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Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif addresses the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, at United Nations headquarters, Wednesday, July 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Iran鈥檚 seizure of UK tanker in Gulf seen as escalation

July 19, 2019 at 3:38 p.m.

Britain's foreign secretary said Iranian authorities seized two vessels Friday in the Strait of Hormuz, actions signaling intensifying tensions in the strategic waterway that has become a flashpoint between Tehran...

President Donald Trump waves as he departs after speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, June 14, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump blames Iran for tanker attacks but calls for talks

June 14, 2019 at 11:26 p.m.

President Donald Trump has blamed Iran for attacks on oil tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, but he also held out hope that implicit U.S. threats to use force...

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan speaks ...

Plan may send up to 10,000 troops to Mideast, U.S. officials say

May 22, 2019 at 5:47 p.m.

The Pentagon on Thursday will present plans to the White House to send up to 10,000 more troops to the Middle East, in a move to beef up defenses against...

President Donald Trump listens as acting ...

NATO chief tells Congress of “serious” alliance divisions

April 3, 2019 at 1:34 p.m.

In the first address to Congress by a NATO head, Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday acknowledged serious divisions within the alliance and called for bigger defense budgets to cope with global...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives ...

Trump suspends arms treaty, citing Chinese, Russian threats

February 1, 2019 at 9:07 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration is pulling the plug on a decades-old nuclear arms treaty with Russia, lifting what it sees as unreasonable constraints on competing with a resurgent Russia...

U.S. expected to announce treaty withdrawal as soon as Friday

January 31, 2019 at 10:42 p.m.

The Trump administration is poised to announce Friday that it is withdrawing from a treaty that has been a centerpiece of superpower arms control since the Cold War and whose...

From left, FBI Director Christopher Wray, ...

U.S. intel heads list North Korea, not border, as threat to country

January 29, 2019 at 10:17 p.m.

Directly contradicting President Donald Trump, U.S. intelligence agencies told Congress on Tuesday that North Korea is unlikely to dismantle its nuclear arsenal, that the Islamic State group remains a threat...

Jim Mattis’ resignation letter lays out challenges for whoever succeeds him as defense secretary

December 21, 2018 at 4:07 p.m.

The extraordinary resignation letter that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis handed to a surprised President Donald Trump was not just a product of two years of accumulating frustration with an impulsive...

In this Dec. 11, 2018 photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Democratic leaders the Oval Office in Washington.

Trump pulling out of Syria. Might Afghanistan be next?

December 20, 2018 at 6:27 a.m.

Against the advice of many in his own administration, President Donald Trump is pulling U.S. troops out of Syria. Could a withdrawal from Afghanistan be far behind?

President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018, to travel to Pittsburgh following last weekends shooting at Tree of Life Synagogue. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump: Number of troops sent to border could reach 15,000

October 31, 2018 at 3:41 p.m.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the number of military troops deployed to the U.S.-Mexican border could go as high as 15,000 as he draws a hard line on immigration...

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