Real-time updates on the US-Iran conflict
An analysis of how the US war on Iran has turned Washington's own Gulf allies into collateral damage — with AWS data centers struck, Qatar's LNG capacity crippled for five years, Kuwait and Saudi refineries ablaze, and Israel's Dimona exposed. The cost of US unreliability is measured in decades.
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Three weeks in, the US has spent upward of $31 billion, lost 13 service members, killed more than 3,100 Iranians, struck a nuclear facility, threatened to obliterate power plants, and deployed 2,500 more Marines. Trump says he is considering winding things down.
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Twenty-three days into the US-Israel war on Iran, Israeli air defenses have failed to stop missiles from striking towns around the country's nuclear facility, killing civilians in Beit Shemesh and wounding hundreds — while a sophisticated censorship apparatus works to control what the world learns about these failures.
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Trump issued a 48-hour ultimatum on Truth Social demanding Iran fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face strikes on its power plants. Iran responded by threatening to destroy all US and allied energy infrastructure across the region.
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Iran's IRGC says its air defense systems hit and "seriously damaged" a US F-35 fighter jet over central Iran. The fate of the aircraft remains unknown.
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Read fullThe second week of Operation Epic Fury saw Iran appoint a new supreme leader under fire, US-Israeli strikes devastate UNESCO heritage sites in Isfahan, a KC-135 crash kill six American airmen, and the Kharg Island raid escalate a conflict that has now cost US taxpayers $16.5 billion — all without a single congressional vote.
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Seven days, $11.3 billion, at least 1,200 dead, a girls' school flattened, the Strait of Hormuz shut, and oil past $100 a barrel. A full accounting of what the first week of America's unauthorized war bought -- and what it cost.
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On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury — nearly 900 strikes across Iran in 12 hours, killing Supreme Leader Khamenei and over 175 schoolgirls in Minab. The day before, Oman's foreign minister said a nuclear deal was "within reach." Congress never voted.
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