Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed at a White House press briefing on Tuesday that the US is now engaged in a "defensive operation" against Iran as the Trump administration is attempting to reframe the war that the US and Israel launched against the Islamic...
Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday responded to President Trump's latest attack on him, saying that if someone criticizes him, they should "do so truthfully." The comments came after President Trump told radio host Hugh Hewitt that Pope Leo would "rather talk about the fact that...
The US military's top general said on Tuesday that Iran's recent attacks in the region were "below the threshold" of the US restarting its bombing campaign against the Islamic Republic, as the US continues to downplay the flare-ups in the Strait of Hormuz that...
Iran's Tasnim news agency reported that a US attack in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday hit cargo vessels, not boats belonging to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), contradicting claims from US Central Command. CENTCOM said that its forces destroyed six...
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said that the flare-ups in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday show there's no "military solution" to the crisis and warned the US and the UAE against being drawn into a "quagmire" in the region. "Events in Hormuz make clear that...
Iranian media reported on Monday that the attack on oil facilities in the UAE's port of Fujairah was the result of US "adventurism" in the Strait of Hormuz. "Iran had no pre-planned intention to attack the Fujairah oil facilities," an Iranian military official told...
Updated on May 4, 2026, at 7:43 pm EST US Central Command said on Monday that US military helicopters sank six Iranian boats, an allegation Iranian officials have denied, according to Iranian media, as the ceasefire between the US and Iran appears to have collapsed....
President Trump said in a long post on Truth Social on Sunday night that the US has informed other countries that it will help "guide" their commercial ships out of the Strait of Hormuz, a move that would mark an escalation of US military operations off of Iran's...
Amid stalled peace talks and a US blockade on Iranian ports, the Trump administration has added a new member to its negotiating team who comes from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a notoriously hawkish think tank that has been lobbying for aggressive...
President Trump said on Friday that the US Navy was acting "like pirates" while enforcing the blockade against Iran, comments that affirm Tehran's characterization of the US military action, which has involved seizing ships and Iranian oil. "We … land on top of it and...
