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President Donald Trump said Sunday that the United States would “immediately” move to impose a naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, following the collapse of high-stakes peace talks with Iran that ended without a deal or clear path forward. In his first public comments after more than 20 hours …

Ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remained sharply reduced Thursday despite a ceasefire between the United States and Iran, underscoring lingering uncertainty over access to one of the world’s most critical energy corridors. Only a handful of vessels have transited the waterway since the truce was announced. Data from …

House Democrats on Thursday failed in an attempt to pass a resolution aimed at halting President Donald Trump’s military actions against Iran, after a Republican lawmaker abruptly ended a brief session without allowing the measure to be considered. Rep. Glenn Ivey and several Democrats returned to Washington during a congressional …

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that U.S. forces have achieved a “historic and overwhelming victory” against Iran but will remain in the region to ensure compliance with a tentative peace agreement announced by President Donald Trump. “We’ll be hanging around. We’re not going anywhere,” Hegseth said during a Pentagon …

Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday condemned President Donald Trump’s threat to strike Iranian civilian infrastructure, urging world leaders to pursue diplomacy as tensions escalate toward a potential military confrontation. Leo called Trump’s warning that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran does not reach a deal “truly unacceptable,” emphasizing …

President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned that “a whole civilization will die tonight” as a U.S. deadline for Iran to agree to a ceasefire and reopen the Strait of Hormuz approached, marking his most extreme rhetoric yet in the escalating conflict. “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be …

More than 3,500 U.S. troops, including roughly 2,500 Marines aboard the USS Tripoli, have arrived in the Middle East as the conflict with Iran intensifies, U.S. officials said Saturday. U.S. Central Command confirmed the deployment, saying the Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit have entered the …

President Donald Trump said Monday the United States will pause “any and all military strikes” against Iranian energy infrastructure for five days as Washington and Iran engage in renewed diplomatic talks. In a social media post, Trump said recent discussions between the two sides had been “very good and productive,” …

The director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, resigned Tuesday in protest of the ongoing U.S. war with Iran, saying he could not support the conflict and arguing Tehran posed no immediate threat to the United States. “I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” Kent …

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that the U.S. military has launched a comprehensive investigation into a deadly strike last month on an elementary school in Iran, a move that signals a possible shift toward examining whether American forces were responsible for the attack. Speaking at a Pentagon news conference, …

Donald Trump ordered the release of 172 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve on Wednesday as energy prices surged amid the escalating war between the United States and Iran. The emergency release will begin next week and continue over roughly 120 days, according to Christopher Wright, the …

Mojtaba Khamenei has been appointed the new supreme leader of Iran, succeeding his father Ali Khamenei, who ruled the country for nearly four decades before being killed in recent U.S.–Israeli airstrikes, according to Iranian state media. The decision was made by the Assembly of Experts, the powerful clerical body responsible …

U.S. officials are investigating whether an American military strike may have mistakenly bombed a girls’ school in southern Iran, killing at least 168 people — many of them children — during the opening days of the ongoing conflict, according to sources familiar with the preliminary intelligence. The strike occurred Feb. …

Thousands of Americans are stranded across the Middle East after the United States and Israel launched airstrikes against Iran, triggering retaliatory drone attacks and widespread airspace closures that have complicated evacuation efforts for civilians. In the days following the strikes, the United States Department of State issued new travel advisories …

The Republican-controlled United States House of Representatives narrowly voted Thursday to reject a resolution that would have restricted Donald Trump from continuing military operations against Iran, one day after the United States Senate blocked a similar measure. The vote, 219–212, effectively cleared the way for Trump to continue a widening …