Bernie Sanders has sponsored an anti-war resolution in the Senate, while conservative Thomas Massie is doing the same in the House.

Conservative and progressive lawmakers want to force a vote on a resolution requiring the administration to seek congressional approval before going to war in the Middle East.

He refutes French President Macron's comments that he's returning to the US to work on a truce, after earlier telling people in Tehran to evacuate.

Hostilities between Israel and Iran have entered the fifth day after Israel refused any diplomatic overtures from Iran overnight to stop the ongoing conflict. In response, The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has issued an evacuation directive,

U.S. officials told multiple outlets that the Navy directed the USS Thomas Hudner, a destroyer capable of intercepting ballistic missiles, from the western Mediterranean Sea toward the eastern Mediterranean Sea, where it will join the USS Arleigh Burke. A second destroyer was also ordered to change course to be available if requested.

Strikes between Israel and Iran stretched into a fifth day on Tuesday, as President Trump made an early departure from the Group of 7 (G7) summit amid the escalating conflict in the Middle

Iran had previously threatened U.S. targets in the region and now blames the United States for the Israeli attacks

Shapiro served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East until January—charged with, among other things, considering scenarios in which tensions between Israel and Iran escalated into all-out war and preparing U.

The United States is reportedly expecting a "mass casualty response" if Israel bombs Iran's nuclear facilities. On Wednesday, the State Department ordered the departure of all nonessential personnel from the U.