.
While the OECD sees higher headline inflation from rising energy prices, this doesn’t mean higher underlying inflation for the U.S.
During Wednesday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) applauded President Donald Trump’s strikes against Iran.
At least seven Olympians from several different countries have denounced the IOC for issuing a weak statement in response to the Iranian regime murdering teenage wrestler Saleh Mohammadi.
Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told an Italian newspaper on Wednesday that he believes the governments of Iran and the United States could hold talks to end their current conflict as recently as this weekend, mediated by Pakistan.