'My Favourite Thing...': Trump Threatens To Seize Iran's Oil, Signals Seizure Of Kharg Island

West Asia stood on the brink of a fresh and dangerous escalation as an unprecedented American military buildup signaled that the conflict had entered a far more volatile phase. Nearly 57,000 US troops were spread across bases in Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq and the wider Gulf, the largest deployment in the region since the Iraq War.