Four Years Ago, Trump Had No Clue Who Iran's Suleimani Was.  Now He May Have Kicked Off WWIII.  —  President Donald Trump makes a video call to the troops stationed worldwide at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., on Dec. 24, 2019.  —  Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images

Security Alert - U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq, January 3, 2020  —  Home الصفح ة الرئي سية |  Security Alert - U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq, January 3, 2020  —  Event: Due to heightened tensions in Iraq and the region …

Donald Trump's assassination of Qassem Suleimani will come back to haunt him  —  The Quds force leader had the status of national hero even among secular Iranians.  His death could act as a rallying cry  —  The US has assassinated Qassem Suleimani, the famed leader of Iran's Quds force …

Trump's Strike Has Drawn A Sharp Line Between The Democrats Running For President  —  The Democratic presidential candidates have split into an anti-war camp, led by Bernie Sanders, and a set of more nuanced responses to the killing of a key Iranian official, a rare and sharp contrast inside …

U.S. Strike in Iraq Kills Qassim Suleimani, Commander of Iranian Forces  —  Suleimani was planning attacks on Americans across the region, leading to an airstrike in Baghdad, the Pentagon statement said.  Iran's supreme leader called for vengeance.  —  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. …

Trump Thinks Attacking Iran Will Get Him Reelected.  He's Wrong.  —  Beginning in 2011, and continuing through the next year, Donald Trump began obsessively predicting that President Obama would start a war with Iran in order to be reelected.  Trump stated it publicly, on at least a half-dozen occasions …

The Killing of Qassem Suleimani Is Tantamount to an Act of War  —  On orders from President Trump, the United States killed Major General Qassem Suleimani, the leader of Iran's élite Quds Force and the mastermind of its military operations across the Middle East, in an overnight air strike at Baghdad's International Airport.

Trump's Ground Game Against Iran  —  The assassination of Qassim Suleimani is a seismic event in the Middle East.  —  Mr. Doran is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and served in the departments of State and Defense, and on the National Security Council.

The U.S. takes a war footing against Iran after Soleimani strike  —  President Trump, after warning three days ago that Iran would pay “a very BIG PRICE,” authorized a drone strike at Baghdad International Airport that killed Iran's top general and second most powerful official, Qasem Soleimani.

Statement by the Department of Defense  —  At the direction of the President, the U.S. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.

Strait of Hormuz, the world's biggest oil chokepoint, in focus as U.S.-Iran tensions flare  —  The Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway in the Middle East that marks the most sensitive transportation choke point for global oil supplies, was back in focus Friday after a U.S. airstrike killed …

Congressman Roe: “Thank you for giving me the opportunity to represent East Tennessee.”  —  f t # e  —  JOHNSON CITY, TENN.- Today, Rep. Phil Roe, M.D. (R-Tenn.) released the following statement after announcing he will retire at the end of the 116th Congress: