30 entries in the ledger
U.S. Central Command said it destroyed five more Iranian oil tankers on September 8, 2026, the Kivik, Charminar, Horizon 1, Riesco, and Derya, after the Revolutionary Guard twice targeted a U.S. Navy warship with...
On September 5, 2026, U.S. Central Command said American forces struck three Iranian oil tankers after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired two ballistic missiles at a U.S. aircraft carrier and a guided-missile...
In the Oval Office on September 4, 2026, Trump described the conflict with Iran as "small potatoes" and declined to call it a war. "A lot of people don't call it a war. I call it a military conflict because it's small...
The U.S. military struck two Iranian government-owned tankers on Sept. 1, 2026 as part of a wider round of strikes, U.S. officials told Axios. Officials described the strikes as the first carried out under a new "tanker...
In a Fox News interview published Monday, Aug. 17, 2026, President Trump said that if Oman 'gets in the way' of reopening the Strait of Hormuz, 'we'll bomb the s--- out of them.' In the same interview he said Iran should...
The administration has been looking for a current or former Cuban official who could be persuaded to take over the government in Havana, current and former U.S. officials told The New York Times on Aug. 7. Multiple...
At an August 5 rally in Las Vegas, Trump described Venezuelan oil revenue as "spoils" of the January 2026 U.S. military operation that removed President Nicolas Maduro, saying the war "lasted 48 minutes" and had paid for...
Speaking to reporters at the White House on Monday, Aug. 3, 2026, President Trump said negotiations with Iran were under way and that Tehran faced a "last chance before decapitation." Iran's foreign ministry denied the...
President Trump said in a social media post late Saturday, Aug. 1, that the United States would cancel a planned attack on Iran because Iran and other Middle Eastern countries had asked the U.S. "to hold off any attack"...
President Trump ordered the U.S. military to prepare a new attack on Iran as soon as the weekend of Aug. 1-2, 2026, the Wall Street Journal reported July 31, citing unnamed U.S. officials; the strikes are reportedly...