5+ hour, 59+ min ago   (174+ words) The Iranian ally seizes Yemen’s Red Sea coast, cementing their hold on the Bab al-Mandeb strait. The advance of the Houthis along Yemen’s Red Sea coast has raised fears of a second front in the war between the United States…...

7+ hour, 7+ min ago   (183+ words) With the US midterm elections just weeks away, Donald Trump’s administration is trying to put a positive spin on a war with Iran that shows no sign of letting up. Climbing fuel and grocery prices, the president’s provocative social media…...

13+ hour, 5+ min ago   (120+ words) Trump: Iran probably ‘behind’ Saudi oil pipeline attack US President Donald Trump says he thinks Iran was ‘probably’ responsible for an attack on Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline on Friday, forcing it to shut down. Trump also says the Houthis…...

14+ hour, 16+ min ago   (1358+ words) Baghdad launches investigation, closes border after confirming strike came from Iraqi territory. Saudi Arabia has temporarily closed its critical East-West oil pipeline, a 1,200km (746-mile) conduit stretching across the Arabian Peninsula, after it was attacked by drones on Friday. The drones…...

15+ hour, 35+ min ago   (892+ words) The CIA have declassified documents showing US presidents were warned about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda before 9/11. Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, the CIA has released a series of presidential briefing documents showing what United States leaders had been…...

19+ hour, 45+ min ago   (1416+ words) The events of September 11, 2001 spawned a new lexicon which effectively sanitised the erosion of human rights. In the years after the September 11 attacks on New York City’s World Trade Center, a whole new vocabulary of war, laced with the language…...

21+ hour, 11+ min ago   (139+ words) Former US diplomat Zalmay Khalilzad says Washington wants to prevent Afghanistan becoming a hub for anti-US groups. A stable Afghanistan post 9/11 is in US interests says former US diplomat Former US diplomat Zalmay Khalilzad says Washington has a ‘principal interest…...

23+ hour, 32+ min ago   (378+ words) A briefer wrote to then-President Clinton that bin Laden’s ‘preferred option is to strike the US on its own soil in Washington’, and that al-Qaeda ‘may fly an explosive-packed airplane into a US city’. Several dozen presidential briefing documents declassified…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (833+ words) Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad describes misgivings about the US handling of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Twenty-five years after the attacks on September 11, 2001, a former top United States diplomat has outlined what he feels were missteps made in the aftermath. In…...