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U.S. President Trump said over the weekend he doesn't want the well-armed militias of the Kurds -- the northern Iran and Iraq ethnic group that has often aligned itself with the U.S. in the past -- to join the fight against the regime in Tehran. But ...

At least a half-dozen Senate Democrats are threatening to force repetitive votes on war powers resolutions and use other tools of the minority party to gum up the works in the chamber until Republicans schedule public hearings on the Iran war.

President Trump on Monday said other countries might have been responsible for firing a Tomahawk missile that hit an Iranian school on the first day of U.S.-Israeli strikes on the Islamic republic.

President Trump said Iran was building a new site to develop nuclear weapons and "never negotiated in good faith," which led to the strikes.

Some of the fastest cars in the world are coming to the District's streets for an IndyCar race on Aug. 23.

On a day when Turkey shot down another incoming Iranian missile and Israel broadened its airstrikes to target Tehran's oil production facilities, U.S. President Trump assured American lawmakers the war is on track to end soon.

Before the U.S and Israel opened a war on Iran, the Islamic republic had waged a nearly 50-year campaign of global terrorism that has killed thousands, including at least 995 U.S. servicemen, military personnel and other Americans.

Sunday's selection of Mojtaba Khamenei as Iran's new supreme leader runs counter to a foundational pillar of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which ousted the then-ruling shah and installed theocratic rule in Tehran.

President Trump told Republican House members Monday that the war in the Middle East will be only a "short-term excursion."

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Monday that he hopes President Trump will change his mind about not signing bills into law until the SAVE America Act is passed, because he does not see a way to ensure its passage.