Category Added in a WPeMatico Campaign
Russian escalation was all but confirmed overnight when dozens of missiles and hundreds of drones were launched at major Ukrainian cities, with the strikes killing at least 11 people and setting fire to a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Ukrainian military described how 70 missiles and 611 drones bombarded major Ukrainian cities, with 50 of the missiles said to have been shot down along with 582 drones. The remaining projectiles wreaked havoc across the country.
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) opened what it describes as Europe’s largest drone testing and development facility.
Whatever gets signed in Switzerland on Friday, the most consequential outcome of the war between the United States and Iran may be a conclusion forming in Tehran that no agreement can undo: that the only reliable guarantee against being attacked, invaded, or removed from power is a nuclear weapon.
Iran spent decades building deterrents that were supposed to keep that from ever being necessary — a ballistic missile arsenal, a ring of regional proxies, a threshold nuclear capability it could brandish without crossing.
A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor, flown by Capt.
In what was one of the most confusing moments in recent geopolitical history, the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran agreed to a much-ballyhooed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that extended the already-shaky ceasefire between the two powers, which had been in place since late April, for another 60 days.
In the late hours of Sunday, though, the two sides agreed to the MoU, with an official signing ceremony scheduled for this Friday.
F-35I Adir. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
If accurate, parts of what could be an Iran deal are coming out, and they don’t look so good for the Trump Administration.
According to a source inside Iran’s government that is being reported in many outlets, Fars News states that Iran will allow ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz free of charge for only 60 days, after which the country intends to provide security, maritime, environmental, and insurance services to crossing vessels and use the ‘revenues’ for its economic development. Yes, that sounds like a toll.
A wide recapitalisation programme has required increased acquisition expenditure in the years leading up to 2026.
Airmen from the Rhode Island National Guard and soldiers from the Michigan National Guard moved a powerful rocket artillery system more than 2,000 miles across the country this month, flying a M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System from Michigan to the National Training Center at Fort Irwin to test rapid deployment capabilities.
Troops from the two states’ National Guards pulled off a “HIMARS Rapid Infiltration,” or HIRAIN, over the course of June 6-13, according to a release from the Michigan National Guard.
For the rest of his life, Clyde Lassen rarely spoke of the night of June 19, 1968.
A private man, Lassen—who achieved the rank of commander during his two decades in the United States Navy—kept the harrowing details largely to himself. He rarely opened up, even to his own family. His two children did not even obtain a complete picture of their father’s heroism until a half-century later.
Also Read: An Army pilot shot three times during the Maduro Raid just received the Medal of Honor
Lassen didn’t have to say much.
Iran Just Published 14 Points Of The Deal Donald Trump Called “Complete” — And They Describe Something Far Shakier: Less than a day after President Trump declared the war with Iran over and the agreement “complete,” Iranian state-affiliated media published what it says are the 14 points of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) — and the terms describe a far weaker, more conditional arrangement than the one Trump announced.
Honestly, if this is the deal Trump agreed to or even sort of somehow agreed to in some vague sense, it’s hard to see how it makes it to a Friday signing.
The framework taking shape this week fixes the crisis that the war itself produced. It does almost nothing about the three problems Washington had with Iran before any of this started.
That distinction is getting lost in the relief. Oil is cheaper. The Strait of Hormuz is supposed to reopen. The Lebanon front is supposed to go quiet. Markets like all of that, and they should — a closed strait was costing the global economy real money every day it stayed shut.