More than an hour after missiles began targeting top Iranian officials across downtown Tehran, President Trump for the first time described his goal to the American public: for the most powerful armed factions in Iran to lay down their arms and for Iranians to rise up and risk death by seizing control of their government.

Iran’s supreme leader was killed in an Israeli airstrike. It’s not clear what will happen next. Here’s the latest.

Senator Bernie Sanders has criticized the US attack on Iran, saying the reasons given by President Donald Trump are similar to the false claims used to

The U.S. and Israel have set out maximalist demands: Iran must give up any ability to enrich uranium (even with the sorts of limits and inspections that were agreed upon in the 2015 nuclear deal ), dismantle its nuclear infrastructure, and accept curbs on its missile program and regional proxies.

America lost the war in Afghanistan. All the blood and treasure expended was – in the end – largely for naught. I understand why many who fought there might feel differently. It is terribly difficult to walk away from the massive sunk costs. The ...

As anger about the presence of ICE in Minneapolis divided the nation, Americans turned to the American Civil War for metaphors.