Tag: Middle East

Plumes of smoke rise as strikes hit the city during the U.S.–Israeli military campaign in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Khamenei’s secret bunker under Tehran destroyed by Israeli military jet bombardment

Brady Knox · March 6, 2026 11:14 am

Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun, third left, walks near Iran Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh.

Iran’s international allies fail to show up with force in face of US war

Brady Knox · March 6, 2026 10:54 am

Smoke rises from Israeli airstrikes in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon.

Israel pounds Beirut suburb with strikes in offensive against Hezbollah infrastructure

Molly Parks · March 6, 2026 10:42 am

President Donald Trump meets with reporters at the White House, March 3, 2026. (AndrewCaballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty)

Trump says there will be no deal with Iran outside of ‘UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER’

Brady Knox, Christian Datoc · March 6, 2026 9:34 am

A German plane takes off from an airport in Oman

Hundreds turn to private rescue company for Middle East evacuations

Mike Brest, Timothy Nerozzi · March 6, 2026 8:00 am

Daily on Defense

Daily on Defense

Week one of ‘Epic Fury’: Trump says the US is ‘far ahead of schedule’

Jamie McIntyre · March 6, 2026 7:16 am

President Donald Trump examines a new statue of Thomas Jefferson in the Rose Garden after returning to the White House on March 1. Trump ordered strikes against Iran while spending the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. (Peter W. Stevenson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump’s epic gamble on Epic Fury

Jamie McIntyre · March 6, 2026 6:08 am

A plume of smoke rises following a U.S.-Israeli military strike in Tehran, Iran on March 3, 2026.

Succession, Tehran style

John Scott Lewinski · March 6, 2026 6:07 am

President Donald Trump answers a question from a reporter at the end of a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago in Florida on Dec. 29, 2025. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Iran war certain to impact wind-down of US military aid to Israel

Michele Chabin · March 6, 2026 6:03 am

A missile is launched from an American aircraft carrier

Courage, Strength, and Optimism

Trump flexing military muscles on Iran in front of the whole world is peace through strength

Rep. Sheri Biggs, Rep. Matt Van Epps · March 6, 2026 6:00 am

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted an area in Beirut's southern suburbs on March 6, 2026. Fresh strikes rocked Iran and Lebanon on March 6, as Israel vowed to escalate to a new phase in the Middle East war that has spiralled rapidly throughout the region and beyond. (Photo by IBRAHIM AMRO / AFP via Getty Images)

Iran started this war a long time ago

Dan Hannan · March 6, 2026 5:49 am

A large crowd of demonstrators gather near the Federal Building in the Westwood area to celebrate and call for freedom for the Iranian people in the wake of U.S.-Israel attacks on Iran that killed Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on March 1, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images)

Trump’s Mideast revolution: A chance to transform the world’s most turbulent region

Hugo Gurdon · March 6, 2026 5:21 am