Tensions Rise in Middle East

US president threatens to strike power plants and bridges on Tuesday in an expletive-laden social media post.

Settlers set fire to homes and cars near Jenin amid reports of widespread violence across the occupied territory.

Donald Trump has threatened to 'obliterate' Iran’s power plants if Tehran fails to open the Strait of Hormuz.

The US president has issued a stark warning to a US ally, in a sign of rising tensions over Strait of Hormuz.

Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders on Tuesday released a U.S. researcher who had been detained in the country for over a year following pressure from the Trump administration. Dennis Coyle, who had been in captivity since January 2025, was released after his family asked the country’s government to pard

The comprehensive strategy of the the new axis of evil is succeeding — at least, to a limited extent. The swarming, Lilliputian approach of Russia, China, North Korea and Iran against the American Gulliver (the Great Satan, by the Islamic Republic’s telling) has already stoked fears in the U.S. gove

Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said the U.S. ending the war in the Middle East would practically cede control of the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20 percent of the world’s oil travels, to Iran.  “Iran right now, if we declared victory, they would now say they own the strait. You’d see a tax