On the morning of February 28, 2026, 105 ships passed through the Strait of Hormuz a tight but unremarkable day for one of the most trafficked maritime chokepoints on Earth. By March 2, that number had crashed to 13. Within weeks, the strait of Hormuz traffic had all but vanished from tracking screens worldwide. What…

May 5, 2026 | National Security & Defense For months, the Trump administration declared victory over Iran’s nuclear ambitions. The White House called the strikes “obliterating.” The Pentagon said the program had been set back by up to two years. The CIA pointed to “credible intelligence” of severe and lasting damage. Now, a US intelligence…

May 4, 2026 | Defense & Global Trade With roughly 20,000 seafarers stranded in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz and oil prices sitting 50 percent above pre-conflict levels, the pressure on the Trump administration to act was becoming impossible to ignore. On Sunday, President Donald Trump delivered his answer a mission he branded…

In an unprecedented naval command decision, the United States Navy has assumed direct control of commercial maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz deploying destroyers, aircraft, and 15,000 service members to personally guide stranded ships out of one of the world’s most dangerous waterways. The operation, launched Monday under the banner of “Project Freedom,” marks…

When the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran on February 28, 2026 assassinating Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and striking military, nuclear, and government targets across the country the strategic goals were defined and the military objectives were clear. What nobody fully anticipated was everything that came next: a cascade of consequences…

Washington / Doha | May 2, 2026 What were once the most imposing symbols of American military projection in the Middle East sprawling, fortified, and seemingly untouchable have emerged from nearly two months of Iran’s retaliatory strikes as something far more unsettling: a liability. A sweeping investigation by CNN, corroborated by assessments from Stars and…

The question circulating in classified corridors of the U.S. intelligence community is not what a victory over Iran would look like on the battlefield. It is what Iran would do if President Trump simply announced one regardless of what the battlefield actually looked like. According to sources familiar with the matter, us spy agency officials…

The world’s most critical oil chokepoint may never return to normal and Wall Street’s biggest bank says Iran knows exactly what it’s doing. The Strait of Hormuz strait news has dominated global energy markets for months, and Wall Street’s most influential bank is now offering its starkest forecast yet: the waterway that carries roughly one-fifth…

Washington’s most closely watched annual media event often described as the capital’s answer to the Met Gala, drawing together journalists, celebrities, Cabinet officials, and the president himself in a night of formal wear and uneasy familiarity turned into a crime scene on April 25, 2026. A man armed with multiple weapons charged a security checkpoint…

The annual White House Correspondent’s Dinner one of Washington’s most high-profile gatherings of journalists, politicians, and celebrities was thrown into chaos on the night of April 25, 2026, when gunshots rang out near the entrance of the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C. President Donald Trump, attending the event for the first time as a sitting…