Pentagon planners are preparing raids on Kharg Island and coastal sites near the Strait of Hormuz. Whether Trump signs off — and what happens if he does — is the question defining the war's next phase.
The IRGC didn't target a military base or a shipping lane. It struck aluminium smelters — the industrial backbone of Gulf economies that account for 9 percent of global supply.
Pakistan got 20 ships cleared. India moved six LPG tankers through. Neither coordinated with the other — and both had to accept Tehran's terms at a checkpoint that may soon become permanent law.
North Korea just tested the most powerful solid-fuel rocket engine in its history — a 2,500 kilonewton system designed for ICBMs that launch in minutes, not hours. The war in the Middle East ensured almost nobody noticed.
The USS Tripoli just put 3,500 Marines and F-35 fighters within striking distance of Iran's coast. Kuwait's international airport is smouldering, the Houthis have opened fire on Israel, and the war is one month old.
A suspect recruited on Snapchat for €600 tried to ignite a homemade bomb outside Bank of America's Paris headquarters. The Iran war has reached Europe — one disposable agent at a time.
Four precision missiles destroyed a clearly marked press vehicle in southern Lebanon, killing three journalists. Israel called one a terrorist, offered no evidence, and said nothing about the other two.
A projectile struck inside Iran's only nuclear power plant this week — the third near-miss in ten days. Russia is evacuating the engineers who keep the reactor running.
Sudan's civil war has killed more than 500 people with drones since January alone. Last week, 28 more died — in a market and on a highway — and almost nobody noticed.
Iran invented the Shahed drone. Russia spent three years perfecting it against Western air defenses in Ukraine. Now the combat-refined versions are flowing back to Tehran — carrying technology the Pentagon hasn't faced before.
Yemen's Houthis fired ballistic missiles at Israeli military positions for the first time since the war began. Israel says it intercepted one. The question now is whether they shut down Bab al-Mandab next.
Eighteen Venezuelan men describe beatings, sexual assault, and psychological terror at El Salvador's CECOT prison. Their petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is the first international case demanding El Salvador answer for a secret deportation deal with the US.
Israeli strikes hit two Iranian nuclear facilities on Friday. The same day, the White House rescheduled a presidential trip to Beijing for May. The question isn't whether Washington wants out — it's whether anyone can build a door.
Commercial satellite imagery appears to show three destroyed American tanker aircraft at Prince Sultan Air Base. The Pentagon has said nothing.
Finland is demanding proof that European-funded weapons actually reach Ukraine — verification steps allies normally reserve for adversaries, not partners. Marco Rubio says the US may keep them 'for America first.'
Israel bombed Iran's Arak heavy water reactor and its only yellowcake plant on Friday — crossing from a U.S.-led campaign into direct Israeli attacks on nuclear infrastructure. Iran's IRGC says the old rules no longer apply.
Pakistan is ferrying messages between Washington and Tehran, pressing both sides toward talks neither will publicly acknowledge. The country has more riding on the outcome than most mediators ever do.
A US military probe has concluded that outdated intelligence caused a Tomahawk strike on an Iranian school, killing at least 168 people. The finding threatens to unravel claims of precision warfare.
The day before taking office, Nepal's new prime minister released a rap song. Now the 35-year-old former rapper must satisfy a generation that toppled a government.
Three container ships were turned back at the Strait of Hormuz on Friday morning — the first confirmed interdictions since Iran declared the waterway closed to 'enemy' shipping. With oil at $110 a barrel and Macquarie warning of $200 crude by June, the chokepoint the world feared has become reality.
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