President Trump has said he would "never apologize" for the higher gas prices Americans are facing due to his war with Iran, downplaying the surge in prices as just a "tiny little bit more." The US president framed the increase in gas prices as necessary to prevent...
The aircraft carrier USS George Washington is preparing to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln as part of a scheduled Middle East deployment, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, news that comes as families of military personnel aboard the Lincoln have reported...
The US lost at least 45 MQ-9 Reaper drones in its war with Iran, or roughly 25% of its entire fleet, The Washington Post reported on Thursday, one of the many examples of the conflict creating a staggering depletion of US military stockpiles. MQ-9s are used to conduct...
An Iranian source speaking to Reuters has denied that the US and Iran had agreed to extend a 60-day ceasefire under the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding, since the deal fell apart shortly after it was signed. The official was responding to a report from Turkey's...
President Trump claimed on Wednesday that the US has "total control" over the Strait of Hormuz and may "keep it" despite Iran continuing to demonstrate its control of the waterway and engaging in negotiations with Oman on its future. "The USA has total control over...
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Tuesday that he heard from diplomats from other countries that no one expected Iran to be able to "resist" the US in the way Iran has done in the war the US and Israel launched on February 28. "I have heard this many...
Turkish officials suspect that an Israeli intelligence report about an Iranian plot to assassinate President Trump at the NATO summit in Ankara last month was a ruse designed to derail diplomacy between the US and Iran, Middle East Eye reported on Tuesday. The...
US Central Command on Tuesday announced that a US military helicopter bombed a civilian cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman that it accused of attempting to break the US blockade of Iranian ports. CENTCOM said a US Navy MH-60 helicopter fired two Hellfire missiles into the...
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said on Monday that the US has an "addiction" to sanctions and vowed that Iran wouldn't be "strangled" by the economic pressure. "The US Secretary of the Treasury has boasted of 'suffocating' Iran through economic...
President Trump on Monday responded to an Iranian official calling for the US to provide compensation for damage caused by the war as a condition for the opening of the Strait of Hormuz, saying that instead, Iran should pay the US. "I see that Representatives of the...
