Evening Brief: Middle East Airstrikes, Khamenei Successor, Colombia Vote, Oslo and Peru Explosions
Regional tensions rise as Israel strikes Lebanon, Iran preps leadership; Colombia votes; Oslo and Peru see explosions; casualties reported.
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Regional tensions rise as Israel strikes Lebanon, Iran preps leadership; Colombia votes; Oslo and Peru see explosions; casualties reported.
Coalition strikes on Iran’s fuel depots signal a shift in the war from symbolic targets to the economic machinery that powers Tehran’s military, its economy, and ultimately the global energy markets that Americans feel at the gas pump.
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US honors six fallen soldiers as Israel hits Iran’s oil facilities. Meanwhile, China signals thaw with Washington ahead of leaders’ summit.
Americans in Iran face rising risks, Ukraine hit by missiles and drones, Middle East strikes push oil above $90 amid disrupted shipping.
A struggling Special Forces officer finds healing through an unlikely friendship with a decorated Green Beret veteran haunted by a wartime memory.
AI is reshaping warfare, compressing decision cycles and driving a new era of algorithm-driven strikes and cyber operations.
Italy is sending retired SIDAM-25 25mm air defense vehicles to Ukraine, boosting low-altitude drone defenses in the ongoing conflict.
China urges U.S. and Israel to stop strikes on Iran, promoting diplomacy while showing a tougher stance in the Indo-Pacific.
Washington is demanding surrender from a wounded Iran with no supreme leader, squeezing Cuba with prosecutors and economic chokeholds, and now a Brooklyn courtroom has laid bare an Iran-linked assassination plot against American politicians, a reminder that this strange new season of geopolitics is being fought with bombers, indictments, and hired killers all at once.
As U.S. and Israeli airstrikes pound Iranian military targets around Tehran, President Trump escalates the rhetoric with demands for Iran’s unconditional surrender while the sudden cancellation of a major 82nd Airborne exercise raises new questions about whether American ground forces could soon enter the widening Middle East war.
Washington may have killed Qassem Soleimani in 2020 and decapitated Iran’s leadership again in 2026, but the shadow warfare system he built, a sprawling network of militias, missiles, and covert operators across the Middle East, is still very much in the fight.