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If Mr Trump is not serious about diplomacy, his second choice is whether America should join the war. Satellite imagery ...

The missile and air war that Israel and Iran have spent decades planning for has come, and it is spectacular and terrifying.

Although their country is in the midst of a tech boom, last year they raised just $20bn in IPO s at home and abroad. Only ...

The size of the crowds suggested a summer of sustained anti-Trump protests may lie ahead. The initial lack of violence is a ...

Iran sponsored Hizbullah because it wanted Hizbullah to fight the Israelis,” says Meir Javedanfar, an Iran expert, rather ...

During his second government, between 2009 and 2013, he tried at least twice to launch attacks against Iran’s nuclear ...

W E REMAIN COMMITTED to a Diplomatic Resolution to the Iran Nuclear Issue!” declared Donald Trump on June 12th. Within hours ...

After eight years as lieutenant-governor, in 2018 he was elected to California’s top job. He breezed past a recall effort in ...

That scenario now appears alarmingly close. On the evening of June 12th, Israel launched dozens of air strikes on Iranian ...

F OR DECADES America’s fastest-growing religious affiliation was no religion at all. In 1990 just 5% of Americans said they ...

In the 2000s alone America shed nearly 6m factory jobs. Such work often offered high-school leavers a route to a stable, ...