Pragmatic settlement exposes limits of US leverage after brief, costly confrontation

Donald Trump said he went to war because Iran would not negotiate. Now he claims peace based on a negotiation with a regime he cannot defeat or control.

Analysis: The understandings with Iran may give Trump the victory image he wanted, but they leave the nuclear program intact, Hezbollah’s future unclear and Israel’s freedom of…

Regime claims 'definitive victory' after being struck 13,000 times by the US and Israel