The U.S. is racing to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as Iran threatens one of the world’s most critical shipping lanes, testing a Navy that has recently retired most of its dedicated minesweepers and is now relying on a smaller…

The Trump administration’s latest push to ease tensions between Israel and Lebanon faces another key test this week as diplomats prepare for the second round of direct talks between the two countries on Thursday. … Yoni Tobin, a senior policy…

For six weeks, the United States and Israel pummeled Iran’s military infrastructure, with US Central Command saying it had struck over 13,000 targets and Israel reporting some 4,000 of its own. Yet even in the final days before a two-week…

JINSA Iran Policy Project Advisor VADM (ret.) Robert Harward, former Deputy Commander of U.S. Central Command, joined Morning Edition on NPR to discuss the U.S. naval blockade on Iran and the future of U.S. policy on Iran. VADM (ret.) Harward…