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The US evacuates part of its embassy staff in Lebanon, this as Iran warns of the risk of escalation should Washington strike. A second US ai...

The U.S. and Iran are set to resume nuclear talks in Geneva in what could be the last best chance for a deal. Meanwhile, U.S. warships loom...

The U.S. has built up one of its biggest military deployments in the Middle ⁠East, while Iran has threatened to strike American bases in the...

Military planners are advising President Trump that any strike on Tehran's assets would almost certainly not be a singular, decisive blow.

The possibility of war with Iran is still very much a possibility, according to Donald Trump.Top U.S. military officials have reportedly war...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent admitted that Washington helped spark recent protests in Iran by creating a U.S. dollar shortage, leading t...

A decision as consequential as this one deserves a real debate in Congress.

Diplomacy continues despite the significant United States military build-up.

Forget the capture of Nicolas Maduro in Caracas and those zero U.S. casualties.Iran’s not Venezuela.

The Trump administration may have finally blinked, also knowing that yet another US-led war in the Middle East remains deeply unpopular amon...

Billions in oil funds have not been returned to Iran as transparency fades amid efforts to circumvent biting sanctions.

Last September I produced a brief survey of major conflict across the globe in which I wrote the following about the conflict with Iran and...

Students across Iran have launched anti-government protests, the largest demonstrations of this kind since the authorities’ deadly crackdown...

Iranian authorities killed thousands of protesters in a brutal crackdown last month