WASHINGTON– The US military has halted its airstrikes against Iran after nearly two weeks of intensified bombing, while diplomatic efforts have moved forward to try to prevent a return to all-out war. But it remains to be seen whether the United States and Iran are at a turning point in a mercurial conflict that will
CAIRO — Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said Saturday they fired missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia in response to Saudi airstrikes on the strategic Red Sea city of Hodeida, in an escalation over vital shipping lanes in the Middle East as the United States and Iran compete for control of the Strait of Hormuz. Brig.
WASHINGTON– The US military on Tuesday identified a soldier who died while disarming an Iranian drone in Iraq as a 30-year-old man from North Carolina. The Army said it was investigating the death of Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton of Fayetteville during a controlled detonation Sunday at an air base in Irbil, northern Iraq. Swinton will
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The US military launched airstrikes on Sunday against Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in retaliation for the killing of US troops in Jordan, further widening the crossfire between the nations as they fight over the Strait of Hormuz. The attacks, now part of a week-long campaign in which Iran has attacked
A week after the United States and Iran signed a preliminary agreement aimed at ending the war, an Iranian drone crashed into a cargo ship sailing through the Strait of Hormuz. There were no casualties or major damage, but the June 25 attack set off a chain of hostilities that would put the two countries
WASHINGTON– The US military’s official death count in the Iran war has risen to 14 service members, with the death of a Navy pilot in a helicopter crash in early July in the Arabian Sea. The number of soldiers injured in the conflict also rose to more than 400 as of Monday. Capt. Tim Hawkins,