Iranian officials refused Tuesday to commit to peace negotiations with the United States, even as a U.S. delegation prepared to travel to Pakistan for talks ahead of the ceasefire's expiration on Wednesday.
Taiwan's president canceled a planned visit to Africa this week after three countries withdrew permission for him to fly over their territories, under pressure from China, his office said Tuesday.
By Jacob Wirtschafter
- Special to The Washington Times
Russia's foreign minister delivered a prosecution of the American-led world order from Turkey's annual diplomacy forum over the weekend. Sergey Lavrov called NATO an "aggressive bloc" and the rules-based international system a slogan that "never existed." He said the war the U.S. and Israel launched against Iran was "a plan to control the oil through the Strait of Hormuz."
President Trump will press China on its export of deadly fentanyl and related chemicals during a meeting next month with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, according to a senior Trump administration trade official.
U.S. President Trump announced Sunday that the U.S. Navy intercepted an Iranian-flagged cargo ship attempting to maneuver around the naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz.
Japan on Saturday signed a deal to sell 11 Japanese-designed stealth frigates to emerging defense partner Australia in a $6.5 billion arms-export deal that is Tokyo's largest ever.
Iran's military forces still hold stockpiles of thousands of missiles and attack drones that pose a threat to U.S. and allied forces in the region, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency told Congress.
Despite soaring Middle Eastern risk, factors including the tyranny of distance make U.S. and Venezuelan oil unattractive buys for the Asian industrial economies that supply the bulk of the world's manufactured products.
Jeff Thornburg, the CEO and co-founder of Portal Space Systems, joins the show to talk about dynamic space operations and how the recent Artemis mission has reignited Americans' fascination with space.
China is rapidly building up space-warfare capabilities and by 2040 will be conducting low-level warfare powered by advanced technology aimed at weakening the United States, according to a new Space Force report.
The greatest loser in the Hungarian parliamentary elections Monday was not the prime minister, Viktor Orban, but rather the American president, Donald Trump.
The U.S. is developing a nuclear-powered spaceship designed by technology critical to deep-space exploration and national security, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told The Washington Times in an exclusive interview this week.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry reacted harshly to the American military blockade of Iranian shipping, calling the Trump administration's escalation of the war "dangerous and irresponsible" but stopped short of threatening action against the U.S.
Ukraine is ramping up its assaults on oil-rich Russia's energy infrastructure in a bid to dampen the windfall Vladimir Putin stands to gain as prices and demand skyrocket in the wake of the U.S. blockade of the Persian Gulf.
By Jacob Wirtschafter
- Special to The Washington Times
After damage to energy production facilities and the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, Qatar's largest liquefied natural gas export facility will need at least three years to resume honoring its prewar supply obligations, a former QatarEnergy commercial official says.
After the 12-day war in June, President Trump probably thought something along these lines: "We gave those guys a good thrashing. They won't want to repeat the experience anytime soon."
In recent decades, the U.S. economy has become less prone to recession, but uncertainty about the ultimate outcome of the war with Iran may erase that advantage.
It's crucial that the U.S. establish a permanent base on the moon -- including a nuclear reactor on the lunar surface -- before China or Russia does, top Trump administration officials said Tuesday at a major space conference.