Trump reportedly issued a direct threat to Iranian officials as US-Iran talks opened in Switzerland, warning: “You close the Strait and you won’t have a country.” He reportedly added: “You won’t even make it back to your f**king country.” The warning came as Washington disputed Iran’s claim that it had closed the Strait of Hormuz, the key chokepoint for global energy flows.
Tehran has reclosed the Strait of Hormuz and tied it to the fighting in Lebanon, turning a fragile US ceasefire into a pressure machine. As US and Iranian delegations sit down in Switzerland, the real question is who is setting its terms.
JD Vance has warned Israel’s government to stop attacking Donald Trump’s preliminary deal with Iran, in a sharp public rebuke that exposes growing tension between Washington and Tel Aviv. The US vice-president said criticism from members of Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet had gone too far, particularly after
U.S. Central Command says it has completed additional self-defense strikes on Iran, targeting military surveillance, communications, and air-defense sites across the country. CENTCOM said Marine Corps, Air Force, and Navy assets used precision munitions against targets it claimed threatened U.S. forces and commercial shipping in regional
The fragile calm between Washington and Tehran shattered on Wednesday night. At 5.15pm ET, US forces launched a fresh wave of strikes against multiple targets in Iran amounting to the most serious escalation since the two countries agreed a ceasefire in April. By early Thursday, Iranian military command had
Ukraine's Long-Range Strikes Cripple Crimean Supply Lines The top story today is Ukraine's increasingly successful long-range strike campaign against Russian-occupied Crimea. In recent weeks, strikes have targeted road and railway bridges around the peninsula, key logistical nodes (fuel, ammunition, and other supplies), and
Russia is not out-fighting Ukraine in the skies so much as out-producing it. Moscow kept its missile factories; Ukraine's were dismantled after the Cold War. Now, as the ground war stalls, the contest is shifting to who can both build and stop ballistic missiles.
Keir Starmer is on the brink of resignation, clearing a path for Andy Burnham. But the man Labour MPs see as a better communicator than Starmer arrives carrying a record his own former colleagues describe as a people-pleaser who couldn't say no, and a quiet scramble to reassure the gilt markets.
Moscow captured barely a seventh of the ground this spring that it took a year ago. The war's centre of gravity has shifted from the trench line to the supply line and Ukraine's mid-range drone campaign is now squeezing the corridor that keeps Russia's southern front alive.
