U.S. forces already have a large presence in the Middle East. Now, more ships and aircraft are on their way as tensions with Iran rise.

The aging USS Nimitz sails into conflict once more, marking a symbolic end to its storied career as US military movements ...

More than 4,000 Iowa National Guard soldiers are in Fort Polk, Louisiana, at the Joint Readiness Training Center, undergoing one of the Army's most demanding combat training events in preparation for ...

President Trump has excelled at letting supporters hear what they want to hear. But Iran has upended that strategy.

ANALYSIS: As Europe tries to hammer out a deal in the Middle East, Donald Trump has given himself time to work out what to do - but peace may not be in everyone’s interest, writes world affairs editor ...

The region’s powers worry that an Israeli victory would rupture stability. A diplomatic solution to Iran’s nuclear program ...

Ousting or killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei could lead to a more radical, anti-Israeli Iran.

With more than 40,000 troops deployed across Iraq, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, the US faces risks of retaliation ...

The open conflict sparked by Israel’s sudden barrage of attacks against Iran’s nuclear and military structure shows no signs ...

Israel’s current campaign is built around two realities often missed by so-called realists: first, that the Iranian ...

The problem, for both Iran and the Palestinian cause, is that the rest of the Middle East had already come to the same ...

Militia groups allied with Tehran have mostly stayed out of its war with Israel.