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The June 2025 war between Iran and Israel, including the conflict's causes, outcomes, and potential future implications
As of the USNI Fleet and Marine Tracker snapshot on Jan. 5, 2026, none of the U.S. Navy’s 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers were shown operating inside the U.S. Fifth Fleet area of responsibility, ...
The Abraham Accords formalized diplomatic ties between Israel and four Arab states—United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan (though Sudan’s deal remained troubled)—but many regional states hav...
The UAE and Bahrain received a mix of concrete diplomatic, security and economic incentives in return for formal normalization with Israel under the Abraham Accords: U.S. political backing (including ...
Counting "allies" for Israel depends on definition: as of January 2026, 166 of the 192 other UN member states formally recognize Israel as a sovereign state—about 86% of UN members—which is a useful b...
A conventional, decisive Iranian military victory over Israel is highly unlikely given Israel’s technological air and missile-defense edge, U.S. backing and concentrated, integrated forces, yet Iran c...