President Donald Trump’s “tanker-for-tanker” retaliation policy escalated Saturday as U.S. forces struck 3 Iranian oil tankers after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched ballistic missiles toward 2 U.S. Navy warships.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) on Saturday announced that two Iranian oil tankers were disabled by U.S. airstrikes, and a third was “completely destroyed.” One of the tankers was struck near Iran’s primary oil loading facility at Kharg Island, confirming reports of explosions near the island by Iranian state media.
The Taiwanese cabinet on Thursday approved a supplementary defense budget that pushed total defense spending over $1 trillion in New Taiwan (NT) dollars for the first time.
President Donald Trump warned Tuesday that Iran could be “totally wiped out as a country” if it continued its attacks on U.S. forces, as Tehran launched a new ballistic missile barrage targeting American military facilities in Jordan following a wave of U.S. strikes on Iran.
President Donald Trump on Sunday posted a ten-second A.I.-generated video of Iran’s Kharg Island oil terminal being “blown to smithereens,” as he put it, shortly after the first U.S. airstrikes against Iran in a month. None of the actual strikes was confirmed to have targeted Kharg Island.
Iran launched ballistic missiles and drones at U.S. forces in Jordan late Sunday, hours after the U.S. struck Iranian forces preparing to deploy sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz, reigniting direct fighting between Washington and Tehran after a monthlong lull.
According to South Korean intelligence, North Korea responded to President Donald Trump’s peace overtures on Thursday by launching about a dozen short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) into the Sea of Japan just hours after Trump scaled back U.S.-South Korean military exercises and offered to talk with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Wednesday suspended all trade with Iran, after suffering the latest wanton missile attack from Iranian forces.
The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen claimed responsibility for a murderous “double tap” strike on a ship in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Tuesday, using three ballistic missiles to set the ship on fire — and then launching another missile in a deliberate attack on rescue teams, killing at least six people.
The government of South Korea confirmed that it observed the launch on Wednesday of a ballistic missile from North Korea into the East Sea (Sea of Japan), causing no damage but reinvigorating regional alarm that the communist nuclear state could soon plan an attack on its neighbors.
Russia attacked Ukrainian cities with missiles, drones and glide bombs Tuesday, killing at least 10 civilians, officials said.
A senior Ukrainian intelligence official told Reuters in a report published on Wednesday that Russia had begun deploying a North Korean missile unit to its war theater against Ukraine, apparently exploiting potential vulnerabilities the invaded country has against ballistic missiles.
A Russian ballistic missile and drone barrage across Ukraine overnight killed at least eight civilians, including children, and injured 50+.
The U.S. military launched a round of strikes against Iran Wednesday evening after President Donald Trump vowed to hit the Islamic Republic “very hard” in response to Iran’s attempted ballistic missile attack on U.S. forces in Jordan the previous day.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked the CENTCOM headquarters of the US military in Jordan with ballistic missiles.
With a pause in U.S. attacks stretching into a fourth day on Monday, Iran has shifted its aggression toward Saudi Arabia, and especially at sabotaging Saudi efforts to shift their oil exports from the Strait of Hormuz into the Red Sea.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.,” Fox News Senior Strategic Analyst Gen. Jack Keane (Ret.) stated that Iran used “whatever money they got back from the deal” to things like replenishing their weapons and “moving
President Donald Trump said Sunday that the United States had struck Iran “very hard” in honor of three American servicemembers killed in recent days, as U.S. Central Command announced it had successfully completed a ninth consecutive evening of strikes targeting Iran’s military infrastructure and its ability to attack commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
Russia attacked Kyiv overnight with ballistic missiles and other weapons, killing one and wounding 16 people, local authorities said, again highlighting Ukraine´s shortage of U.S.-made Patriot air defense systems.
Iran claims it attacked a U.S. position in eastern Syria early Friday morning. If true, it would mark the first Iranian attack on Syria.
Ukraine won’t be able to complain they aren’t enough missiles because they’ll be allowed to make their own, President Trump revealed.
NATO would be wise to welcome Ukraine as a member of the alliance and should hurry to send more missiles to Kyiv, President Zelensky said.
NATO members should stop hoarding air defence missiles in their domestic warehouses and hand them over to Ukraine, President Zelensky said.
At least 20 killed in night of intense airstrikes, which Moscow claimed were retaliation against what it describes as Ukrainian “terrorism”.
A U.S. fighter pilot who survived being shot down over Iran and was later rescued in a dramatic special operations mission reported seeing a bizarre, jellyfish-like formation of Iranian drones moving in unison moments before his F-15 went down, according to a report published Tuesday that has fueled new concerns about previously unknown capabilities in Tehran’s drone arsenal.
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) said that the Iran MOU doesn’t address ballistic missiles or “their nefarious actions in the area.” And “Those were certainly things that were very important to me and others
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) stated that Iran shouldn’t have ballistic missiles and “They have not shown that they can be a civil society.” Moreno said that the U.S. “destroyed” Iran’s ballistic missile capability,
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Vice President JD Vance said that Iran’s missile program is covered under the umbrella of not funding terrorism under the agreement with the country. Host Sean Hannity asked, “One of the
The Iranian military on Thursday threatened to continue attacking American targets in the Middle East, and demanded a halt to President Donald Trump’s threats of further U.S. military action.
The U.S. military launched a fresh wave of strikes against multiple targets in Iran on Wednesday evening after President Donald Trump warned Tehran would “pay the price” for dragging out negotiations aimed at ending the conflict.
President Donald Trump personally intervened Monday to stop Israel from carrying out a significantly larger military operation against Iran after warning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu further escalation could leave Israel confronting Tehran without American backing, multiple U.S. and Israeli media report.
Lebanese Defense Minister Michel Menassa said on Monday that Israel has conducted 3,491 airstrikes against targets in Lebanon since the U.S.-brokered “ceasefire” began on April 17.
The Iranian armed forces claimed in comments published on Monday that the missile assault on Israel they launched the day before had concluded — but reportedly threatened continued bombings, including against American oil facilities, if the terror regime considered it necessary.
Israel struck military and petrochemical targets inside Iran for the first time since an early-April ceasefire on Monday after Tehran launched ballistic missile barrages at the Jewish state.
Iran shattered the fragile ceasefire that had largely held since April 8 by launching multiple ballistic missile barrages at Israel on Sunday, threatening to derail negotiations that President Donald Trump said were only days away from producing a broader agreement between Washington and Tehran.
Iran is demanding the release of $24 billion in frozen assets as a condition for advancing a potential agreement with Washington, while U.S. forces intercepted Iranian missiles and drones targeting Kuwait, Bahrain, and maritime traffic near the Strait of Hormuz and President Donald Trump’s top envoys quietly convened nuclear experts to prepare for the possible implementation of a deal.
Israeli Ambassador to Australia Hillel Newman said on Wednesday that renewed military action against Iran is possible if Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities are not neutralized by a prospective peace deal with the United States.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday Russia used the powerful hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile during a mass drone and missile attack on Kyiv on Sunday that killed at least two people, marking the third time the weapon has been used in the four-year war.
Iran has reportedly agreed in principle to surrender its stockpile of highly enriched uranium as part of the emerging U.S.-brokered agreement President Donald Trump said Saturday, confirming the now “largely negotiated” agreement could be announced as early as Sunday.
A massive fireball and explosion near Jerusalem triggered widespread online speculation late Saturday after dramatic footage near a facility belonging to Israel’s state-owned Tomer defense company spread rapidly online amid mounting tensions surrounding Iran.
