A ship seizure in the Persian Gulf has pushed the already-fragile US-Iran ceasefire to its breaking point. Tehran is vowing revenge. The Islamabad talks are stalling. The April 21 deadline is three days away. And oil markets are pricing in exactly what traders feared most — this ceasefire was never as solid as the headlines…

Benjamin Netanyahu launched 100 airstrikes on Lebanon within hours of Trump’s Iran ceasefire. Now Trump wants those strikes to stop. It is the same movie as January 2025 — a US president forcing an Israeli PM’s hand against his own coalition’s wishes. The difference this time is that Netanyahu may not survive the deal. JERUSALEM…

Iran built the drones that rained on Kyiv. Ukraine built the countermeasures that stopped them. Now Iran is fighting its own drone war — and the two most drone-intensive conflicts in modern history are converging in ways that are reshaping global military doctrine, disrupting Russian supply chains, and rewriting the rules of 21st-century warfare. KYIV…

Standing before thousands of faithful in the heart of Cameroon’s war-torn Anglophone region, Pope Leo XIV delivered his most direct condemnation yet of world leaders who wage war while invoking God’s blessing — words that landed in Washington like a thunderclap. The setting was Saint Joseph’s Cathedral in Bamenda, a city that has lived under…

A 10-day Lebanon truce took effect Thursday — and was violated within hours. But Trump says the Iran deal is “looking very good” and a weekend meeting may be imminent. Beirut’s skyline lit up with fireworks at midnight Thursday as a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon officially took hold. The celebratory gunfire from Hezbollah’s…

PERSIAN GULF / WASHINGTON — This is what maximum pressure looks like from the water. As of April 14, the United States has deployed 15 warships — anchored by a carrier strike group, guided-missile destroyers, submarine escorts, and maritime patrol aircraft — in a naval blockade formation encircling Iranian ports across the Persian Gulf and…

Thousands of US troops on high alert, Kharg Island seizure plans on the table, Iran threatening to shut the entire Gulf — and a framework deal that Axios says is now within reach. The next five days decide everything. On Wednesday morning, Donald Trump told the world the Iran war was “very close to over.”…

Viktor Orbán’s stunning election defeat hands Trump and Putin a geopolitical loss — and hands the EU a historic opening. But Peter Magyar’s Hungary will be more complicated than Brussels is celebrating. It was, in retrospect, a remarkable alignment of interests. The President of the United States and the President of Russia rarely back the…

With the ceasefire expiring April 21, Trump told the New York Post talks could restart “over the next two days” — even as his blockade leaks, sticking points remain, and the Mossad warns the mission isn’t over. The signal came not from a formal White House statement or a CENTCOM briefing. It came from a…

As of April 14, 15 US warships — including a carrier strike group and multiple destroyers — have formed a naval blockade around all Iranian ports. The ceasefire expires in 7 days. The Strait of Hormuz, oil markets, and the fragile Islamabad talks now hang on what happens next. PERSIAN GULF — The guns never…