‘Not Our War’: US Allies Decline Trump’s Request To Send Ships To Open Strait of Hormuz

Trump: Iran Has Freed Detained American Woman In 'Goodwill' Gesture, After Days Of Bombing Summary Detained American woman freed by Iran; Trump: "appreciates this gesture of Goodwill by Iran!" Pentagon announces second wave of strikes later Wednesday, the after initial 90-minute attack to start the day. Trump threatens wider strikes unless Iran returns to talks - says attacks to 'expand' next week. Wednesday saw 5th strait day of US bombardment on chiefly Iranian coastal sites. Iran hits US-Gulf bases and warns on regional oil exports, says it is in 'control' of Hormuz Strait. No evidence de-escalation: Tehran rejects talks...

Israeli military vehicles rolled into the town of Hadr in Syria’s Quneitra Governorate on Wednesday and raised the Israeli flag over the town’s entrance. Locals say they also closed all but one road leading into or out of the town, and established a checkpoint on that road as well. Though Israel routinely raids Quneitra’s towns […]

China Loses Monopoly Over The Rarest Of Rare Earths With less than three weeks to go the Trump-Xi summit in China, the scramble for leverage and superiority - whether in terms of the Iran war or the just as important supply chain of rare earths - is on. That explains why the Pentagon’s push to get its hands on the rarest of the rare-earth elements leads all the way to this small port city in Malaysia. As the WSJ reports, Australia's Lynas Rare Earths has begun pumping out heavy rare earths,...