Diplomacy, military action, intelligence, security failures and major international-policy disputes.
U.S. Central Command said Saturday, July 18, 2026 that two U.S. service members were killed in action and one is missing after Iranian ballistic-missile and drone attacks Friday on partner forces near Jordan's Muwaffaq...
The United States carried out a seventh consecutive night of strikes on Iran into July 17-18, 2026, with Iranian state media reporting at least five bridges struck in the south, seven people killed in attacks on bridges...
According to NBC News reporting on July 14, 2026 — citing six people familiar with internal estimates, including three U.S. officials — the Pentagon's internal estimate of the cost of the U.S. war with Iran is $80...
On July 14, 2026, a reinstated U.S. naval blockade of Iran took effect at 4 p.m. Eastern, with U.S. Central Command announcing enforcement against "all Iranian ports and Iranian coastal areas" and warning that...
In a July 13, 2026 social media post, President Trump announced that the United States "will be, from this point forward, known as 'THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT,'" and that it "will be reimbursed, at the rate of 20%...
The State Department announced on July 13, 2026 what it called a campaign involving "a whole-of-government response to systematically disable" the International Criminal Court's ability to operate. The announcement came...
The New York Times reported on July 11, 2026, based on interviews with more than a dozen officials and others close to both governments, that Secretary of State Marco Rubio "now effectively controls Venezuela's finances...
U.S. Central Command said it began a third round of strikes on Iran this week after Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps attacked the Cyprus-flagged container ship M/V GFS Galaxy in the Strait of Hormuz, leaving a...
The Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security announced on July 10, 2026 that it would remove the United Arab Emirates from Export Administration Regulations Country Groups D:3 and D:4 and reclassify it into...
On July 8, 2026, in Cusco, Peru, Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby told the Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas that the administration is pursuing a revamped Monroe Doctrine — informally dubbed the...