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Defense31 Jul
Zelensky and Vance air-defense call puts Patriot interceptors back at the centre of the Ukraine war
Defense31 Jul
Polymarket prices Ukraine's NATO accession at 4% for 2026 as separate X post alleges Ukrainian conscript killings
Defense30 Jul
US completes two-hour strike wave on Iran; Fars reports three dead on Qeshm island
Defense29 Jul
Ukraine loses another F-16 on a combat mission as Polymarket prices a 2026 peace deal at 22%
Defense29 Jul
Russia dismisses Romanian drone complaint; Polymarket holds a 22% line on a year-end deal
Defense29 Jul
Ammunition depot near Iraqi military base in Basra explodes overnight
Defense28 Jul
Israeli minister, named variously as Katz or Gallant, says Israel wants to hit Iran's energy grid; US 'not approving' per the same recording
Defense28 Jul
Iran navy turns back six ships near Hormuz, per single Telegram post; Trump holds dual track on talks and military option
Defense28 Jul
Iran widens Hormuz threat to any party touching frozen-asset funds
Defense27 Jul
Trump says US in 'very deep talks' with Iran; Tehran denies any negotiation
Defense25 Jul
Trump pauses Iran strikes as Omani shuttle opens Hormuz track
Defense25 Jul
Iran's security council vows operations will continue 'until enemy fully surrenders'
Defense24 Jul
US reports 13th consecutive night of strikes on Iran; Polymarket prices a ceasefire by month-end at 17%
Defense24 Jul
Myanmar's army regains ground as opposition fractures, Nikkei data shows
Defense21 Jul
Zelensky fires his top general and bets the war on a younger, tech-first command
Defense21 Jul
Ten nights, one question: how a US-Iran air war redraws the global gas map
Defense21 Jul
Ukraine swaps its top general after days of street pressure
Defense21 Jul
Trump courts Aoun at the White House as Lebanon's army consolidates the south
Defense21 Jul
Artillery and displacement: what is happening in South Lebanon overnight
Defense21 Jul
Pentagon puts US troop casualty count from July attacks at 'approximately 100', opening date set as 7 July
Defense21 Jul
Lebanese president heads to Washington as Trump says Israeli army is 'in the process' of leaving Lebanon
Defense21 Jul
Israeli drone strike hits central Gaza City as wider air campaign intensifies
Defense21 Jul
Iran’s IRGC claims strikes on US-linked infrastructure across the Gulf: what the claims, and the silence, actually tell us
Defense21 Jul
Iran's heavy strike wave meets Polymarket's 44% peace odds, and the drones carry Yamal
Defense21 Jul
Hegseth pegs Iran war at US$37.5 billion as Pentagon asks Congress for more
Defense21 Jul
Aoun at the White House: Beirut puts a Hezbollah disarmament plan on Trump's desk
Defense20 Jul
US strikes enter a ninth consecutive night as Iran launches missiles toward Kuwait
Defense20 Jul
Strikes on Chabahar: Five Months Into the US-Iran War, the Map Is Quietly Redrawing
Defense20 Jul
Sirens at the Fifth Fleet: What Repeated Alerts in Bahrain Tell Us About a Widening Gulf
Defense20 Jul
Pentagon's injury count under scrutiny as Iran war enters public phase
Defense20 Jul
Nine nights over Iran: what Tehran's own media is letting through
Defense20 Jul
Satellite imagery shows fresh damage at Jordan air base, exposing a US effort to conceal wartime losses
Defense20 Jul
IRGC reaffirms loyalty to Khamenei in 'Labik' statement as regional tensions simmer
Defense20 Jul
Iran fires on vessels in Strait of Hormuz as rhetoric hardens over arms shipments
Defense20 Jul
Iran hits shipping off the UAE coast as CENTCOM logs a ninth consecutive night of strikes
Defense20 Jul
Satellite imagery shows fresh damage at Jordan's Muwaffaq al-Salti air base after Iranian missile strike
Defense20 Jul
Vessel on fire in Strait of Hormuz as CENTCOM logs ninth straight night of strikes on Iran
Defense20 Jul
Hormuz becomes the world's most expensive chokepoint on day nine
Defense20 Jul
Iran's negotiator accuses US of arming while talking peace: a familiar signal, a thin evidence trail
Defense20 Jul
FBI chief's reported Moscow trip tests a fragile channel
Defense20 Jul
Satellite imagery shows damage at US-linked site in Bahrain after reported Iranian retaliatory strike
Defense19 Jul
Eight nights in: the US-Iran exchange widens after two American deaths in Jordan
Defense19 Jul
Inside the 38th: how a Ukrainian SAM regiment keeps Russia's Shaheds out of the night sky
Defense19 Jul
Russian missile barrage hits central Kyiv, knocking out a metro entrance and reviving the question of what air defence still covers
Defense19 Jul
Russia's July 19 strike on Kyiv levels a 100,000 m² logistics hub, and points to a new targeting logic
Defense19 Jul
Russia hits Turkish-owned grain carrier leaving the Black Sea
Defense19 Jul
Pentagon builds air bridge toward Iran as Washington reopens the war book
Defense19 Jul
Kyiv under missile barrage overnight as Russia leans on long-range strikes
Defense19 Jul
Kyiv struck overnight in what monitors call the war's biggest single ballistic salvo
Defense19 Jul
Forty missiles in fifty-three minutes: Russia hits Kyiv in its heaviest ballistic barrage of the war
Defense19 Jul
Satellite imagery confirms damage to US fighter hangar in Jordan after Iranian strike
Defense19 Jul
Two US Soldiers Killed as Iranian Missiles Hit Base in Jordan
Defense19 Jul
Iranian missiles aimed at Aqaba intercepted over southern Jordan and Eilat
Defense19 Jul
Gaza ceasefire frays again as Israeli strikes on Khan Yunis wound several
Defense19 Jul
Eighth night of CENTCOM strikes pushes Iran and the US closer to the waterline
Defense19 Jul
Bahrain sirens wail as strikes test Gulf air defences
Defense18 Jul
Zelenskyy signals army shake-up after two days of consultations with Fedorov and Syrskyi
Defense18 Jul
US strikes reported across Sirik in southern Iran as Fars, Iranian officials and Telegram channels converge on a single afternoon
Defense18 Jul
US strikes hit Bandar Abbas road tunnels in widening Iran campaign
Defense18 Jul
US renews strikes on Iran after Jordan killings, in a widening escalation neither side has named
Defense18 Jul
US embassy in Beirut renews Lebanon travel ban, citing undisclosed security threats
Defense18 Jul
U.S. ATACMS launches from Kuwait: what the video tells us, and what it doesn't
Defense18 Jul
US air bridge to the Gulf: refuelling tankers escort fighters as Iran retaliates against regional hosts
Defense18 Jul
Ukrainian drones hit two Wildberries hubs deep inside Russia, exposing a logistics nerve
Defense18 Jul
Ukrainian long-range drones hit Moscow-region logistics hub as FPV strikes intensify near Donetsk
Defense18 Jul
Trump orders military to 'open the gates of hell' on Iran after two U.S. service members killed in Jordan
Defense18 Jul
Trump orders 'gates of hell' on Iran after two US soldiers killed, OSINT accounts report
Defense18 Jul
Syrskyi's seat cools as Zelenskyy weighs a third commander-in-chief
Defense18 Jul
Qatar breaks with Tehran as Iran's missile salvo wounds US troops in Jordan
Defense18 Jul
Two fires, one city: Ukrainian drones hit oil depot and Wildberries warehouse in Noginsk overnight
Defense18 Jul
Kyiv strikes Moscow and Tambov logistics hubs as Ukrainian drone campaign reaches the Russian capital's airspace
Defense18 Jul
Lebanese soldier killed in south Lebanon as Geneva accord signing looms
Defense18 Jul
Two dead at a Jordan base, fresh strikes on Iran: a 24-hour shock to the oil and chip corridors
Defense18 Jul
Israeli drone drops stun grenade and sound bombs on Majdal Zoun in south Lebanon
Defense18 Jul
Tel Aviv prepares for regional flare-up as Washington weighs intensified Iran strikes
Defense18 Jul
Fire at Muwaffaq Salti: Iranian ballistic missiles hit US barracks in Jordan
Defense18 Jul
Iranian drones hit Iraqi Kurdistan as US air defences scramble over Erbil
Defense18 Jul
Iran strikes US-aligned base in Jordan as missile exchange reshapes the regional calculus
Defense18 Jul
Iran strikes US assets in Kuwait, debris falls on Kuwaiti territory
Defense18 Jul
Iran strikes Mowafq Al-Sulti base in Jordan: what the published imagery shows
Defense18 Jul
Iran strikes US-utilised base in Jordan, opening a new front between Tehran and Washington
Defense18 Jul
Iran strikes Muwaffaq Salti: a base on Jordanian soil becomes a test of the US–Israel–Iran triangle
Defense18 Jul
Iranian missiles hit Kuwait in a widening Gulf war the world has not agreed to name
Defense18 Jul
Sirens in Al-Kharj and Yanbu: Iranian Missiles Test Saudi Air Defences
Defense18 Jul
Iranian ballistic missiles hit Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, killing two U.S. service members
Defense18 Jul
Iran's missile campaign into Jordan is rewriting the air-defence playbook
Defense18 Jul
Iran's Jordan strikes expose a quieter front in the US-Iran shadow war
Defense18 Jul
Iran strikes US-linked targets across the Gulf as reports of hits in four Arab states converge
Defense18 Jul
Iran claims strikes on US positions in Kuwait and Jordan; casualties reported on both sides of the Gulf
Defense18 Jul
Tehran's widening reach: Iran claims strikes on US bases across three Gulf monarchies
Defense18 Jul
Iran-aligned channels claim US, Jordan air defenses failed to intercept missiles at Al-Muaffaq base
Defense18 Jul
Iran's Artesh claims overnight strikes on two US bases in Kuwait
Defense18 Jul
Gerasimov's 'advance on all axes' line tells the same story three Telegram channels at once
Defense18 Jul
Drones hit one of Wildberries' largest warehouses outside Moscow
Defense18 Jul
AIPAC turns off the tap: how a donor portal became a whip in the aid-to-Israel fight
Defense17 Jul
US sends dozens of refueling planes to Israel as Iran contingency widens
Defense17 Jul
Ukraine claims strike on Russian Tu-95 bomber at Engels-2: what we know
Defense17 Jul
Sepayan Mehan breaks Taliban grip on Badakhshan district in rare daylight incursion
Defense17 Jul
A US drone called LUCAS washes up near Iran: what the Strait of Hormuz footage actually shows
Defense17 Jul
IRGC Navy commander warns US fleet is approaching "zero hour" in regional waters
Defense17 Jul
IRGC Navy issues pointed warning to US Central Command, releases close-up image of USS Iwo Jima
Defense17 Jul
Iranian drones hit PUK-linked Peshmerga depot near Sulaymaniyah
Defense17 Jul
Iranian strikes on US positions in Jordan mark a new flashpoint in the regional shadow war
Defense17 Jul
Iran's IRGC claims strike on US special operations site near al-Tanf as US air campaign enters sixth night
Defense17 Jul
Iran fires ballistic missiles from Tabriz and Khorramabad in late-night launch sequence
Defense17 Jul
Iran strikes Kurdish opposition munitions sites in Sulaymaniyah governorate
Defense17 Jul
Iran strikes a US Patriot battery near Erbil, and the Gulf balance shifts an inch
Defense17 Jul
Iran strikes Kurdish opposition bases in Sulaymaniyah as US naval blockade enters sixth day
Defense17 Jul
Iran launches ballistic missiles at US bases in Jordan in a reported retaliation
Defense17 Jul
Strike at Gaza City junction leaves one critically injured, hospital confirms
Defense17 Jul
EU imposes first sanctions package tied specifically to strikes on Kyiv, hitting five ABS Electro firms
Defense17 Jul
Drone strike hits Iranian opposition arms depot in Sulaymaniyah as footage of Iranian arrivals circulates
Defense17 Jul
Seventh night of CENTCOM strikes: the naval blockade tightens around Iran's last oil customers
Defense17 Jul
Seven nights in: CENTCOM extends Iran strike campaign into a second week
Defense17 Jul
Seven nights over Iran: what CENTCOM's sustained bombing run signals
Defense17 Jul
Bandar Abbas attack claim lands with no impact confirmed: what Hormozgan Province's overnight reports actually say
Defense16 Jul
Kyiv's second cabinet shake-up in a year puts reformist defence chief on the outside
Defense16 Jul
Zelensky confirms a Fedorov-Syrsky rift he now has to mediate himself
Defense16 Jul
US launches sixth straight night of strikes on Iran as targets shift to infrastructure
Defense16 Jul
Fedorov out, deputy air force commander out, protests in the streets: Ukraine's wartime leadership cracks
Defense16 Jul
Kyiv's defence shake-up deepens as air force deputy commander follows Fedorov out
Defense16 Jul
501 bodies repatriated to Ukraine as Moscow hands remains across the line
Defense16 Jul
Trump floats Israeli pullbacks in Lebanon and Syria as Katz holds Iran talks with Hegseth
Defense16 Jul
Trump leaves the door open as Iran talks keep running alongside the pressure campaign
Defense16 Jul
Sixty-Day Reset on the War Powers Clock: What the Latest Iran Notification Actually Does
Defense16 Jul
Six nights over Iran: what the strikes say, and what they don't
Defense16 Jul
Six nights over Iran: what the public record of the US air campaign actually shows
Defense16 Jul
Ryanair Boeing 737 accident reopens a window-and-engine question Italian investigators will not be able to ignore
Defense16 Jul
Two dead in Kyiv as Russian ballistic missiles hit Darnitsky and Svyatoshinsky overnight
Defense16 Jul
Qatar pushes back on Israeli reports of role in Iran strikes
Defense16 Jul
Pentagon stalls probe into strike on Iranian school as Trump pushes fresh 2020-election narrative
Defense16 Jul
Three Kh-59s into a residential block: Odesa strike punctuates a forecast Zelenskyy made hours earlier
Defense16 Jul
NATO's southern turn opens a quiet window for New Delhi
Defense16 Jul
Israel's war minister and the Pentagon reopen the Iran channel
Defense16 Jul
Amman rejects Tehran's 'U.S. bases' line as diplomacy strains over regional posture
Defense16 Jul
Israeli tanks sweep south Lebanon villages as ground pressure on Bint Jbeil frontier intensifies
Defense16 Jul
Israel weighs farm belt around Negev air bases, in a borrowed West Bank template
Defense16 Jul
Iran strikes US bases in Kuwait: what the first 30 minutes of reporting actually show
Defense16 Jul
Iran strikes inside Kuwait: what is confirmed, what is not, and why the Ali al-Salem claim matters
Defense16 Jul
Iran's Ninth Phase: Missiles Over Jordan and the Architecture of Escalation
Defense16 Jul
Tehran says it will keep Hormuz closed to those who ‘threaten’ it, as US Navy escorts commercial traffic
Defense16 Jul
Iran widens its drone campaign against US bases across the Gulf, hitting targets in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain
Defense16 Jul
Hours after a detained American is released, Iranian air defences engage over Tehran
Defense16 Jul
Iran signals battlefield expansion as air defence activates over Tehran and ICE filings surface
Defense16 Jul
Iran and the Gulf: What the Bahrain Strikes Tell Us About a War That Has Moved Off the Page
Defense16 Jul
IDF strikes south Lebanese village as ceasefire strain shows in Nabatieh district
Defense16 Jul
House rejects Massie amendment on Israel aid, exposing Democratic split
Defense16 Jul
House Defeats Massie Bid to End $3.3 Billion in Annual Israel Aid
Defense16 Jul
More than 100 House Democrats break with Biden's Israel package, voting to strip $3.3bn
Defense16 Jul
Hegseth and Katz hold call as US-Israel defence alignment tightens
Defense16 Jul
Fedorov out at defence ministry: protests spread across Ukrainian cities
Defense16 Jul
Fedorov's public break with Syrskyi turns a war-policy argument into a personnel fight
Defense16 Jul
Fedorov breaks ranks: Ukraine's outgoing defence minister calls for Syrskyi's removal
Defense16 Jul
Fedorov's firing collides with the war's bigger question
Defense16 Jul
F-35A emergency over the UAE: what four channels said, what none confirmed
Defense16 Jul
Bandar Abbas rocked as footage points to an Israeli hand in the Iran strikes
Defense16 Jul
All bridges out: US strikes sever Bandar Khamir's last road link to Bandar Abbas
Defense15 Jul
Zelensky puts a clock on Ukrainian Patriot output as Trump claims a Russia deal is near
Defense15 Jul
Von der Leyen lands in Kyiv with new initiatives, collects Ukraine's Order of Europe
Defense15 Jul
Vance draws a line under Iran: no American ground troops, plenty of friction with Israel
Defense15 Jul
US strikes empty tanker bound for Iranian ports as coastal bombardment widens
Defense15 Jul
Strikes, tankers, drones: a 24-hour arc of the US-Iran escalation on 15 July 2026
Defense15 Jul
Pentagon's $30 billion Iran-war estimate under scrutiny as internal US figures point to $80–100 billion real cost
Defense15 Jul
US Navy strike on Iran's Hengam Island lands as the Gulf's information war starts before the smoke clears
Defense15 Jul
Blockade, threats and 'no deal': the case the US is escalating faster than diplomacy can contain
Defense15 Jul
A $500 drone, a Mi-28, and 87 km of front: how cheap airframes are rewriting the deep-strike math
Defense15 Jul
Greta Thunberg detained in Berlin at Rheinmetall protest, activists target German arms supply chain
Defense15 Jul
Missile Launches From Tabriz Put Iran, U.S., and Jordan Inside the Same Hour
Defense15 Jul
Strait of Hormuz goes dark: Iran closes the chokepoint as US widens its bombing campaign
Defense15 Jul
Strait of Hormuz in a stranglehold: 6,000 sailors stuck as US strikes on Iran intensify
Defense15 Jul
Strikes on Sheikh Isa Air Base: What we know, and what the Iranian sources are claiming
Defense15 Jul
Lebanon and Israel to hold first online military meeting Friday as ceasefire implementation begins
Defense15 Jul
Explosions reported across Jordan; Iranian missile claims and US base activity collide in a single evening
Defense15 Jul
An Israeli death in Haifa, three months late, resets the Iran front
Defense15 Jul
IRGC claims strike on US logistics hub in Kuwait, escalates shadow war on Gulf hosting
Defense15 Jul
Iranian ballistic missiles hit Sheikh Isa Air Base in Bahrain, US confirms
Defense15 Jul
Iran hits US base in Kuwait: what the Iranian readout actually claims
Defense15 Jul
Six thousand sailors stuck as Iran keeps the Strait of Hormuz sealed
Defense15 Jul
Strait of Hormuz: Iran seals the corridor as US strikes resume and a transit-fee regime takes shape
Defense15 Jul
Hormuz on a tariff: Iran's permit bill meets a US blockade
Defense15 Jul
Tehran's phone-tracing hack lands as Trump opens the blockade gunwale
Defense15 Jul
Iranian ballistic missiles reach Jordanian airspace, at least one impacts overnight
Defense15 Jul
IDF says it killed a captor from the October 7 kidnappings; the announcement rode two Telegram channels in an hour
Defense15 Jul
Hegseth orders annual testosterone screening for US troops over 30
Defense15 Jul
Energy traders price in a longer Iran war as Chabahar strike hits southern Iran
Defense14 Jul
Houthi forces say they downed a Saudi Wing Loong II over Al-Bayda, a third strike on the Chinese-made drone in six weeks
Defense14 Jul
US naval blockade of Iran goes live at 4 PM ET as CENTCOM opens new strike wave
Defense14 Jul
US strikes on three Iranian port cities: what the wires say, and what Tehran denies
Defense14 Jul
US naval blockade of Iranian ports goes live as Army warns of retaliation
Defense14 Jul
Britain dusts off the war book: London plans its biggest home-defence exercise in decades
Defense14 Jul
Trump reframes Middle East oil posture as military-led, swaps reimbursement fee for trade framework
Defense14 Jul
Trump widens Iran target list to power plants and bridges, Tehran pulls out of bilateral commitments
Defense14 Jul
Patriot batteries engage Iranian ballistic missiles over Jordan in overnight exchange
Defense14 Jul
Tehran accuses Washington of blackmailing ICC member states to shield Israeli officials from prosecution
Defense14 Jul
Iran strikes Bahrain, US reimposes naval blockade as the Gulf slides into its fourth day of open war
Defense14 Jul
Iran's Strait of Hormuz ultimatum lands hours after US 'aggression'
Defense14 Jul
Iran strikes US positions at Jordan's Al-Azraq base in seventh phase of Operation Sa'egheh
Defense14 Jul
Tehran publishes damage imagery as US-Iran memorandum enters 'crisis phase'
Defense14 Jul
Iran's SS7 playbook: how Tehran turned mobile-network flaws into a targeting layer for US troops
Defense14 Jul
Iran's wartime cellular footprint and Trump's 'bully' frame expose the limits of US signalling in the Gulf
Defense14 Jul
Iran strikes Isa Air Base and NSA Bahrain in major ballistic-missile barrage
Defense14 Jul
Iran strikes Bahrain and absorbs US airstrikes as 14 July escalation widens Gulf front
Defense14 Jul
Drone strike detonates ammunition depot in occupied Donetsk
Defense14 Jul
CENTCOM reimposes Strait of Hormuz blockade as Iran exploit report reveals targeting edge
Defense14 Jul
Yemen's Ansarallah warns airlines off Saudi airspace, escalates airport siege standoff
Defense13 Jul
Yemeni ballistic missiles hit Abha airport in southern Saudi Arabia
Defense13 Jul
Yemen ends the de-escalation phase after Saudi strikes on Sana'a airport
Defense13 Jul
US strikes hit western Iran as air defenses activate over Kermanshah
Defense13 Jul
First strike, then the video: US Navy puts sea drones into combat over an Iranian dockyard
Defense13 Jul
US strikes on Iran trigger Bahrain and Jordan retaliation within hours
Defense13 Jul
Ukraine asks for 300 Patriot interceptors as Trump signals licensed production on Ukrainian soil
Defense13 Jul
Trump reinstates US naval blockade of Iran, declares Strait of Hormuz 'open with or without' Tehran
Defense13 Jul
Trump tells Congress the truce with Iran is over, formalising a return to hostilities
Defense13 Jul
Strait of Hormuz traffic thins as US and Iran trade contradictory signals on the waterway's status
Defense13 Jul
Strait of Hormuz in a 48-hour vise as Trump claims a guardianship and Iran says the corridor is shut
Defense13 Jul
A decade after The Hague, the South China Sea has new defenders, and louder ones
Defense13 Jul
Saudi Arabia intercepts Ansar Allah missile salvo as group names airports as targets
Defense13 Jul
Saudi jets strike Sanaa airport to turn back an Iranian Mahan Air flight, escalating Yemen's airspace contest
Defense13 Jul
Pentagon and DOJ move to create joint leak prosecution unit
Defense13 Jul
Pentagon–DOJ leak task force lands as a fourth batch of UAP files goes public
Defense13 Jul
Smoke over Manama: What we know about the fire at NSA Bahrain
Defense13 Jul
An MQ-1 went down in the Strait of Hormuz. The type of drone matters more than the loss.
Defense13 Jul
Iranian Mahan Air flight lands in Sana'a after Saudi-backed Yemeni threats, transponder blackout
Defense13 Jul
Commander of Ukraine's 155th Luchanov Brigade detained in Kyiv region
Defense13 Jul
A quarter of Israelis are using drugs to cope. Haaretz just confirmed the figure.
Defense13 Jul
IRGC claims strikes on US bases in Bahrain and Oman as Gulf front widens
Defense13 Jul
IRGC claims strikes on two US air bases in Kuwait; Patriot battery and fuel tanks named as targets
Defense13 Jul
Iranian drones strike US positions in Kuwait as regional escalation widens
Defense13 Jul
Iran strikes US Fifth Fleet base in Bahrain in major regional escalation
Defense13 Jul
Iran strikes Jordan: what we know from the wires
Defense13 Jul
Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz to most traffic as US Navy trades fire in the waterway
Defense13 Jul
Missiles at the Fifth Fleet: How a Bahrain Strike Rewrote the Iran–US Posture Overnight
Defense13 Jul
Iran's missile display: signaling, not substance, in a morning of synchronized Tehran releases
Defense13 Jul
Houthis return fire on Saudi soil after a four-year pause
Defense13 Jul
Strait of Hormuz traffic thins as US-Iran strikes resume and oil jumps 4%
Defense13 Jul
Hormuz under the gun: how a 48-hour shutdown became a US-Iran test of maritime nerve
Defense13 Jul
Hormuz opens, then closes, then opens again: 48 hours that put a fifth of the world's oil on a knife-edge
Defense13 Jul
Hormuz in flames: how a 20% cargo levy and a collapsing negotiation put the Strait back on a war footing
Defense13 Jul
Tankers thin in the Strait of Hormuz as Washington and Tehran trade competing declarations
Defense13 Jul
CENTCOM opens a maritime front: sea drones join the strikes on Iran
Defense13 Jul
Ten European capitals sign up to a missile shield built around Ukraine
Defense12 Jul
Zelensky pulls Svyrydenko out of the Cabinet, sends her to the international brief
Defense12 Jul
US strikes Iranian missile and air-defence sites near the Strait of Hormuz
Defense12 Jul
US strikes Iranian missile and air-defence systems around the Strait of Hormuz, Axios reports
Defense12 Jul
Strikes on Kermanshah and Dezful: What the overnight US action on Iran actually tells us
Defense12 Jul
US strikes on Iran ease into a pause, leaving diplomacy and escalation in the same frame
Defense12 Jul
A Week of Strikes: How Ukrainian Forces Are Squeezing Russia's Black Sea Lifeline
Defense12 Jul
Missile alerts sound across UAE before authorities declare all clear
Defense12 Jul
A nine-year-old in Nuseirat, and the cost of a stray round
Defense12 Jul
Tasnim-linked channels amplify claim of Iranian strike on US Fifth Fleet base in Bahrain
Defense12 Jul
Strait of Hormuz reopens to transit after Tehran reverses closure under US pressure
Defense12 Jul
Strait of Hormuz edge: explosions in Kuwait, Iranian state media claim fresh strikes on Qeshm and Kashm
Defense12 Jul
Strait of Hormuz closes and reopens in 18 hours: what the duelling claims actually say
Defense12 Jul
Strait of Hormuz closes, and the world gets a reminder of who holds the choke points
Defense12 Jul
South Korea's beauty boom is hollowing out its hospital system
Defense12 Jul
Missiles from Hormozgan and a reopened strait collide in a single Saturday
Defense12 Jul
A viral mishap, a stolen car, and the optics of a Russian army under strain
Defense12 Jul
Qatar confirms missile strikes on its territory as Gulf airspace braces for further volleys
Defense12 Jul
Qatar says it downed every Iranian missile. Open-source trackers say the craters tell a different story.
Defense12 Jul
Qatar comes under ballistic-missile fire as Gulf confrontation widens
Defense12 Jul
Persian Gulf Strait Authority declares Hormuz closed, blames US military movements
Defense12 Jul
Oman's quiet protest, and the cost of hosting America's footprint
Defense12 Jul
Missiles from Kuwait: what the Telegram wire says, and what it does not
Defense12 Jul
Lindsey Graham dies at 70, days after his tenth wartime visit to Kyiv
Defense12 Jul
Lindsey Graham dies at 71, closing a chapter of unconditional US hawkishness on Iran and Israel
Defense12 Jul
Explosions in Kuwait: what the early wire shows, and what it doesn't
Defense12 Jul
Israeli forces raid Qalandiya refugee camp, killing a Palestinian youth
Defense12 Jul
Iran's IRGC releases footage of precision ballistic strikes on US forces, framing them as retaliation for recent US attacks
Defense12 Jul
IRGC missile strike on cargo ship in Strait of Hormuz triggers US counterstrikes on Iranian targets
Defense12 Jul
IRGC Navy declares Strait of Hormuz closed; CENTCOM reports third US strike wave
Defense12 Jul
Iraq's 'Islamic Resistance' issues pre-conditions on foreign economic deals
Defense12 Jul
A destroyed battery, a 45% market, and a threat to flatten Iran: reading the 48 hours between a strike and a deadline
Defense12 Jul
Iran strikes US missile unit on Kuwaiti soil, Iranian state media claims
Defense12 Jul
Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz, US strikes again: the day the oil chokepoint went hot
Defense12 Jul
Iran's wartime message: Safavi frames the conflict as an existential siege
Defense12 Jul
Three Iranian missiles land in Jordan, drawing a quiet line under a noisy week
Defense12 Jul
Iranian missile impacts reported near U.S. Fifth Fleet base in Bahrain as Tehran widens cross-strait retaliation
Defense12 Jul
Tehran's missile salvo: what the IRGC says it fired, and what comes next
Defense12 Jul
Iran signals Hormuz is a red line as funeral politics harden the rhetoric
Defense12 Jul
Iran's longest reach yet: missiles over Doha expose Gulf air-defence seams
Defense12 Jul
Explosions reported across southern Iran as unverified strikes hit Bushehr, Asaluyeh and Tehran
Defense12 Jul
Iran Claims Drone Strikes on US Patriot and Radar Sites in Kuwait and Bahrain
Defense12 Jul
Iranian Army claims drone strikes on US Patriot and radar sites in Kuwait and Bahrain
Defense12 Jul
Tehran's army spokesman signals retaliation as regional tension stays on a hair trigger
Defense12 Jul
Hormuz on a hair trigger: Tehran's parliamentary gun and the Gulf's shipping nerves
Defense12 Jul
Explosions Resume Across the Gulf as Qatar and Bahrain Report Fresh Strikes
Defense12 Jul
Strikes on western Gaza City put a new air campaign back on the front page
Defense12 Jul
Israeli jets strike metal workshop in Gaza City as evacuation order follows
Defense12 Jul
CENTCOM declares the Strait of Hormuz open: a 48-hour reversal that reveals how thin maritime deterrence has become
Defense12 Jul
Sirens in Manama: Iranian Projectile Debris Injures Three as Bahrain Reactivates Air Defences
Defense12 Jul
Explosions reported across Bahrain and Kuwait in strikes on US Fifth Fleet headquarters
Defense11 Jul
Strikes on southern Iran: what the 11 July barrage tells us
Defense11 Jul
U.S. tanker and F-16 patrol over the Middle East as Air Force chatter spikes: what the late-July 11 traffic tells us
Defense11 Jul
Typhoon Bavi Lashes East Asia as Beijing's Maritime Posture Hardens
Defense11 Jul
Typhoon Bavi forces Taiwan, Japan and the Philippines onto war footing
Defense11 Jul
Trump warns Iran: missiles ready if Tehran targets the president
Defense11 Jul
Mansouri struck three times in two hours as southern Lebanon ceasefire erodes
Defense11 Jul
Kyiv reels from Saturday morning barrage as Patriot ammunition runs dry
Defense11 Jul
Khanna's 90 minutes: a Democratic congressman, a settler roadblock, and a US-Israel flashpoint
Defense11 Jul
Israeli demolition operation in southern Khan Younis draws fresh Palestinian casualty accounts
Defense11 Jul
Israeli drone strikes Kfar Tebnit twice in an hour, Lebanese and Iranian outlets report
Defense11 Jul
Israeli strikes return to Mansouri as southern Lebanon ceasefire erodes
Defense11 Jul
Israel publishes first cumulative casualty figure from the Lebanon ground operation: 1,461 soldiers injured
Defense11 Jul
Iraq's 'resistance economy' writes itself into the post-2024 map
Defense11 Jul
Iran's Hormuz ultimatum sets a 48-hour clock on US naval posture
Defense11 Jul
Housing bill becomes law over Trump's veto stand-off, as president warns Iran against striking US
Defense11 Jul
Haddatha blast meets US–Lebanon pilot deal: two clocks, one southern frontier
Defense11 Jul
Explosions reported across southern Iran as Tehran's air defenses activate
Defense11 Jul
Justice Department subpoenas New York Times reporters over Air Force One security story
Defense11 Jul
Gunfire and tanks in the Green Zone: what Baghdad's Friday night reports do and do not tell us
Defense10 Jul