Tag: Middle East

This illustration photo created in Los Angeles on April 9, 2026 shows a Lego-style AI-generated war-themed video playing on a smartphone screen in front of a photo of US President Donald Trump and US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Shortly after news of a US-Iran ceasefire, an Iranian group released a new Lego-style video lampooning President Donald Trump and declaring "Iran won," the latest in a wave of war-themed AI-generated propaganda flooding the internet. Cartoonish video memes -- amplified by Iranian diplomatic missions and pro-Tehran accounts on social media -- are emerging as an effective tool in an intensifying information war, a phenomenon analysts have dubbed the "legofication" of war propaganda. (Photo by Chris DELMAS / AFP via Getty Images)

Can Trump survive after losing a war?

Dan Hannan · April 10, 2026 5:59 am

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu trial to resume Sunday following pause in Iran war

Mike Brest · April 9, 2026 11:06 am

People gather under a large portrait of Iran's new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, during a memorial to mark the 40th day since his father, Ali Ayatollah Khamenei, was killed in US-Israeli joint strikes, on April 9, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. On April 8 President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran, conditional on shipping being allowed to resume through the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran tries to clear up why ships aren’t passing through Strait of Hormuz

Brady Knox · April 9, 2026 10:36 am

Plumes of smoke and fire rise after debris from an intercepted Iranian drone struck an oil facility.

Beltway Confidential

Oil and gas prices will be lower but still elevated

James Rogan · April 9, 2026 6:00 am

Vice President JD Vance speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force Two

The Iran ceasefire is a pause, and it may be a short one

Washington Examiner · April 9, 2026 5:00 am

National Democrats are salivating over their latest chance to attack President Donald Trump on the economy, arguing that the White House’s latest gaffe underscores that the war in Iran is undermining Trump’s “out of touch” affordability messaging.

Trump blasts CNN and New York Times for reporting on a ‘fake ten point plan’

Washington Examiner Staff · April 9, 2026 4:52 am

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters during the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, April 6, 2026, in Washington.

Trump says US military will remain ‘in, and around, Iran’ until ‘real agreement’ is reached

Washington Examiner Staff · April 9, 2026 12:44 am

Hormuz

No oil tankers passed through Strait of Hormuz on first day of ceasefire

Brady Knox · April 8, 2026 11:09 pm

US Army

US to automatically register eligible men for military draft starting in December

Brady Knox · April 8, 2026 8:23 pm

President Donald Trump looks to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine as he speaks with reporters during a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, April 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

How Iran has changed from the start of the war until the ceasefire

Mike Brest · April 8, 2026 4:48 pm

Vice President JD Vance.

Vance to lead Iran peace talks in Pakistan: ‘The president’s right-hand man’

Hailey Bullis · April 8, 2026 3:06 pm

Workers install a billboard on an overpass containing a portrait of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Who has been killed so far during the Iran war?

Keely Bastow, David Zimmermann · April 8, 2026 12:13 pm