You can look at before that. And I was against the war in Iraq, I said it's going to totally destabilize the Middle East, which it has. It's been a disastrous war." ...

Intelligence Official’s Unofficial View Is That Nuclear War Is Closer Than Ever© Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard outside the White House last month ...

Congress hasn’t declared war in 80-plus years The strictest reading of the Constitution suggests Trump, or any president, should go to Congress to declare war before attacking another country.

Although this nation has used force abroad more than 100 times, it has declared war only five times: the War of 1812, the Mexican-American and Spanish-American Wars, and World Wars I and II.

Dr. O’Connell compared the situation to the past decisions to go to war in Afghanistan in 2001 and against Iraq in 2003. In both cases, Congress passed a war authorization law.

The Israeli prime minister had set in motion plans to attack Iran long before President Trump began efforts to resolve nuclear concerns through negotiations.

According to Iranian health ministry figures, 610 people were killed on the Iranian side in the war before a ceasefire went into effect on June 24. More than 4,700 were injured.

As Warren Christopher and James Baker wrote in 2008: "When it comes to war, Americans deserve better than a law that is ineffective and ignored.” ...

The lack of pensions for Revolutionary War veterans was a national shame so profound that President James Monroe included it in his first State of the Union to Congress in December 1817.