Operation Midnight Hammer

US Air Force orders 30,000-pound GBU-57 bunker busters as Iran tensions rise

After using 14 GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOP) during Operation Midnight Hammer against Iranian nuclear facilities, the USAF needs to replenish its arsenal.

B-2 bomber drops a GBU-57 during a test
A US Air Force F-22 Raptor fighter jet climbs after taking off from the former Roosevelt Roads naval base, after the U.S. struck Venezuela and captured its President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, January 4, 2026.

F-22s pulled from Super Bowl flyover after reassignment for operational missions

An aerial view shows the oil tanker named Boracay (also called Pushpa), a vessel being investigated by French authorities and suspected of belonging to the so-called "shadow fleet" involved in the Russian oil trade, off the coast of the western France port of Saint-Nazaire, France, October 2, 2025

Oil’s geopolitical premium vanished in 2025 and may not return - opinion

U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu give thumbs-up at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 29, 2025.

US support for Israel not a favor from past but an investment in region's future - editorial


Trump’s Iran strategy aims for behavioral change, not regime collapse - opinion

The Trump administration's negotiations for a ceasefire with Iran are diplomacy built on carefully constructed illusions.

 US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters onboard Air Force One en route to the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, June 24, 2025.

Netanyahu in process of negotiations with Hamas, Iran launches new special legal group

IDF strikes Gaza, southern Lebanon • Hostage families meet with Marco Rubio • Trump says Gaza ceasefire could be reached next week

 US President Donald Trump meets Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington DC, April 7, 2025

US strike on Iran: A look at the ripple effect on American Jewry, antisemitism, Israel ties

The US's unprecedented strike on Iran raises serious questions about rising antisemitism in the US, the precarious state of US-Israel relations, and the security of American Jewish communities.

 CORY BOOKER (D-NJ) speaks at a House Democrats news conference in Washington, DC, in May 2025.

Iran using Houthis to build more missiles and threaten global shipping, Yemeni minister claims

Yemen's information minister said that Iran's plans to relocate its military industry to Houthi territory would endanger global shipping routes.

 Houthi supporters hold weapon, anti-U.S. and anti-Israel placards and wave flags during a protest in Sanaa, Yemen, June 13, 2025.

Israel had a decisive victory in the war against Iran, now it's time for one in Gaza – opinion

Now is not the time to rush headlong into a ceasefire with Hamas that will bring neither immediate hostage release nor long-term security to Israel, nor real relief to Palestinians.

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz attend a meeting of the Knesset plenum earlier this month. Now is not the time to rush headlong into a ceasefire with Hamas, the writer argues.

Netanyahu interested in meeting Trump in coming weeks, sources tell 'Post'

Regarding hostage negotiations, the Post reported that the idea of exiling senior Hamas officials and other terrorists from Gaza has recently resurfaced in discussions.

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump meet in the Oval Office last month.

Israel won the war, Iran lost it: Here's why the world is much safer for it – opinion

Operation Rising Lion exposed and humiliated the Islamic Republic, leaving the world a much safer place.

 Smoke rises following an Israeli attack on a Tehran oil refinery, on June 15, 2025.

Trump 'destroyed Iran’s nuclear capabilities' in Operation Midnight Hammer, Hegseth says

The Pentagon held a news conference to directly respond to a US Defense Intelligence Agency report that suggested that Iran's nuclear program was only set back a few months.

 U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth holds a briefing at the Pentagon, after the U.S. struck Iranian nuclear facilities, during the Israel-Iran conflict, in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., June 22, 2025

Send a clear message to Tehran: The proxy warfare must end - opinion

Jerusalem and Washington must send an unequivocal message to Tehran that the era of proxy warfare is over and that attacks by proxies will be met with retaliation against Iran.

 PROTESTERS, MOSTLY Houthi supporters, sit along an Iranian flag at a demonstration in support of Palestinians and Iran, in Sanaa last week. Aggression by proxies such as the Houthis must be treated as direct Iranian attacks, says the writer.

The danger of politicizing intelligence about the damage to Iran’s nuke program - analysis

The focus should be on giving Israeli and US intelligence agencies all the resources and support they need to find out the truth: what survived - and to track it so that it can be destroyed too.

 Satellite image shows a close up view of destroyed buildings at Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center, after it was hit by US airstrikes, in Isfahan, Iran, June 22, 2025.