Senior Trump administration officials told members of Congress during a closed-door briefing on Tuesday that Iran's Shahed attack drones are a major threat to the US military and that not all of them will be intercepted by US air defenses, CNN has reported. The report...
The Senate on Wednesday voted against advancing a War Powers Resolution aimed at halting further US military action against Iran without authorization from Congress amid the major US-Israeli bombing campaign in the country. The resolution, introduced by Senators Tim...
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday that the US launched the war with Iran because President Trump had a "feeling" that Iranian forces were going to attack first. Leavitt made the comments when pressed on the claims that there was an...
A US submarine sank an Iranian warship with a torpedo in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Sri Lanka, marking an escalation and widening of the US-Israeli war against Iran. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth confirmed during a press briefing that the US sank the vessel....
The White House is expected to ask Congress for an extra $50 billion in military spending to replenish stockpiles of weapons used in the Iran war and other recent Middle East conflicts, Reuters has reported. Sources told Reuters that Deputy Secretary of War Steve...
As Lebanon comes under growing attack by Israel, tens of thousands of Syrian refugees who had fled to Lebanon are finding themselves scrambling to return home. The Islamist government in Syria has reported some 40,000 people have crossed back in from Lebanon in recent...
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Wednesday boasted of the "death and destruction" the US military can rain down on Iran, as reports say that US and Israeli airstrikes have killed over 1,000 Iranian civilians in just four days. Hegseth said at a press briefing that the...
At least 11 more people have been killed today as Israel continues its airstrikes against Lebanon, with substantial focuses of the strikes being residential areas and a hotel in the Christian-majority part of the capital city of Beirut. The Comfort Hotel, in between...
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said on Tuesday that he was "fearful" that the Trump administration would put "boots on the ground" in Iran as the war the US and Israel launched on Saturday continues to escalate. "I just want to say that I am more fearful than ever...
President Trump said on Tuesday that the US would provide insurance and naval escorts for tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz after Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) declared the waterway was closed, a response to the US and Israeli attack on Iran....
