Top US officials spent Monday and Tuesday offering new details on the role the US military will play in helping ships pass through the Strait of Hormuz as part of President
Hours later, Trump shelved the operation entirely after being warned it risked escalating a conflict he is eager to bring to an end.
That decision — which Trump said he made at the request of mediator Pakistan — suggested the president didn’t want to risk another flareup in violence like the one provoked in the first day the ...