Virginia’s Lt. Gov-elect Ghazala Hashmi (D) holds a PhD in poetry and selected five poems for fellow Democrats that brought her comfort over the past year.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's supreme leader warned Sunday that any attack by the United States would spark a “regional war” in the Mideast, further escalating tensions as President Donald ...

Iran’s supreme leader on Sunday compared the nationwide protests that challenged the country’s theocracy to “a coup.” ...

The Iranian military intends to conduct two days of live-fire naval drills in the Strait of Hormuz despite warnings from the U.S. military.

US Navy aircraft carriers serve as vital tools of American power projection in the Middle East—and can pack a tremendous ...

Iran simply cannot maintain total control of its airspace during a US incursion—but its legacy air defense systems are still ...

The blast at Bandar Abbas port comes amid looming threat of a US military strike on Iran after Trump warned Tehran of a ...

Historian Allen Guelzo will speak at Lincoln’s 217th birthday banquet Feb. 12 in Springfield. A free symposium follows on Feb ...

President Trump’s “massive armada” of warships and fighter planes near Iran mirrors the military buildup of assets in the Caribbean as the president weighs greenlighting strikes against the ...

USAF F-35As deployed to Puerto Rico for the attack on Venezuela might now be part of what Trump called a ‘massive armada’ moving towards Iran. In recent ...

As President Donald Trump considers a major strike on Iran after discussions about limiting that nation’s nuclear program and ballistic missile production haven’t progressed, the US military has ...