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The scene of a truck bombing on Oct. 22, 1983, at a U.S. Marine base near Beirut Airport that resulted in a huge death toll. Forty years after one of the deadliest attacks against U.S. troops in the Middle East, some warn that Washington could be sliding toward a new conflict in the region. (AP Photo/File)

40 years after Beirut’s deadly Marines bombing, U.S. troops again deploy east of the Mediterranean

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower sits pier side at Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Va., Wednesday, April 27, 2016. The Biden administration sent the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier strike group Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, to the Eastern Mediterranean to support Israel. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

U.S. sends carrier strike group, missile defense system to Middle East

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A woman holds a placard with a picture of Iranian woman Mahsa Amini during a protest against her death, in Berlin, Germany, on Sept. 28, 2022. A court in Iran sentenced two female journalists to up to seven years in prison for “collaborating” with the United States government among other charges, local reports said Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023. Both have been imprisoned for over a year following their coverage of the death of Mahsa Amini while in police custody in September 2022. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Iran sentences 2 journalists for collaborating with US. Both covered Mahsa Amini’s death

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Palestinians celebrate by a burning Israeli tank at the border fence of the Gaza Strip on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. The militant Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel at daybreak Saturday, firing thousands of rockets as dozens of Hamas fighters infiltrated the heavily fortified border in several locations by air, land, and sea and catching the country off-guard on a major holiday. (AP Photo)

In killing Israelis, Hamas may have also targeted Saudi diplomatic deal

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Pumpjacks dip their heads to extract oil in a basin south of Duchesne, Utah on July 13, 2023. U.S. oil production is at an all-time high. The U.S. Energy Information Administration, an arm of the Energy Department, reported that American oil production in the first week of October hit 13.2 million barrels per day, passing the previous record set in 2020 by 100,000 barrels. Weekly domestic oil production has doubled from the first week in October 2012 to now. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Long lines at gas pump unlikely, but Middle East crisis could disrupt oil supplies, raise prices

By Matthew Daly, David Mchugh and Stan Choe - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks from the Oval Office of the White House Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023, in Washington, about the war in Israel and Ukraine. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool via AP)

Fox News’ Brit Hume says Biden did ‘remarkably well’ on prime-time address

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Nail in the coffin? Hamas attack could finally doom Biden’s diplomatic dance with Iran

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Illustration on unfrozen assets and restitution to Iran's victims by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Biden must block funds for Palestinian aggression

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Jacob Lew, former treasury secretary under President Barack Obama, testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing to examine his nomination as Ambassador to the State of Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Biden nominee for Israel ambassador refutes ‘holding hands with Iran’ as Dems race for confirmation

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Parts of the wreckage of a drone are laid out on the ground near the Ain al-Asad airbase, in the western Anbar province of Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. Two explosives-laden drones targeting the base housing U.S. troops were engaged and destroyed by defensive capabilities at the base on Tuesday, a coalition official said. (International Coalition via AP)

U.S. troops injured in Iraq after three drones attack

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Yves Flueckiger, left, Rector of the university of Geneva, next to Roland Marchal, right, researcher at CERI, in front of the picture of French-Iranian anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah, placed under house arrest in Iran, as he delivers his speech, during the ceremony Dies Academicus of the University of Geneva, in Geneva, on Oct. 9, 2020. Paris' political sciences institute Sciences Po announced on Wednesday Oct. 18, 2023 that French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, who has previously been detained in Iran, has returned to France. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

French-Iranian academic imprisoned for years in Iran returns to France

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This image released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry on Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023, shows a drone called the Mohair-10 in an undisclosed location, Iran. Iran's Defense Ministry unveiled a drone Tuesday resembling America's armed MQ-9 Reaper, claiming that the aircraft capable of staying airborne for 24 hours and having the range to reach its archenemy Israel. (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)

U.S. imposes more Iran drone sanctions as U.N. rules set to expire

By Fatima Hussein - Associated Press

Biden's Shady Iran Deal Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

U.S. must inflict serious pain — not comfort — on terrorist state Iran

By L. Scott Lingamfelter

Illustration on Biden's U.S. energy dependence by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Biden’s march to energy subservience threatens our economy, national security

By Peter Navarro

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew speaks during the discussion panel at the World Bank/IMF annual meeting at IMF headquarters in Washington, Oct. 7, 2016. The White House says President Joe Biden has nominated Lew to serve as his next ambassador to Israel.( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) **FILE**

Biden nominee for ambassador to Israel criticized for being an ‘Iran sympathizer’

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Iranian Basij paramilitary force members, in the style of the Palestinian and Lebanese militants, play the detention of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a pro-Palestinian rally after the Friday prayer in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo)

Biden fails to satisfy critics of $6 billion Iran deal, pressure mounts to permanently freeze funds

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Smoke rises from an Israeli army position which was attacked by Hezbollah fighters near Alma al-Shaab a Lebanese border village with Israel, south Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. Hamas Palestinian militants in southern Lebanon fired 20 rockets into the northern Israeli towns of Schlomi and Nahariyya, the group said in a statement. They said it was "in response to the (Israeli) occupation's crimes against our people in Gaza". (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah missile strikes in northern Israel spark fears of major escalation

By Guy Taylor and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks at the 2023 Human Rights Campaign National Dinner, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

World crises sound alarm, but Biden’s foreign policy delivers shaky response

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

The Face of Hamas and Iran Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Iran’s terrorist war: Hamas and Hezbollah are wholly controlled proxies of the Tehran regime

By Jed Babbin

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre listens as National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during a briefing at the White House, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Iran has not accessed $6 billion from prisoner swap, White House says

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times