Few in the west know about the war fought on their behalf in Syria and Iraq. But they may come to know the rage that 60,000 dead have inspired.
In the 1980s Iran learned its frigates were no match for the US Navy. But its many small, nimble attack craft can worry tankers and warships alike.
Republican presidents always want ‘small’ nukes for use, not deterrence. What’s worrying is that US military chiefs are thinking the same way.
Kim Jong-un has the bombs to put on it too – but lately it’s all smiles from Donald Trump. Is this a lesson for Iran?
Saudi Arabia and other US allies are blockading Qatar, saying it supports terrorism. So why was its emir guest of honour at the White House on Monday?
The Revolutionary Guards are “Iran’s military-industrial complex”, and Trump’s provocations only make them stronger.
North Korea is rebuilding its ability to launch missiles and the US has got a spy plane in place to watch them – and the Americans are quietly continuing their military exercises with the South too.
What would a Sanders presidency mean for those who have long suffered due to American interventionism in the Middle East?
Arming Yemen’s Houthi rebels and Libya, and making huge fuel transfers on the high seas – it embarrasses Trump, but westerners can’t really object.
Big-spending Christian Right ‘legal army’, whose influence has soared in America under Trump, is now linked to campaigns against assisted dying in the UK
As the US fosters a backlash at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, states from Lebanon to Namibia are taking more progressive positions
