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In this picture released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with army's air force and air defense staff in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021. Iran's supreme leader said the U.S. must lift all sanctions if it wants Iran to return to its commitments to the nuclear deal with Western powers. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran remains greatest cause of instability in Middle East, head of Central Command says

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021 handout photo, released by the U.S. Air Force, a B-52 bomber from the 2nd Bomb Wing of Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, right, flies with Royal Saudi Air Force F-15s during a mission in the Middle East. The U.S. military said Wednesday it again flew a B-52 bomber over the Middle East &quot;to deter potential aggression&quot; amid tensions with Iran. (U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Roslyn Ward, via AP)

U.S. B-52 bomber completes mission over Persian Gulf in warning to Iran

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 20, 2020, file photo, a member of the U.S. Air Force stands near a Patriot missile battery at the Prince Sultan Air Base in al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia. The U.S. military is exploring the possibility using a Red Sea port in Saudi Arabia and an additional two airfields there amid heightened tensions with Iran, the military said Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool via AP, File)

U.S. eyes Saudi bases in ‘contingency’ planning for clash with Iran

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a coronavirus vaccination facility in the northern Arab city of Nazareth, Israel, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. (Gil Eliyahu/Pool via AP)

U.S. military operations with Israel shift to Central Command

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 7, 2020, file photo released by the U.S. Navy, the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz transits the Arabian Sea. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Elliot Schaudt/U.S. Navy via AP) ** FILE **

USS Nimitz heading home

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 16, 2015, photo, U.S. Central Command Commander Gen. Lloyd Austin III, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Obama administration is preparing a major overhaul of its failed effort to train thousands of moderate Syrian rebels to fight the Islamic State group, shifting from preparing rebels for frontline combat to a plan to embed them with established Kurdish and Arab forces in northeastern Syria, U.S. officials said. The discussion of a new approach comes a day after Austin, told Congress that the $500 million effort to train 5,000 moderate Syrian rebels in a year had yielded "four or five" new fighters after another 50 or so were captured, wounded or fled in their first encounter with extremist militants. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Lloyd Austin picked by Joe Biden as defense secretary nominee

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center and flydubai CEO Ghaith Al Ghaith, right, attend a welcoming ceremony for the first flydubai commercial flight to arrive at Ben-Gurion International Airport, Israel, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. (Emil Salman/Pool via AP)

Israel operations should fall under U.S. Central Command, think tank says

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 28, 2019, photo, U.S. forces patrol Syrian oil fields, in eastern Syria. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad) **FILE**

U.S. beefs up defenses in Syria after encounter with Russians

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 23, 2017, photo, U.S. Army soldiers stand outside their armored vehicle on a joint base with the Iraqi army, south of Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed) **FILE**

U.S. cutting troops in Iraq from 5,200 to 3,000, Pentagon confirms

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth McKenzie Jr., commander of U.S. Central Command, left, walks to a House Armed Services hearing, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, March 10, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

U.S. general warns of long-term ISIS resurgence

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A soldier stands at the devastated site of the explosion in the port of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020. French President Emmanuel Macron came in Beirut to offer French support to Lebanon after the deadly port blast. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, Pool)

U.S. aid en route to Lebanon following an explosion that killed more than 100

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2020, file photo, U.S. soldiers and journalists inspect the rubble at a site of Iranian bombing, in Ain al-Asad air base, Anbar, Iraq. Six Army soldiers who were injured in a ballistic missile attack in Iraq in January have been awarded Purple Hearts, and 23 others have been approved for the award and will get them later this week, U.S. Central Command said Monday, May 4. (AP Photo/Qassim Abdul-Zahra, File)

Purple Hearts presented to U.S. troops injured in Iran missile attack on al-Asad air base

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

US awards 29 Purple Hearts for brain injuries in Iran attack

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Destroyed buildings are seen at an airport complex under construction in Karbala, Iraq, Friday, March 13, 2020. Iraq's military said five security force members and a civilian were killed early Friday in a barrage of U.S. airstrikes, which were launched hours after a rocket attack killed and wounded American and British servicemen at a base north of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)

Pentagon ‘confident’ airstrikes destroyed Iran-linked weapons facilities in Iraq

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

"U.S. Central Command is well postured to defend our forces around the region and to respond to any further aggression against our forces," the combatant command tweeted March 13, 2020. The remark comes in conjunction with the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and the USS Harry S. Truman conduct operations in the Middle East. (Image: Twitter, U.S. Central Command)

Iran warned not to mess with U.S. as CENTCOM spotlights ‘enormous’ firepower of nearby carriers

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth McKenzie Jr., commander of U.S. Central Command, left, walks to a House Armed Services hearing, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, March 10, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Taliban attacks ‘still too high’ in wake of peace deal, CENTCOM chief says

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

This photo released by the government-affiliated Media Security Cell on Thursday, March 12, 2020, shows a rocket-rigged truck launcher after a rocket attack on Camp Taji, a few miles north of Baghdad, in Rashidiya, Iraq. Iraq's military on Thursday said it opened an investigation into the rocket attack that hours earlier killed three servicemen, including two Americans, at an Iraqi base housing coalition forces that has been used as a training base for a number of years. (Media Security Cell via AP)

Gen. Frank McKenzie, CENTCOM chief: Iran ‘most likely’ behind deadly rocket attack in Iraq

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this April 14, 2018, file photo, then-Marine Lt. Gen. Kenneth Franklin "Frank" McKenzie Jr. speaks during a media availability at the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Taliban has driven ISIS out of eastern Afghanistan with ‘very limited’ U.S. support: Pentagon

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, center, top U.S. commander for the Middle East, makes an unannounced visit, Friday, Jan. 31, 2020 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photos/Lolita Baldor)

Gen. Frank McKenzie, U.S. commander, wary of full troop pullout from Afghanistan amid tumult

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012, file photo, U.S. soldiers, part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) walk west of Kabul, Afghanistan. A coalition of veterans and military-family groups are calling on states to make sure that troops stationed overseas get their 2020 general-election ballots with plenty of advance time so they can vote and postmark them in time to be counted. (AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi, File) **FILE**

Top U.S. Mideast commander casts doubt on future of Afghan peace deal

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times