Jordanian government sources told Newsweek the country is among those that "will not serve as launchpad for attacks against Iran."

Top congressional Democrats called on Donald Trump to justify his willingness to go to war with Iran after a classified briefing led them to believe the US was poised to launch a new attack. The lawmakers did not disclose what they learnt in a briefing from US secretary of state Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe on Tuesday,

U.S. President Donald Trump's first option with Tehran is always diplomacy but he is willing to use lethal force if necessary, his spokeswoman said on Tuesday as his top diplomat prepares to brief top congressional leaders on Iran later in the day.

The United States appears to be on the verge of war — and Trump hasn’t rallied the country like his predecessors.

President Donald Trump has rewritten United States military strategy. What that means for Iran as the U.S. builds up firepower in the Middle East.

U.S. President Donald Trump briefly laid out his case ⁠for ⁠a possible attack on Iran in his State of the ⁠Union speech to Congress on Tuesday, saying he would not allow the world's biggest sponsor of terrorism to have a nuclear weapon.

As the United States assembles its greatest military firepower in decades in the Middle East, Iranians are warily awaiting the next round of talks with the U.S. in Geneva this week — negotiations that many see as a last chance for their ruling theocracy to strike a deal with U.

Trump delivers the first State of the Union address of his second term to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday,4, 2026. Credit: