(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The White House is expected to ask Congress for an extra $50 billion in military spending to replenish stockpiles of weapons used in the Iran war and other recent Middle East conflicts, Reuters has reported.
Sources told Reuters that Deputy Secretary of War Steve Feinberg has been...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump is open to backing militant groups who are willing to fight the Iranian government, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
Among the groups Trump is considering supporting are Kurdish forces based in Iraq, who have thousands of troops along the Iran-Iraq border, an idea...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Adding to the mixed messaging coming from the Trump administration regarding the war with Iran, President Trump suggested on Tuesday that he may have “forced Israel’s hand” when the conflict started.
The president was responding to a question about Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said on Mondaythat...
(José Niño, Headline USA) In December 2018, Jeffrey Epstein sent a series of private messages predicting that Donald Trump would bomb Iran if he ever felt politically cornered. Seven years later, Trump did exactly that.
The messages, recovered from Epstein's MacBook and released by the DOJ as part of the...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday said that the US launched a war against Iran because Israel was planning to attack, an admission that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu steered the US into the conflict.
“It was abundantly clear that if Iran came under attack by...
(The Center Square) The number of American service members killed in action as part of Operation Epic Fury has climbed from four to six, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio vows “the hardest hits are yet to come from the U.S. military.”
CENTCOM announced that two additional service members had...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump said in an interview with The New York Post on Monday that he won’t rule out sending troops into Iran as the war the US and Israel launched against the Islamic Republic on Saturday morning continues to rage.
“I don’t have the yips with respect...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Former US House Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Sunday urged Vice President JD Vance and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to speak out against the US war against Iran, citing their previous opposition to a conflict with the Islamic Republic.
“ and you both need...
(Headline USA) Three American fighter jets were mistakenly downed by friendly Kuwaiti fire Monday during an Iranian air assault, the U.S. military said.
All six crew members safely ejected from the F-15E Strike Eagles and were in stable condition after being recovered, the U.S. said.
An attack by Iranian aircraft, missiles and...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Before the US and Israel launched a war against Iran on Saturday morning and killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the CIA assessed that if the Iranian leader were killed, his rule would likely be replaced by “hardline” figures from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Reuters has reported.
The report...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump said in an interview with the Daily Mail on Sunday that he expects his new war with Iran to last “four weeks or so” as US and Israeli strikes continue to pound Iran and Iranian missiles and drones continue to make an impact in Israel...
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) Nine Iranian ships have been “destroyed and sunk” by U.S. forces as part of Operation Epic Fury, according to President Donald Trump.
The president’s announcement comes as the joint coordinated U.S.-Israeli strikes enter their second day.
“I have just been informed that we have destroyed and...