Tag: tensions
WASHINGTON Faced with the possibility of a full-scale war with Iran, President Donald Trump chose Wednesday to de-escalate, wrapping a conciliatory message in bellicose rhetoric as he denounced the countrys leaders but ordered no…
Army Sgt. Dave Sterling was serving in the Sunni Triangle in Iraq in 2003 the day Saddam Hussein was captured by American forces. Some Iraqis were dancing in the streets, celebrating the impending demise of…
An Iran-backed Iraqi militia broke up its encampment outside the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, a move that could ease tensions between Tehran and Washington that escalated after fighters attacked the compound. The Popular Mobilization Units…
BAGHDAD (AP) Dozens of Iraqi Shiite militiamen and their supporters broke into the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad today, smashing a main door and setting fire to a reception area, angered over deadly U.S.…
WASHINGTON (AP) The Trump administration froze all Venezuelan government assets in a dramatic escalation of tensions with Nicolás Maduro that places his socialist administration alongside a short list of adversaries from Cuba, North Korea,…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) Tracking data shows an oil tanker based in the United Arab Emirates traveling through the Strait of Hormuz drifted off into Iranian waters and stopped transmitting its location over…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held talks today with the Saudi king and crown prince after days of mounting tensions following the downing of a U.S drone last…
Sooner or later, Iran was going to be forced to change its tactics, but perhaps not in the way the United States intended. Ever since he withdrew the United States from an international nuclear agreement…
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Irans Revolutionary Guard shot down a U.S. drone today amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington over the collapsing nuclear deal with world powers, American and Iranian officials said, though they…
WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. is sending 1,000 more troops to the Middle East as tensions in the Persian Gulf mounted today over Irans announcement it will not comply with the international agreement that keeps…
