# Antiwar.com > Antiwar News and Opinions > Last updated: 2026-08-12 ## Search - Search URL: `https://original.antiwar.com?s={query}` ## Recent Content - [The Bomb in Monaco and a Torture Room Near Kyiv](https://original.antiwar.com/thomas_karat/2026/08/11/the-bomb-in-monaco-and-a-torture-room-near-kyiv/): They took her trainers. That is the detail that survives, once the rest is stripped away – the belongings removed from the corpse, the shoes pulled from her feet, the shallow hole in woods sixty kilometers west of Kyiv. Anastasiia Berezovska had been shot in the back of the head, then shot again as she […] - [The New Apologists for American Empire](https://original.antiwar.com/edward_hunt/2026/08/11/the-new-apologists-for-american-empire/): The Trump administration marked the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of U.S. independence with a series of statements in support of American empire. Despite the fact that Trump campaigned against endless war and the White House issued a National Security Strategy that rejected “global domination,” the Trump administration celebrated the nation’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary by glorifying empire as one […] - [The Long Road to War](https://original.antiwar.com/david_kasper/2026/08/11/the-long-road-to-war/): The war between the United States and Iran is rooted in events stretching back more than seventy years. As the major media continues to ignore the history, it is important to understand this essential backstory. If you’re wondering why the United States and Iran have been bitter antagonists for more than a half century, and […] - [The Silver Lining: The Donald’s Impending Defeat in Iran May Finally Bring the Empire Home](https://original.antiwar.com/david_stockman/2026/08/10/the-silver-lining-the-donalds-impending-defeat-in-iran-may-finally-bring-the-empire-home/): It is damn obvious that Washington has lost Donald Trump’s idiotic war on Iran. After all, it is now five months since the opening salvos of Operation Epic Fury on February 28, which was advertised to last only 3-4 weeks. Instead, the conflict has settled into a grinding, inconclusive stalemate at best, and, more importantly, […] - [Trump's Iran War Raises a Midterm Question: Who Decides When America Goes to War?](https://original.antiwar.com/peter_rodgers/2026/08/10/trumps-iran-war-raises-a-midterm-question-who-decides-when-america-goes-to-war/): On July 23, President Donald Trump threatened to carry out his “biggest attack yet” on Iran after nearly two weeks of renewed U.S. airstrikes. That same day, the House voted 214–208 to direct the president to remove U.S. forces from hostilities with Iran, while a parallel Senate effort failed 47–49. The contrast sharpened a question […] ## Complete Sitemap For a comprehensive list of all URLs, see: https://original.antiwar.com/sitemaps.xml --- *This file is dynamically generated and highlights our most important content.*