A conflict that escalates while Washington refuses to call it war
U.S. and Iranian forces exchanged strikes across the region as Washington pivoted from a lapsed June memorandum toward economic and military pressure, with oil prices rising and the Army secretary resigning.
At the first White House briefing since the press secretary’s departure, Vice President JD Vance refused to set a timeline and resisted calling the escalating U.S.–Iran exchange a war, as CENTCOM a...