(The Center Square) – As the conflict with Iran enters day 12, 50,000 service members remain deployed around the Middle East, while the U.S. has struck over 5,500 targets inside the Islamic Republic.
Francesco Fontemaggi and Anna Smolchenko with Hiroshi Hiyama in Tokyo and Louis van Boxel-Woolf in Frankfurt AFP
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The International Energy Agency said on Wednesday its member countries would unlock 400 million barrels of oil from their reserves to ease the impact of the Middle East war, the biggest such release ever.
(The Center Square) – An estimated 140 service members have been injured since the start of Operation Epic Fury in the nearly 11 days since the joint strikes between the U.S. and Iran began, according to a Pentagon spokesperson.
US President Donald Trump has built a potential off-ramp by suggesting the Iran war could end soon, but the world is still guessing about whether he will take it -- and whether Tehran will let him.
President Donald Trump announced he was sending US forces into war with Iran on February 28, kicking off a multidimensional regional conflict -- and a series of contradictory declarations on the American mission's scope and timeline.
(The Center Square) – The Trump administration is making good on its promise that Operation Epic Fury was “just the beginning” of U.S. combat operations in the Middle East, sending $650 million worth of munitions to Israel over the weekend.
