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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to the media before departing from al-Bateen Air Base in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019, as U.S. special representative on Iran Brian Hook, left, listens. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)

Biden administration renews taxpayer-funded protection for Mike Pompeo, top aide over Iran threats

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Palestinian demonstrators wave Hamas flags and shout slogans during a protest following the killing of top Hamas official Saleh Arouri in Beirut, in the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024. Arouri, the No. 2 figure in Hamas, was killed in an explosion blamed on Israel. He is the highest-ranked Hamas figure to be killed in the nearly three-month war between Israel and Hamas. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israel suspected as drone strike kills senior Hamas officials in Beirut

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

A nuclear-armed Iranian Islamic empire throughout the Middle East and beyond

All the ayatollah’s men: Iran’s proxies are fighting on many fronts

By Clifford D. May

Iranian-backed Houthi sect of Yemen attacking ships illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

The Houthi conundrum: Iran must pay a price for its conduct

By Jed Babbin

Three internally displaced children look with surprise at an apple that their mother brought home after begging, in a camp on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Feb 2, 2023. Since the chaotic Taliban takeover of Kabul on Aug. 15, 2021, an already war-devastated economy once kept alive by international donations alone is now on the verge of collapse. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Displaced, repatriated and crossing borders: Afghan people make grueling journeys to survive

By Ebrahim Noroozi - Associated Press

An Iranian mourner holds up a poster of Seyed Razi Mousavi, a high ranking Iranian general of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, who was killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria on Monday, during his funeral ceremony in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran holds funeral for a general who was killed by an alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria

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Members of an Iraqi Shiite militant group carry the coffin of an fighter with the Kataib Hezbollah militia, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Babil Province, during his funeral in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Biden urged to step up attacks; U.S. looks to ‘degrade capabilities’ after militias injure 3 troops

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022. (Alexandr Demyanchuk, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Iran summons Russian envoy over statement on Persian Gulf disputed islands

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Iran biggest obstacle for Middle East peace illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Iran is biggest obstacle to any significant Middle East peace deal

By Jed Babbin

A woman fills her car at a gas station in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 18, 2023. Nearly 70% of Iran's gas stations went out of service on Monday following possible sabotage — a reference to cyberattacks, Iranian state TV reported. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

A suspected cyberattack paralyzes the majority of gas stations across Iran

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Iran's national flag waves in Tehran, Iran, March 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Gunmen kill 11 people, wound 8 others in an attack on a police station in Iran, state TV says

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Iran's President Hassan Rouhani talk to each other as they attend a signing ceremony during the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Nov. 23, 2015. Putin declared earlier this month that Moscow could play the role of mediator to help end the Israel-Hamas war, thanks to its friendly ties with both Israel and the Palestinians, adding that "no one could suspect us of playing up to one party." (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Good guys and bad guys: Hearing directly from the bad guys

By Tim Constantine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, walks with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., left, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., right, during a visit to Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Zelenskyy vows transparency for U.S. aid

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Iran's President Hassan Rouhani talk to each other as they attend a signing ceremony during the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Nov. 23, 2015. Putin declared earlier this month that Moscow could play the role of mediator to help end the Israel-Hamas war, thanks to its friendly ties with both Israel and the Palestinians, adding that "no one could suspect us of playing up to one party." (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Double trouble: Iran and Russia accelerating toward ‘major’ new partnership

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Iraqis attend the funeral of the Kataib Hezbollah members in Najaf, Iraq, Wednesday, Nov 22, 2023. Kataib Hezbollah fighters were killed in the U.S. airstrikes in response to attacks against American forces at Al-Asad Air Base earlier this week. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil) ** FILE **

Iraq scrambles to contain fighting between U.S troops, Iran-backed groups, fearing Gaza spillover

By Kareem Chehayeb and Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

In this photo released by Uzbekistan's President Press Office, Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi attends the Summit of the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. (Uzbekistan's President Press Office via AP) ** FILE **

Iran-Russia alliance tightens with Moscow summit

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

This photo released by the Iranian Defense Ministry on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, claims to show a rocket with a capsule carrying animals before being launched from an undisclosed location into orbit, Iran. Iran said Wednesday it sent a capsule into orbit carrying animals as it prepares for human missions in coming years. The sign at left reads in Farsi " Salman biological explorer." (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)

Iran says it sent a capsule with animals into orbit as it prepares for human missions

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War between Israel and Hamas illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

The pro-Israel speech Biden should make now

By Clifford D. May

The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and other warships crossed the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf on Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023, as part of a wider American deployment in the Middle East amid the Israel-Hamas war. The Eisenhower was accompanied by the guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea, the guided-missile destroyers USS Gravely and the USS Stethem and the French frigate Languedoc. (Information Technician Second Class Ruskin Naval/U.S. Navy via AP)

Houthis goad U.S. Navy in Middle East, step up campaign against Israel, shipping

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Facebook unveiled their new Meta sign outside the company headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar) ** FILE **

Facebook takes down thousands of Chinese accounts targeting U.S. elections and politics

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times