(THE CONVERSATION) After 12 days of trading deadly airstrikes, Israel and Iran confirmed on June 24, 2025, that a ceasefire is in effect, one day after President Donald Trump proclaimed the countries ...

For these veterans, the U.S. bombing of Iranian uranium enrichment sites in June and the Trump administration’s ...

Trump accepted that Iran was not Iraq. Few argue that our experiment of imposing a democratic government on Islamic nations ...

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As the U.S. struck Iran, the prospect for retaliation was running high in neighboring Iraq, where American and Iranian ...

They include a handful of exiled Iranian Kurdish groups based in northern Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region.

America's involvement in the 12-day conflict between Israel and Iran has prompted comparisons with its 2003 invasion of Iraq. But Donald Trump's ceasefire could suggest he's changing tack.

Importantly, the president understands that a superpower doesn't act terrified when threatened. Others should be terrified of ...

It’s an uneasy truce, brokered under intense pressure from Washington. Masoud Pezeshkian, the Iranian president, claimed a ...

The US military carried out a massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime. The ...

The Trump administration, for its part, has emboldened Israel in its war in Gaza and threatened military strikes of its own ...

Now that the United States has bombed Iran’s nuclear sites, many Americans are recalling the long-term war we got sucked into by invading Iraq in 2003.