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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
Strike at Gaza City junction leaves one critically injured, hospital confirms
Defense17 Jul
Iran strikes a US Patriot battery near Erbil, and the Gulf balance shifts an inch
Defense16 Jul
Iran and the Gulf: What the Bahrain Strikes Tell Us About a War That Has Moved Off the Page
Defense16 Jul
Trump leaves the door open as Iran talks keep running alongside the pressure campaign
Defense16 Jul
Iran strikes US bases in Kuwait: what the first 30 minutes of reporting actually show
Defense16 Jul
US launches sixth straight night of strikes on Iran as targets shift to infrastructure
Defense16 Jul
All bridges out: US strikes sever Bandar Khamir's last road link to Bandar Abbas
Defense16 Jul
Six nights over Iran: what the public record of the US air campaign actually shows
Defense16 Jul
F-35A emergency over the UAE: what four channels said, what none confirmed
Defense16 Jul
Six nights over Iran: what the strikes say, and what they don't
Defense16 Jul
Three Kh-59s into a residential block: Odesa strike punctuates a forecast Zelenskyy made hours earlier
Defense16 Jul
Qatar pushes back on Israeli reports of role in Iran strikes
Defense16 Jul
More than 100 House Democrats break with Biden's Israel package, voting to strip $3.3bn
Defense16 Jul
Amman rejects Tehran's 'U.S. bases' line as diplomacy strains over regional posture
Defense16 Jul
House rejects Massie amendment on Israel aid, exposing Democratic split
Defense16 Jul
NATO's southern turn opens a quiet window for New Delhi
Defense16 Jul
Israeli tanks sweep south Lebanon villages as ground pressure on Bint Jbeil frontier intensifies
Defense16 Jul
Pentagon stalls probe into strike on Iranian school as Trump pushes fresh 2020-election narrative
Defense16 Jul
Israel weighs farm belt around Negev air bases, in a borrowed West Bank template
Defense16 Jul
Fedorov out at defence ministry: protests spread across Ukrainian cities
Defense16 Jul
Bandar Abbas rocked as footage points to an Israeli hand in the Iran strikes
Defense16 Jul
Zelensky confirms a Fedorov-Syrsky rift he now has to mediate himself
Defense16 Jul
Kyiv's defence shake-up deepens as air force deputy commander follows Fedorov out
Defense16 Jul
IDF strikes south Lebanese village as ceasefire strain shows in Nabatieh district
Defense16 Jul
501 bodies repatriated to Ukraine as Moscow hands remains across the line
Defense16 Jul
Tehran says it will keep Hormuz closed to those who ‘threaten’ it, as US Navy escorts commercial traffic
Defense16 Jul
Fedorov's public break with Syrskyi turns a war-policy argument into a personnel fight
Defense16 Jul
Fedorov's firing collides with the war's bigger question
Defense16 Jul
Fedorov breaks ranks: Ukraine's outgoing defence minister calls for Syrskyi's removal
Defense16 Jul
Israel's war minister and the Pentagon reopen the Iran channel
Defense16 Jul
Kyiv's second cabinet shake-up in a year puts reformist defence chief on the outside
Defense16 Jul
Trump floats Israeli pullbacks in Lebanon and Syria as Katz holds Iran talks with Hegseth
Defense16 Jul
Fedorov out, deputy air force commander out, protests in the streets: Ukraine's wartime leadership cracks
Defense16 Jul
House Defeats Massie Bid to End $3.3 Billion in Annual Israel Aid
Defense16 Jul
Iran signals battlefield expansion as air defence activates over Tehran and ICE filings surface
Defense16 Jul
Ryanair Boeing 737 accident reopens a window-and-engine question Italian investigators will not be able to ignore
Defense16 Jul
Hegseth and Katz hold call as US-Israel defence alignment tightens
Defense16 Jul
Two dead in Kyiv as Russian ballistic missiles hit Darnitsky and Svyatoshinsky overnight
Defense16 Jul
Iran widens its drone campaign against US bases across the Gulf, hitting targets in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain
Defense16 Jul
Iran's Ninth Phase: Missiles Over Jordan and the Architecture of Escalation
Defense16 Jul
Sixty-Day Reset on the War Powers Clock: What the Latest Iran Notification Actually Does
Defense16 Jul
Hours after a detained American is released, Iranian air defences engage over Tehran
Defense16 Jul
Iran strikes inside Kuwait: what is confirmed, what is not, and why the Ali al-Salem claim matters
Defense15 Jul
Strikes, tankers, drones: a 24-hour arc of the US-Iran escalation on 15 July 2026
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
Iranian ballistic missiles hit Sheikh Isa Air Base in Bahrain, US confirms
Defense15 Jul
Energy traders price in a longer Iran war as Chabahar strike hits southern Iran
Defense15 Jul
Strikes on Sheikh Isa Air Base: What we know, and what the Iranian sources are claiming
Defense15 Jul
Hegseth orders annual testosterone screening for US troops over 30
Defense15 Jul
Iran hits US base in Kuwait: what the Iranian readout actually claims
Defense15 Jul
Zelensky puts a clock on Ukrainian Patriot output as Trump claims a Russia deal is near
Defense15 Jul
US Navy strike on Iran's Hengam Island lands as the Gulf's information war starts before the smoke clears
Defense15 Jul
Lebanon and Israel to hold first online military meeting Friday as ceasefire implementation begins
Defense15 Jul
Tehran's phone-tracing hack lands as Trump opens the blockade gunwale
Defense15 Jul
IDF says it killed a captor from the October 7 kidnappings; the announcement rode two Telegram channels in an hour
Defense15 Jul
Strait of Hormuz goes dark: Iran closes the chokepoint as US widens its bombing campaign
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
Strait of Hormuz in a stranglehold: 6,000 sailors stuck as US strikes on Iran intensify
Defense15 Jul
Pentagon's $30 billion Iran-war estimate under scrutiny as internal US figures point to $80–100 billion real cost
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
Von der Leyen lands in Kyiv with new initiatives, collects Ukraine's Order of Europe
Defense15 Jul
Hormuz on a tariff: Iran's permit bill meets a US blockade
Defense15 Jul
An Israeli death in Haifa, three months late, resets the Iran front
Defense15 Jul
Iranian ballistic missiles reach Jordanian airspace, at least one impacts overnight
Defense15 Jul
Blockade, threats and 'no deal': the case the US is escalating faster than diplomacy can contain
Defense15 Jul
IRGC claims strike on US logistics hub in Kuwait, escalates shadow war on Gulf hosting
Defense15 Jul
Missile Launches From Tabriz Put Iran, U.S., and Jordan Inside the Same Hour
Defense15 Jul
Explosions reported across Jordan; Iranian missile claims and US base activity collide in a single evening
Defense14 Jul
Patriot batteries engage Iranian ballistic missiles over Jordan in overnight exchange
Defense14 Jul
Iran strikes US positions at Jordan's Al-Azraq base in seventh phase of Operation Sa'egheh
Defense14 Jul
Iran strikes Bahrain, US reimposes naval blockade as the Gulf slides into its fourth day of open war
Defense14 Jul
Trump widens Iran target list to power plants and bridges, Tehran pulls out of bilateral commitments
Defense14 Jul
US naval blockade of Iranian ports goes live as Army warns of retaliation
Defense14 Jul
CENTCOM reimposes Strait of Hormuz blockade as Iran exploit report reveals targeting edge
Defense14 Jul
US naval blockade of Iran goes live at 4 PM ET as CENTCOM opens new strike wave
Defense14 Jul
Iran strikes Bahrain and absorbs US airstrikes as 14 July escalation widens Gulf front
Defense14 Jul
Tehran publishes damage imagery as US-Iran memorandum enters 'crisis phase'
Defense14 Jul
Tehran accuses Washington of blackmailing ICC member states to shield Israeli officials from prosecution
Defense14 Jul
Iran strikes Isa Air Base and NSA Bahrain in major ballistic-missile barrage
Defense14 Jul
Iran's Strait of Hormuz ultimatum lands hours after US 'aggression'
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
Trump reframes Middle East oil posture as military-led, swaps reimbursement fee for trade framework
Defense14 Jul
Iran's wartime cellular footprint and Trump's 'bully' frame expose the limits of US signalling in the Gulf
Defense14 Jul
Iran's SS7 playbook: how Tehran turned mobile-network flaws into a targeting layer for US troops
Defense14 Jul
Yemen's Ansarallah warns airlines off Saudi airspace, escalates airport siege standoff
Defense14 Jul
Britain dusts off the war book: London plans its biggest home-defence exercise in decades
Defense14 Jul
Drone strike detonates ammunition depot in occupied Donetsk
Defense14 Jul
US strikes on three Iranian port cities: what the wires say, and what Tehran denies
Defense13 Jul
An MQ-1 went down in the Strait of Hormuz. The type of drone matters more than the loss.
Defense13 Jul
Ukraine asks for 300 Patriot interceptors as Trump signals licensed production on Ukrainian soil
Defense13 Jul
Trump tells Congress the truce with Iran is over, formalising a return to hostilities
Defense13 Jul
Pentagon–DOJ leak task force lands as a fourth batch of UAP files goes public
Defense13 Jul
Hormuz in flames: how a 20% cargo levy and a collapsing negotiation put the Strait back on a war footing
Defense13 Jul
Saudi Arabia intercepts Ansar Allah missile salvo as group names airports as targets
Defense13 Jul