U.S. President Donald Trump says he is considering winding down the Middle East military operation, but his statement seemed at odds with his administration’s move to send more troops and warships to ...

The move reversed earlier efforts to impose “maximum pressure” on the country and reflected how little success the Trump administration has achieved in calming global markets.

A U.S. defense official said that thousands more Marines are being deployed to the Middle East on an accelerated timeline.

The USS Boxer group of three ships, carrying thousands of Marines from the 11the Marine Expeditionary Unit, has left California and will reach the Persian Gulf in about three weeks, NPR has confirmed.

The Pentagon deployed three warships and roughly 2,500 Marines to the Middle East from the California-based USS Boxer ...

U.S. futures pointed to a flat open by the S&P 500 index when markets resume trading in the United States. The S&P 500 fell 0.3 percent on Thursday, bringing its losses since the war began at the end ...