As the Strait of Hormuz has emerged as the key battleground in the U.S. military operation against Iran, which began on the 28th of last month, U.S. President Donald Trump’s explicit request on the 14th for five countries,

The Pentagon is weighing sending additional warships to the Middle East in preparation to escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, as Iran steps up its attacks on the strategic waterway, according to two U.

Before the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, Washington assembled its largest force and some of its most powerful weaponry in the Middle East in decades.

American warships now crowding the waters around Iran sit at the intersection of diplomacy and danger, where a single misread signal could matter more than any order from Washington. President Donald Trump may want leverage without war, but the scale and ...