Iran Conflict Tracker

Intensifying US strikes are shifting internal Iranian debate toward pursuing nuclear weapons as an existential deterrent, making a harder line more...

• Iran evolved attacks with course-changing missiles and drone swarms, draining U.S. Patriot interceptors and killing three soldiers
• Strikes...

The Trump administration is shifting back to sanctions and a naval blockade after its military campaign stalled against Iran.

• Economic pain...

• Israeli warnings of Iran assassination plots against Trump—including sniper, knife, or missile attacks on Air Force One—could not be corroborated by...

The USS Abraham Lincoln remains deployed in combat operations against Iran, yet Congress has never authorized the mission, defined its limits, or set...

• Iran-backed PMF militias reject Iraq's calls to surrender weapons.
• Syria's post-Assad vacuum leaves Iran struggling to retain its regional...

The Iran war escalation has emerged as a massive structural accelerator for hybrid warfare and geopolitically motivated cyber attacks against...

US and Iran are hardening positions over the Strait of Hormuz, each claiming control while rejecting the other's terms.

• US posture: Defense...

• CENTCOM launches Task Force Falcon Strike, its first multinational attack drone unit using air, surface and sub-sea systems
• The move expands Task...

Iranian drone strikes near Erbil are suspected of using white phosphorus, unleashing flames and thick smoke that caused severe burns to fighters...

Iranian officials claim their missile and drone forces remain largely operational after Israeli and US attacks, challenging prior damage...

US and Iran trade competing claims of control over the Strait of Hormuz, with Trump declaring 'total control' and Tehran insisting it remains 'under...

The Iran conflict is driving a multipolar shift as Gulf states and neighbors build independent defenses.

• Mecca Joint Defense Agreement unites Saudi...

A new Saudi-Türkiye-Pakistan defense pact signals Arab states seeking regional security alternatives amid waning U.S. engagement.

Yet parallel...

Iran's leadership is consolidating around confrontational voices, sidelining diplomatic efforts.

• Diplomacy abandoned: Iran and Russia have shifted...

• State Department directs Middle East embassies to develop reduced operations plans, cutting staff and assignments as the Iran conflict shows no...

Iran built its Axis of Resistance as a web of partners—Hezbollah, Houthis, Hamas, and Iraqi militias—to gain strategic depth and deter direct attacks...

Iran is pivoting to an offensive doctrine while refining real-time battlefield tactics drawn from other wars.

• Doctrinal shift: Supreme Leader's new...

Iran's grand strategy is unchanged—pushing the US out of the region—but its approach has grown bolder under new leadership.

• Surviving February's...

Pakistan continues mediating between Iran and the US, with Foreign Minister Araghchi holding a second day of talks in Mashhad with Interior Minister...