Iran may close the vital maritime route, through which one-fifth of the world’s oil supply is shipped every day.

The United States maintains a vast military presence in the Middle East, with forces in more than a dozen countries and on ...

As of July 2024, the U.S. had at least 128 military bases in other countries. The largest one is Camp Humphreys in South ...

U.S. Military Actions in the Middle East Since the October 2023 outbreak of war between Hamas and ... there were as many as 160,000 troops in Iraq in 2007, and 100,000 in Afghanistan in ...