#washingtonpost.com. × China lowers growth forecast, boosts military, citing ‘grave’ environment. Beijing kicked off its top annual political gathering, pledging to further insulate its economy from Trump’s tariffs and accelerate efforts to supercharge its military.
#Mar.06.2026 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Iran’s regime maintains its grip, despite devastating losses. Top officials have been heavily targeted, but experts and officials say the ruling structure in Tehran has remained surprisingly resilient.
#Mar.05.2026 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Live updates: Israel extends assault on Tehran, Beirut; Iran threatens revenge after U.S. sinks warship. Neighboring countries including Azerbaijan and Saudi Arabia reported fresh attacks, and Qatar said it was evacuating residents near the U.S. Embassy in Doha.
#Mar.05.2026 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Attack on Iran shows Russia losing clout but perhaps reaping war dividends. Some in the Kremlin believe a prolonged U.S. war could work in Russia’s favor by boosting oil prices and diverting key weapons from Ukraine.
#Mar.05.2026 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Trump calls on Kurds to aid U.S. effort in Iran, offers support. In calls to Kurdish minority leaders in Iran and neighboring Iraq, President Donald Trump offered U.S. support to insurgent efforts against Tehran.
#Mar.05.2026 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Spanish prime minister slams Trump’s war in Iran, escalating feud. By criticizing the U.S.-led attack and refusing to bow to Trump’s threat of trade retaliation, Pedro Sánchez set himself apart from other European leaders.
#Mar.04.2026 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Iranians mourn elementary school students killed in missile strike. Iranian authorities said that at least 175 people, many of them children, were killed in the attack.
#Mar.04.2026 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × From Hamas attack to U.S. war with Iran, violence forges a new Middle East. An Iran-led order that long backed the likes of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis – is gone. What will follow is one of the top questions of modern geopolitics.
#Mar.04.2026 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Live updates: Israel threatens Iran’s future leader, attacks force linked to protest crackdown. Iran launched a fresh barrage of strikes in Persian Gulf states, as the U.S. worked to evacuate citizens stranded in the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
#Mar.04.2026 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × U.S. troops had little protection from drone strike that killed six, imagery shows. A facility in Kuwait, the site of the attack, is among 10 U.S. military outposts to have been hit by retaliatory strikes, along with French and British bases.
#Mar.04.2026 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Anthropic’s AI tool Claude central to U.S. campaign in Iran, amid a bitter feud. Anthropic’s AI tool Claude is playing a key role in the U.S. military’s campaign in Iran, amid a bitter fight with the Pentagon over the terms of its use in war.
#Mar.04.2026 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × CIA station in Saudi capital hit in drone attack. The attack on the CIA station in Riyadh comes as Iran widens retaliation across the Middle East in the wake of the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign.
#Mar.03.2026 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × State Dept. scrambles to aid stranded Americans amid attacks, airport closures. The Trump administration said it is looking to use a mix of military and chartered flights to help U.S. citizens leave the Middle East as Iran steps up retaliatory strikes.
#Mar.03.2026 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Live updates: U.S. closes two gulf embassies as Iran strikes widen. U.S. diplomatic outposts in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia were closed on Tuesday as Israel struck Iran and Lebanon and war spread into the fourth day.
#Mar.03.2026 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × White House offers shifting rationales for war with Iran. From regime change to nuclear weapons, preemption to ballistic missiles, Trump’s top aides are retroactively making a broad case for a war of the president’s choosing.
#Mar.03.2026 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × France to expand nuclear arsenal as Europe’s trust in U.S. falters. Macron says his nation will bring European neighbors into nuclear military drills and may let them host nuclear-capable fighters planes for the first time.
#Mar.02.2026 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Threat from Iran conflict spreads across Middle East in 72 hours. In less than three days, the conflict ricocheted beyond the original targets in Iran, Israel and Iraq to threaten some 300 million civilians across more than a dozen nations.
#Mar.02.2026 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × U.S. won’t rule out sending ground troops into Iran. The Pentagon is bracing for more casualties as it wages a massive campaign to eliminate Tehran’s arsenal but acknowledged that U.S. forces cannot intercept all incoming fire.
#Mar.02.2026 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × We texted 1,000 Americans about U.S. strikes in Iran. Here’s what they said.. Fifty-two percent of Americans oppose the strikes, and two-thirds say the Trump administration hasn’t clearly explained the goals of the military action.
#Mar.02.2026 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Videos appear to show the moments U.S. fighter jets were shot down over Kuwait. Three U.S. fighter jets involved in the offensive against Iran were shot down mistakenly by Kuwait’s air defenses, the U.S. military’s Central Command said.
#Mar.02.2026 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Oil prices soar amid worries of sustained war in Iran. The war in the Mideast has effectively halted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, threatening to push up gas prices and raise the cost of other goods.
#Mar.02.2026 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Trump pursues Iranian decapitation without a plan for what comes next. The U.S. has a fraught track record of toppling autocratic regimes and securing peaceful democracies — even when it has vision for the day after.
#Mar.02.2026 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Trump leaves room to claim victory — or avoid blame — in recorded Iran strike messages. Trump has taken an approach to selling U.S. citizens on military action in Iran that contrasts with his predecessors, seeking to avoid completely owning it.
#Mar.02.2026 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × U.S. troops killed amid Iranian counterattack, fueling air defense fears. U.S. forces say they have hit 1,000 targets over the past two days in a race to take out Iran’s ability to threaten American personnel and allies across the Middle East.
#Mar.01.2026 ×
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