The White House is exploring troop repositioning as leverage against NATO holdouts — but analysts warn pulling forces from Germany and Spain weakens U.S. deterrence against Russia more than it punishes European governments
New assessments say Iran retains thousands of missiles and could retrieve launchers — undercutting the administration's case that airstrikes left Iran too weak to threaten the region
U.S. and Iranian delegations arrive in Islamabad for the highest-level engagement since 1979 — but the gap between public posture and negotiating reality may be the biggest obstacle in the room
As Vance lands in Islamabad, a pattern of Friday threats and Monday walk-backs raises a harder question
The Iran war cracked open a months-long standoff between the White House and the first American pope
Q4 2025 GDP hit 0.5 percent in its final estimate — a shutdown-scarred number that the Iran war is making harder to recover from
Survivors say their unit had no defenses. Hegseth called it a fortified position hit by a "squirter." The two accounts cannot both be true.
The IRGC's mine map is the first official confirmation that the waterway is mined, not just threatened. Ships without authorization will be "targeted and destroyed."