TOI correspondent from Washington: The US-Iran war has entered its most dangerous phase to date. The conflict is now spilling across multiple middle eastern countries and sucking in new combatants – including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq – in an escalation that military strategists say is beginning to resemble the chain-reaction dynamics that preceded the outbreak of World War I.

Five months into the war between the US, Israel and Iran, the fighting hasn't stopped, it's just spread further out, and every side seems to be running low on something. This week…

Iraqi militias backed by Tehran are the latest targets in the ever-expanding conflict.

The flare-up on multiple fronts, after several days of relative calm, raised the risk of a return to all-out war. It also underscored the difficulty of winding down a five-month…