MIDDLE EAST

Covers military activity, regime stability, and strategic competition across the Middle East. Tracks Iranian influence operations, Israeli security doctrine, Gulf realignment, and proxy warfare in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen. Includes energy chokepoints, arms transfers, non-state actors, and shifting alliances driven by external powers and regional rivalries.

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MIDDLE EAST

U.S. Military Delivers Retaliatory Strike Against Iran

The U.S. military struck Iran on Friday in response to a drone attack on a commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz the day before, the most serious test yet of the interim understanding the two countries reached a week earlier to wind down their war and reopen the

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E.U. Officials Hold First Time Meeting With Taliban Over Deportations

Five Taliban officials landed in Brussels on Tuesday, spent a few hours across the table from European Union diplomats, and flew back out the same day on a route through Turkey. It was the first time the group had been received on EU soil since it took Kabul in 2021,

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V.P. Vance & Iranian Counterparts Agree To 60 Day Roadmap For Final Deal

The United States and Iran emerged from their first round of talks in Switzerland with a roadmap toward a final agreement within 60 days, along with new mechanisms meant to keep the Strait of Hormuz open and end the fighting in Lebanon, the mediators announced Monday after roughly 18 hours

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President Announces Peace Deal With Iran

The United States and Iran reached an initial agreement on Sunday to end their war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a breakthrough that, if it holds, would close out more than three months of fighting that killed thousands and convulsed the global economy. Pakistan, which mediated the talks, announced

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Iran Peace Deal Comes Together

The United States and Iran signaled on Friday that they had reached the text of an agreement to end their months-long war, though the two sides differed over how close it was to being signed and what exactly it contained. Pakistan, which has mediated the talks, declared the matter

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U.S. Strikes Iran After Downing Of U.S. Helicopter

The U.S. military struck Iran on Tuesday evening, hitting air defenses and radar sites near the Strait of Hormuz a day after Iranian forces brought down an Army Apache helicopter over the same waters. Central Command said the operation began at 5 p.m. Eastern at President Donald Trump&

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Iran Fires Retaliatory Strikes Against Israel For Lebanon Incursion

Iran launched missiles at Israel on Sunday, the first direct bombardment since a fragile ceasefire took hold in early April and a sharp turn toward the heavy fighting that mediators have spent weeks trying to prevent. Iran's state broadcaster confirmed the launches, and Tehran closed its western airspace

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U.S. Admin Explores Using Frozen Iranian Assets To Help Rebuild Gulf States

The Treasury Department is examining whether to tap frozen Iranian assets to help Gulf states repair the damage they absorbed during the war with Iran, a move that could complicate already strained talks between Washington and Tehran. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has directed his staff to study the idea and

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Iran Attacks U.S. Bases In Kuwait

Iranian forces launched at least five ballistic missiles toward American military bases in Kuwait and Bahrain on Tuesday evening, drawing immediate retaliatory strikes from the United States on a missile facility on Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz and pushing what remains of a fragile ceasefire between Washington and

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Israeli PM Warns Of Further Breaches Into Lebanon To Fight Hezbollah

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said the country would deepen and expand its operations inside southern Lebanon, calling the Israeli military's capture of the strategic Beaufort Castle "a dramatic shift" in Israeli policy toward Hezbollah and signaling that the current ground offensive will push

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Bessent Claims $1 Billion In Crypto Seized From Iran

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday that the United States has now seized approximately $1 billion in cryptocurrency tied to the Iranian government, roughly doubling the figure he had given a month earlier. Speaking at the 2026 Reagan National Economic Forum in Simi Valley, California, Bessent made the

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‘Final Determination’ Being Made For Iran Deal

President Donald Trump met with senior national security officials in the White House Situation Room on Friday to make what he had described in advance as a "final determination" on the framework deal with Iran. After roughly two hours of deliberations, the meeting ended without a decision, a

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