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      Thomas Watkins

      Thomas Watkins

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      Thomas Watkins is US bureau chief and foreign correspondent at The National. He has worked across America, Europe and South Asia and reported from 30 countries, primarily for Agence France-Presse as Pentagon correspondent and Af-Pak bureau chief. He joined The National in 2021 to help set up the Washington bureau and manage its 10-person team. Thomas holds degrees in psychology and journalism.
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      Joe Kent has said he could not 'in good faith' support the US-Israeli war against Iran. AFP
      US counter-terrorism head resigns, claiming Israel deceived Trump

      'Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation,' Joe Kent tells US President in first known resignation over Middle East conflict

      USMarch 17, 2026
      Tankers sail in the Arabian Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz. Reuters
      CommentOut of his depth? Trump flounders in the Strait of Hormuz

      Successive US presidents baulked at bombing Iran because of the risk of it shutting the vital waterway

      CommentMarch 12, 2026
      The funeral ceremony for victims of the air strike on a girls' school in Minab, southern Iran. EPA
      'A terrible mistake': US senator apologises for strike on Iran primary school

      Inquiry finds the US responsible for deadly attack, reports say

      USMarch 11, 2026
      Pete Hegseth, left, US Defence Secretary, and Gen Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a media briefing in the Pentagon. Reuters
      Play01:03
      Tuesday to be most intense day of US strikes against Iran so far, Hegseth vows

      Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal says US 'on a path' to sending in ground troops

      USMarch 10, 2026
      Q&A replay: Second week of Iran war
      Play1:00:04
      Q&A replayUS-Iran war and regional attacks

      Lebanon mourns deaths of hundreds of civilians and Gulf countries face continued attacks – your questions answered

      MENAMarch 10, 2026
      US President Donald Trump takes a question at a media conference at Trump National Doral Miami in Miami, on March 9. Reuters
      Play00:27
      Iran responds after Trump claims war may end 'very soon'

      US President suggests Iran's electricity production could be a target

      USMarch 09, 2026
      Mojtaba Khamenei, pictured in 2019, has close ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Basij paramilitary. Reuters
      Iran names Khamenei's son Mojtaba as new supreme leader

      'More of the same,' Israeli ambassador to the UN warns

      NewsMarch 08, 2026
      President Donald Trump said that once the conflict ends, the US and its allies would bring Iran back 'from the brink of destruction'. AFP
      Trump demands Iran's 'unconditional surrender'

      US President declares: 'Make Iran Great Again'

      USMarch 06, 2026
      Elbridge Colby, undersecretary of defence for policy, faces questions during a Senate armed services committee hearing. Bloomberg
      Pentagon official who said Iran conflict would hurt the US now defends the war

      Undersecretary of defence for policy Elbridge Colby once warned against military intervention in Tehran

      USMarch 06, 2026
      US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth said the Iranian navy 'rests at the bottom' of the Arabian Gulf. EPA
      America ‘winning’ Iran war with navy and air force destroyed, Hegseth says

      Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth says the US military can keep fighting longer than Iran

      NewsMarch 04, 2026
      President Donald Trump announces the start of 'major combat operations' early on February 28. AFP
      CommentSalesman Trump forgot to sell the Iran war to America

      Messages from the US President have been muddled as a picture emerges of a shoot-first, ask-questions-later mindset

      CommentMarch 03, 2026
      US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth has said there will be 'no stupid rules of engagement' in the war with Iran. Reuters
      US to 'easily prevail' in Iran, Trump says as Pentagon vows no 'nation building'

      US Defence Secretary does not rule out sending American troops into Iran, as more forces arrive in region

      USMarch 02, 2026
      A live Q&A in response to the US-Iran war and retaliatory strikes
      Play55:48
      Q&A replayUS-Iran war and regional retaliation

      US and Israeli strikes on Iran prompt retaliatory attacks on bases in Gulf states – your questions answered

      MENAFebruary 28, 2026
      A news ticker announces US strikes on Iran in New York. The attack has divided Donald Trump's supporters. Bloomberg
      Trump risks political fallout from Iran strikes during crucial election year

      He promised peace but has started a war. Whether voters will support him will be tested in the midterms in November

      USFebruary 28, 2026
      A Pakistani soldier stands guard in a bunker at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Chaman. AFP
      How can the Afghanistan-Pakistan conflict be defused?

      US President Donald Trump signals openness to getting involved

      USFebruary 27, 2026
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