FOREIGN AFFAIRS

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Iranian Health Ministry officials said on Wednesday that a series of US strikes that hit targets across Iran’s southern coast on Tuesday killed at least 18 people and wounded 108. Among the dead were security personnel and civilians, including civilians who were killed by a US strike...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump on Wednesday again claimed that the Strait of Hormuz was under US “control” and suggested he may rename it the “Trump Strait,” comments that came as Iran’s IRGC said that two tankers attempting to cross the strait hit Iranian mines. “Now that we have...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Lianys Torres Rivera, Cuba’s top diplomat in the US, has told Bloomberg that the Trump administration is unwilling to continue talks with the island nation and described the ramped-up US oil embargo, which has caused a devastating humanitarian crisis in the country, as a “war without...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Vice President JD Vance spoke at a Republican Jewish Coalition event on Monday, where he called the US-Israel relationship “one of the most important alliances in the world” and discussed how to sell the special relationship to the growing number of skeptics in the United States. What...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) A US strike in southern Iran on Tuesday hit a residential building where a wedding reception was taking place, according to local Iranian officials and the Iranian Red Crescent. Ahmad Nafisi, the deputy governor of Iran’s Hormozgan Province, told Iranian media the strike hit a home in...

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he is nominating acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao for the permanent job, giving the Navy combat veteran the nod as concerns have emerged that some sailors have been stretched to the limit during the Iran war. Cao has been serving as acting...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has boasted of his efforts to convince the US to launch a war against Iran, crediting his frequent appearances on US television networks and his “intimate knowledge” of US leaders. Netanyahu made the comments Sunday night on Israel’s Channel 14, and a clip...

(Headline USA) Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is stepping down after 18 months on the job, the White House said Monday, in the latest departure of a top military leader during the Trump administration. No reason was given for the departure of Driscoll, who is a friend of Vice President JD Vance,...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Washington Post revealed Sunday that several major online influencers are on the Pentagon’s payroll, pumping out propaganda supportive of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Trump administration’s war in Iran. According to the Post, the online influencers paid by the Pentagon include retired Air Force...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) On August 28, US forces boarded a boat off the coast of Ecuador, removed the crew, and then blew up the vessel to sink it, according to a press release from US Southern Command and testimony from the Ecuadorian crew members, as the US continues expanding its...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US on Sunday bombed Iran’s Larak Island, a small island off the coast of Bandar Abbas in the Strait of Hormuz, marking the first known US strikes on Iranian territory in more than a month. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) quickly responded to the US...

(Will Porter, Antiwar.com) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly held direct talks with a senior Hamas member during the deadly 2014 war in Gaza, according to Israeli media. The dialogue was said to have been arranged “behind the backs of the establishment.” Reported by the Hebrew-language outlet Walla on Thursday, the...