Charges dropped against US teens whose teacher died during toilet paper prank The teacher's family had asked for charges, including one of homicide, to be dropped "to prevent a separate tragedy from occuring" over the prank turned fatal. Why is Iran's Kharg Island so important and why wasn't its oil infrastructure hit by US strikes? Donald Trump has said his forces carried out a bombing raid on Iran's "crown jewel" Kharg, a small island in the north of the Persian Gulf, on Friday. |
Will the US finally get to do ‘littoral warfare’ in the Strait of Hormuz? - analysis In the wake of the Cold War, there was a sense that warfare might shift toward smaller joint operations of all forces, known as "littoral operations." Ukraine Peace Talks Appear Paused Amid Middle East Conflict. What Happens Next? Efforts to negotiate an end to Russia's war against Ukraine have slowed to a crawl as the United States focuses on a widening conflict with Iran, leaving Ukrainians and their allies weighing what comes next for diplomacy -- and the battlefield. and the battlefield. |