Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave a rundown Wednesday of the food — and the copious amounts of caffeine — that U.S. military personnel consumed during the Iran war. “Along the way, we consumed more than 6 million meals, and by my estimate, more than 950,000 gallons of coffee, 2…
Last week, after the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, parroted his boss’s threat to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Age,” Tehran’s diplomats responded on social media. “At a time when you were still in caves searching for fire, we were inscribing human rights on the Cyrus Cylinder,” Iran’s Embassy in South Africa posted on…
Iranian officials urged youths to form human chains around power plants to protect them on Tuesday, as the latest deadline set by President Trump for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz drew closer. Mr. Trump has threatened to bomb all of Iran’s power plants and bridges if the regime does not meet his 8…
WASHINGTON — President Trump warned that a “whole civilization will die” on Tuesday night if Iran does not meet his deadline to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz, escalating tensions as diplomatic talks to end the war remain underway. “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” Trump wrote Tuesday morning on Truth…
KFAR CHOUBA, Lebanon — The fear is always there, but it’s worst at night. That’s when the Israeli troops stationed a few hundred yards down the road come into this mountain village less than a mile from Lebanon’s border with Israel, searching houses and detaining residents at will. “When it gets dark, the horror starts,” said Walid…
WASHINGTON — An audacious operation Saturday night deep inside Iran rescued an American officer whose fighter jet had gone down behind enemy lines, a dramatic mission involving hundreds of U.S. soldiers that underscored the ongoing dangers of President Trump’s war. Early on Easter Sunday morning, the president celebrated the mission as one of the most daring of…
The CMA CGM Kribi, sailing under a Malta flag and operated by French shipping company CMA CGM, became possibly the first vessel with links to France to pass through the Strait of Hormuz since Iran effectively closed the vital shipping lane, according to the MarineTraffic website. The ship departed waters off Dubai Thursday and arrived…
WASHINGTON — An American pilot flying over Iran was rescued Friday after his fighter jet was shot down by enemy fire, an attack that defied U.S. proclamations of total control over Iranian skies and prompted a hurried search and rescue operation for the pilot’s crew member. Word of the downed F-15E, a storied U.S. fighter jet rarely…
At a small Persian church in Chicago’s western suburbs, the pastor bowed his head and offered a special prayer for regime change and freedom of worship in his native Iran, as the five-week U.S.-Israeli war there rages on. “We pray to God to tear down the darkness power from Iran and bring his kingdom and…
On Tuesday, the Pope publicly mentioned Trump by name for the first time. As Leo left Castel Gandolfo, the papal palace, CNN’s Vatican correspondent, Christopher Lamb, asked him if he had any message for the leaders of the United States and Israel. Leo replied, in English, “I’m told that President Trump recently stated that he…