The strikes -- which started at 1900 GMT -- "are targeting Iranian military capabilities used to threaten vessels freely transiting through the Strait of Hormuz," US Central Command said in a post on X.

US and Israel claim extensive damage, Iran projects defiance, and satellite images show fast attempts at recovery.

With US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's "proud" cancellation of the military's Women, Peace and Security (WPS) program, the "war on woke" has found its latest frontier—war itself. Stemming from a United Nations Security Council resolution in 2000 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, a Russian Soyuz-2.1b rocket with a Fregat upper stage carrying two Ionosfera-M satellites and an additional payload of ...

CARL HIGBIE (HOST): So, Mike, we've been here before. MIKE BAKER (GUEST): Yeah. HIGBIE: Do you think they mean it, or are we negotiating with somebody who's even in charge? BAKER: Look. They've never negotiated in good faith. Right? So color me cynical on ...

China’s People’s Liberation Army staged a second day of large-scale military drills around Taiwan on Tuesday, unleashing a live-fire show of force as part of what it called “Justice Mission 2025″ to demonstrate its ability to deter any external ...

The US could deliver spare military capability to Ukraine to help the war-battered nation bolster its battlefield position against Russia and bring President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table, a senior American diplomat said. Matthew Whitaker, the US ...

President Donald Trump on the new Air Force One while in flight from RAF Mildenhall AFB in the U.K. to Joint Base Andrews on July 8, 2026. © Photo by Win McNamee/