A senior US military officer has asked analysts to come up with "new" ways to "punish" Iran, CNN has reported, as President Trump's war and recent airstrikes have failed to force the country into capitulation. "We are looking for new creative and unconventional ways...
President Trump on Monday attacked Iranian leadership in a post on Truth Social after Tehran denied his claim that talks with the US were taking place. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said that the only negotiations underway were between Iran and...
Video and photo evidence of the aftermath of a US strike in Iran's Qeshm Island suggests that the US dropped a 2,000-pound Mark-84 bomb on a civilian home, The New York Times reported on Sunday. The strike, launched on July 30, killed Qeisar Jafari, who was identified...
President Trump said on Saturday night that he decided to hold off on launching major strikes on Iran that he said would have inflicted "military terror" on the country, which came after media reports said he was ready to significantly escalate the war. "The USA is...
The US Army has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract worth up to $58.6 billion to ramp up production of Patriot PAC-3 interceptors, as US forces have used an enormous number of them in the war with Iran. According to The Hill, the deal converts a previous one-year...
An overnight US strike on Iran's Qeshm Island hit a residential building, killing a couple and their two-year-old child, Iranian media has reported. According to Iran's PressTV, Ahmad Nafisi, a deputy governor of Iran's Hormuzgan Province, said that two other children...
Updated on July 29, 2026 at 8:38 pm EST US Central Command announced on Wednesday night that it began launching airstrikes against Iran, hours after President Trump threatened a response to an Iranian missile attack on a US base in Jordan. CENTCOM described the...
The US and Saudi Arabia launched major airstrikes in Iraq overnight, targeting the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), a coalition of mostly Shia militias formed in 2014 to fight ISIS. The US-Saudi strikes targeted PMF facilities in Baghdad and five Iraqi provinces,...
The Senate on Tuesday night advanced a sweeping Russia sanctions bill as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky watched the vote from the Senate gallery. Zelensky was in town for the funeral of Sen. Lindsey Graham, after whom the legislation was named. The Lindsey O....
After meeting with President Trump in Washington on Tuesday to discuss the Iran war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the talks as "one of the best conversations" he's ever had with the US president. "It was a meeting with full cooperation, with...
