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Defense13 Jul
A decade after The Hague, the South China Sea has new defenders, and louder ones
Defense13 Jul
Yemeni ballistic missiles hit Abha airport in southern Saudi Arabia
Defense13 Jul
First strike, then the video: US Navy puts sea drones into combat over an Iranian dockyard
Defense13 Jul
Pentagon and DOJ move to create joint leak prosecution unit
Defense13 Jul
Ten European capitals sign up to a missile shield built around Ukraine
Defense13 Jul
Trump reinstates US naval blockade of Iran, declares Strait of Hormuz 'open with or without' Tehran
Defense13 Jul
Tankers thin in the Strait of Hormuz as Washington and Tehran trade competing declarations
Defense13 Jul
Yemen ends the de-escalation phase after Saudi strikes on Sana'a airport
Defense13 Jul
Strait of Hormuz in a 48-hour vise as Trump claims a guardianship and Iran says the corridor is shut
Defense13 Jul
Iranian Mahan Air flight lands in Sana'a after Saudi-backed Yemeni threats, transponder blackout
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
Saudi jets strike Sanaa airport to turn back an Iranian Mahan Air flight, escalating Yemen's airspace contest
Defense13 Jul
Strait of Hormuz traffic thins as US and Iran trade contradictory signals on the waterway's status
Defense13 Jul
Iran's missile display: signaling, not substance, in a morning of synchronized Tehran releases
Defense13 Jul
A quarter of Israelis are using drugs to cope. Haaretz just confirmed the figure.
Defense13 Jul
Commander of Ukraine's 155th Luchanov Brigade detained in Kyiv region
Defense13 Jul
IRGC claims strikes on US bases in Bahrain and Oman as Gulf front widens
Defense13 Jul
Strait of Hormuz traffic thins as US-Iran strikes resume and oil jumps 4%
Defense13 Jul
Missiles at the Fifth Fleet: How a Bahrain Strike Rewrote the Iran–US Posture Overnight
Defense13 Jul
Hormuz under the gun: how a 48-hour shutdown became a US-Iran test of maritime nerve
Defense13 Jul
US strikes on Iran trigger Bahrain and Jordan retaliation within hours
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
Smoke over Manama: What we know about the fire at NSA Bahrain
Defense13 Jul
CENTCOM opens a maritime front: sea drones join the strikes on Iran
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
US strikes hit western Iran as air defenses activate over Kermanshah
Defense12 Jul
US strikes on Iran ease into a pause, leaving diplomacy and escalation in the same frame
Defense12 Jul
Strait of Hormuz reopens to transit after Tehran reverses closure under US pressure
Defense12 Jul
Strikes on Kermanshah and Dezful: What the overnight US action on Iran actually tells us
Defense12 Jul
Missiles from Hormozgan and a reopened strait collide in a single Saturday
Defense12 Jul
Missiles from Kuwait: what the Telegram wire says, and what it does not
Defense12 Jul
Iraq's 'Islamic Resistance' issues pre-conditions on foreign economic deals
Defense12 Jul
Hormuz on a hair trigger: Tehran's parliamentary gun and the Gulf's shipping nerves
Defense12 Jul
US strikes Iranian missile and air-defence systems around the Strait of Hormuz, Axios reports
Defense12 Jul
US strikes Iranian missile and air-defence sites near the Strait of Hormuz
Defense12 Jul
Strait of Hormuz edge: explosions in Kuwait, Iranian state media claim fresh strikes on Qeshm and Kashm
Defense12 Jul
Iran strikes US missile unit on Kuwaiti soil, Iranian state media claims
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
Explosions in Kuwait: what the early wire shows, and what it doesn't
Defense12 Jul
Strikes on western Gaza City put a new air campaign back on the front page
Defense12 Jul
South Korea's beauty boom is hollowing out its hospital system
Defense12 Jul
Israeli jets strike metal workshop in Gaza City as evacuation order follows
Defense12 Jul
Strait of Hormuz closes and reopens in 18 hours: what the duelling claims actually say
Defense12 Jul
A viral mishap, a stolen car, and the optics of a Russian army under strain
Defense12 Jul
Oman's quiet protest, and the cost of hosting America's footprint
Defense12 Jul
Persian Gulf Strait Authority declares Hormuz closed, blames US military movements
Defense12 Jul
Zelensky pulls Svyrydenko out of the Cabinet, sends her to the international brief
Defense12 Jul
CENTCOM declares the Strait of Hormuz open: a 48-hour reversal that reveals how thin maritime deterrence has become
Defense12 Jul
Lindsey Graham dies at 71, closing a chapter of unconditional US hawkishness on Iran and Israel
Defense12 Jul
Tehran's missile salvo: what the IRGC says it fired, and what comes next
Defense12 Jul
A nine-year-old in Nuseirat, and the cost of a stray round
Defense12 Jul
Lindsey Graham dies at 70, days after his tenth wartime visit to Kyiv
Defense12 Jul
Iran's IRGC releases footage of precision ballistic strikes on US forces, framing them as retaliation for recent US attacks
Defense12 Jul
Iran signals Hormuz is a red line as funeral politics harden the rhetoric
Defense12 Jul
Three Iranian missiles land in Jordan, drawing a quiet line under a noisy week
Defense12 Jul
Iran's wartime message: Safavi frames the conflict as an existential siege
Defense12 Jul
A Week of Strikes: How Ukrainian Forces Are Squeezing Russia's Black Sea Lifeline
Defense12 Jul
Sirens in Manama: Iranian Projectile Debris Injures Three as Bahrain Reactivates Air Defences
Defense12 Jul
Tehran's army spokesman signals retaliation as regional tension stays on a hair trigger
Defense12 Jul
Qatar comes under ballistic-missile fire as Gulf confrontation widens
Defense12 Jul
Strait of Hormuz closes, and the world gets a reminder of who holds the choke points
Defense12 Jul
Iran Claims Drone Strikes on US Patriot and Radar Sites in Kuwait and Bahrain
Defense12 Jul
Explosions reported across Bahrain and Kuwait in strikes on US Fifth Fleet headquarters
Defense12 Jul
Qatar confirms missile strikes on its territory as Gulf airspace braces for further volleys
Defense12 Jul
Explosions Resume Across the Gulf as Qatar and Bahrain Report Fresh Strikes
Defense12 Jul
Iran's longest reach yet: missiles over Doha expose Gulf air-defence seams
Defense12 Jul
Iranian Army claims drone strikes on US Patriot and radar sites in Kuwait and Bahrain
Defense12 Jul
Tasnim-linked channels amplify claim of Iranian strike on US Fifth Fleet base in Bahrain
Defense12 Jul
Qatar says it downed every Iranian missile. Open-source trackers say the craters tell a different story.
Defense12 Jul
Missile alerts sound across UAE before authorities declare all clear
Defense12 Jul
Iranian missile impacts reported near U.S. Fifth Fleet base in Bahrain as Tehran widens cross-strait retaliation
Defense12 Jul
Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz, US strikes again: the day the oil chokepoint went hot
Defense12 Jul
Explosions reported across southern Iran as unverified strikes hit Bushehr, Asaluyeh and Tehran
Defense12 Jul
Israeli forces raid Qalandiya refugee camp, killing a Palestinian youth
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
Defense11 Jul
Strikes on southern Iran: what the 11 July barrage tells us
Defense11 Jul
Explosions reported across southern Iran as Tehran's air defenses activate
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
Gunfire and tanks in the Green Zone: what Baghdad's Friday night reports do and do not tell us
Defense11 Jul
Trump warns Iran: missiles ready if Tehran targets the president
Defense11 Jul
Housing bill becomes law over Trump's veto stand-off, as president warns Iran against striking US
Defense11 Jul
Justice Department subpoenas New York Times reporters over Air Force One security story
Defense11 Jul
Israeli demolition operation in southern Khan Younis draws fresh Palestinian casualty accounts
Defense11 Jul
Iran's Hormuz ultimatum sets a 48-hour clock on US naval posture
Defense11 Jul
Khanna's 90 minutes: a Democratic congressman, a settler roadblock, and a US-Israel flashpoint
Defense11 Jul
Iraq's 'resistance economy' writes itself into the post-2024 map
Defense11 Jul
Typhoon Bavi Lashes East Asia as Beijing's Maritime Posture Hardens
Defense11 Jul
Haddatha blast meets US–Lebanon pilot deal: two clocks, one southern frontier
Defense11 Jul
Mansouri struck three times in two hours as southern Lebanon ceasefire erodes
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
Israeli drone strikes Kfar Tebnit twice in an hour, Lebanese and Iranian outlets report
Defense11 Jul
Typhoon Bavi forces Taiwan, Japan and the Philippines onto war footing
Defense11 Jul
Kyiv reels from Saturday morning barrage as Patriot ammunition runs dry
Defense10 Jul
US team set to land in Beirut as Washington underwrites Israel-Lebanon deal
Defense10 Jun