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Washington, March 13 – Senate Democrats intensified their criticism of President Donald Trump's war in Iran, calling the conflict illegal, costly, and unconstitutional, while demanding public testimony from top administration officials.The sharpest criticism came from Senator Tim Kaine, a...

March 12, New Delhi: Almost every U.S. Senate Democrat signed a letter sent to U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday, requesting a swift investigation into the airstrikes on a girls' school in Iran that killed dozens of children.U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that...

Washington, March 10 – A group of senior Democratic lawmakers has called for a full investigation into an apparent attack on an Iranian girls' school that reportedly killed at least 175 people, most of them children.In a joint statement, US Senators Mark R. Warner, Brian Schatz, Patty Murray...

Washington, March 9 – A newly surfaced video appears to show a US Tomahawk cruise missile striking an Iranian military facility next to an elementary school in the southern town of Minab, adding new questions to competing claims over a deadly attack that reportedly killed dozens of civilians...

Washington, March 9 – The United States has said it will ensure the security of the Strait of Hormuz and maintain the free flow of global energy supplies as the conflict with Iran escalates, while warning that Tehran is miscalculating American military resolve.In an interview with CBS’s 60...

March 08, New Delhi – U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attended the repatriation of six American service members killed in a drone strike, marking the first U.S. troop deaths in the West Asia conflict.The troops were killed last Sunday when a drone struck a U.S. command...

Washington, March 8 – Under a grey afternoon sky at Dover Air Force Base, the silence on the flight line was broken only by the slow steps of an honour guard carrying transfer cases draped in the American flag. President Donald Trump stood at attention, raising his hand in salute as each case...

New Delhi, March 6 Days before the US torpedoed and sank the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena, India approved emergency docking for another Iranian naval vessel in Kochi after it developed a technical problem, government sources said on Friday.The vessel, docked in Kochi on March 4 with its 183 crew...

New Delhi, March 6 Top government sources on Friday described claims that the Indian Navy provided intelligence to the US about an Iranian frigate that was sunk by a US military submarine two days ago off the coast of Sri Lanka as "baseless and preposterous."There is no question of providing...

New Delhi, March 5 A day after a US submarine torpedoed and sank an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka, the Indian Navy said on Thursday that it had deployed its long-range anti-submarine and maritime patrol aircraft to augment the search operation launched by Colombo to rescue the crew...

Washington, March 5 US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Thursday that "Americans don't want war", sharply criticizing President Donald Trump's handling of the escalating conflict with Iran and accusing Senate Republicans of backing what he called the President's "military escapades"...

Tehran, March 5 – Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Aragchi strongly condemned the United States for attacking and sinking the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena in the Indian Ocean, describing the incident as an “atrocity at sea” and warning that Washington would “bitterly regret” setting such a...

Washington, March 5 – Secretary of War Pete Hegseth will visit the headquarters of US Central Command (CENTCOM) in Tampa, Florida, on Thursday (local time) to receive operational updates on the ongoing military campaign against Iran, the Pentagon said.Hegseth will meet CENTCOM commander Adm...

New Delhi/Colombo, March 4 In a significant escalation of the West Asia crisis, a US submarine torpedoed and sank an Iranian warship in international waters off the coast of Sri Lanka on Wednesday, while it was returning after participating in the Milan naval exercise, a multilateral wargame...

New York, March 4 – War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday that the US has killed the mastermind of failed plots to assassinate President Donald Trump, while a Pakistani man is on trial here, charged in one of the schemes.Hegseth said at a press conference in Washington, “Yesterday...

Washington, March 4 – The United States is deploying autonomous systems and artificial intelligence-enabled technologies in its ongoing military campaign against Iran, according to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who spoke at a Pentagon briefing on Operation Epic Fury.Hegseth confirmed that...

Colombo, March 4 Sri Lanka said on Wednesday that its Navy rescued 32 Iranian sailors from a naval ship that sank off the southern coast, while several bodies were recovered from the site.Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath told Parliament that an emergency message was received by the Sri Lanka...

Washington, March 2 – The White House on Monday unveiled President Donald Trump's 2026 Trade Policy Agenda, declaring that "America is back" and vowing to deepen tariffs, enforce trade laws, and renegotiate key agreements to reduce what it calls a national emergency driven by record trade...

Washington, March 1 – US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that the United States has launched “OPERATION EPIC FURY,” calling it “the most lethal, most complex, and most precise aerial operation in history” and warning Tehran of severe military consequences.“Following orders from...

Washington, February 28 – US President Donald Trump ordered all federal agencies to immediately stop using technology from the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, escalating a public clash over the military use of advanced AI systems.“THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL NEVER ALLOW A...