The United States launched new airstrikes against Iran early Thursday, and Tehran responded by targeting Bahrain, Kuwait and ...

"You want to spread out that necklace of bases far to the west," former CENTCOM commander General Kenneth McKenzie, Jr. said.

Most discussions of Iran revolve around oil, escalation, and regime change. Yet Iran today feels easier to understand as part of a much older pattern. For more than 2,500 years, states on the Iranian ...

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term. In 1986, the British historian Correlli Barnett published The Audit ...

Months of war and a blockade have battered Iran .Its navy is at the bottom of the Persian Gulf. Its air force is destroyed. Its economy is in ruins.

Three kinds of events have historically pushed the United States into recessions: financial crises, oil price shocks and pandemics. The U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran have already brought about the ...

Unless a resolution is found, the impact is likely to grow. Ad Policy Satellite view of the Salalah oil storage fire after Iranian drone attack, on March 13, 2026.(Gallo Images / Orbital ...

Trump may be bluffing, but just over a century and a half ago, there was a conflict that in some ways could mirror Trump’s strategy. In 1856, the Persian shah Nasir al-Din was just 25 years old when ...

Persian Gulf War veterans will be recognized for their service during a pinning ceremony hosted by the Nathan Perry Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution on Aug. 2 at ...

Facebook-parent Meta is one of the latest technology companies to be affected by the ongoing war between Iran, and the US and Israel. The company has reportedly paused work on a segment of its 2Africa ...