Over the past four decades, the United States has increasingly relied on small, elite units to handle missions that fall ...

The 1979 Iranian Revolution was one of the most stinging U.S. setbacks of the Cold War era. A longtime ally that the U.S. depended on as a pillar of regional security, the shah, gave way to a ...

The 1979 Iranian Revolution was one of the most stinging U.S. setbacks of the Cold War era. A longtime ally that the United ...

As helicopters carrying special forces closed in on Caracas and the Venezuelan president in the early hours of Saturday, ...

As the Islamic Republic totters, the United States may soon experience a bookend of a terrible national embarrassment: the ...

The revolutionaries stormed the U.S. embassy and seized our diplomatic personnel in November 1979. If that wasn't enough of a national embarrassment, a dramatic rescue attempt by the U.S. military in ...

Trump rules out meeting Iran’s Crown Prince Pahlavi as protests grow, warns of “hard” response to crackdown. This live blog ...

Delta Force is one of the US Army’s most elite units—a team used for high-profile insertion missions, most often at night.

The applause surrounding Caracas should be restrained, not amplified. Strategic maturity lies not in celebrating capability, ...

Trump has reasons to be careful. Iran is not Venezuela. It is nearly as big as Western Europe and remains a military power, ...

January 3, 2026, dawn in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. The United States launched a military operation, and President ...