United States forces struck Iran’s Qeshm Island on Monday night, US officials said, in the latest limited action in an eight-month conflict that has repeatedly rattled global energy markets. The Qeshm Island strike was reported on Tuesday by The Wall Street Journal, citing US officials, and oil prices rose in early trading as investors weighed … Read more
Iran war after midterms warnings have been delivered to several Gulf Arab countries, with the United States telling them to prepare for a possible “short, intense military campaign” against Iran after the November 3 midterm elections, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people briefed on the conversations. The messages, conveyed through diplomatic and … Read more
The Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that funnels a vast share of the world’s seaborne oil, moved to the center of a fast-escalating Middle East confrontation on Saturday as Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps declared the strait “closed” and three oil tankers were reported hit since Friday, according to Al Jazeera’s live coverage of … Read more
The Pentagon is deploying a third carrier strike group to the Middle East, adding 9,000 to 10,000 sailors and Marines to a region already hosting more than 50,000 U.S. troops, according to U.S. officials who spoke with the Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera and The National. The USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group left its … Read more
BAGHDAD — The US troops Iraq withdrawal is entering its final hours, with American forces set to pull out from their last bases in Iraq by Wednesday, September 30, closing the book on more than two decades of US military presence in a country where 4,500 Americans died, Reuters reported Tuesday. The departure, agreed in … Read more
President Donald Trump on Saturday rejected Iran‘s proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days and return to nuclear negotiations, dismissing Tehran’s offer as inadequate while oil prices surged past $107 a barrel. “I reject their proposal,” Trump told reporters before departing for Tennessee, according to the Associated Press. The president said Iranian … Read more