"The collapse of even this minimal understanding could remove the last barrier between episodic confrontation and a forever war."

The latest escalation comes days after a fragile truce collapsed, raising the specter of a return to full-scale war, though analysts generally see that as less likely

The U.S. and Iran traded heavier strikes Thursday as a weeklong escalation threatened to unravel last month's truce, though Tehran's release of a...

Someone’s weapons are depleted, but it’s not Iran.