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The Pentagon is deploying the full spectrum of military forces for "maximum optionality" in the Middle East, giving President Trump virtually unlimited options in deciding how far to push the U.S. campaign against Iran.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the military knows that China and Russia are backing Iran in the war as steps are underway to counter the support.

Iran's ongoing resistance to Israeli-U.S. bombardment is built on a solid foundation: Its relationship with a fortress state that defied one of the heaviest U.S. bombing campaigns ever, and which today boasts one of the world's biggest missile ...

A Delta Air Lines flight from Sao Paulo to Atlanta had to return after the plane's left engine spat flames. No one was injured.

Extensive flooding in many parts of Afghanistan has killed a further 14 people in the past 24 hours, authorities said Tuesday, bringing the total number of deaths over the past five days to 42 with more heavy rain forecast.

As the war in Iran rattles global oil markets, Brazil is partially shielded by a decades-old buffer against shocks that is both cheap and emits less pollution that causes climate change: Tens of millions of drivers here can choose between filling ...

Supporters of Iran's imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi say she may have suffered a heart attack.

A humpback whale that has become stranded repeatedly off Germany's Baltic Sea coast in recent days got stuck again on Tuesday, authorities said, less than a day after swimming free. But rescuers were hopeful that it could still find its way out into ...

President Donald Trump is threatening to deploy ground troops to seize critical oil infrastructure on Iran's Kharg Island, a military gambit that experts say would risk American lives and could still fail to end the war.

A 75-year-old woman running for mayor of South Africa's biggest city went snorkeling in a large, water-filled trench in a suburban road in a stunt to draw attention to what she describes as years of mismanagement by the city's authorities.