White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday that the US launched the war with Iran because President Trump had a "feeling" that Iranian forces were going to attack first. Leavitt made the comments when pressed on the claims that there was an...
A US submarine sank an Iranian warship with a torpedo in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Sri Lanka, marking an escalation and widening of the US-Israeli war against Iran. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth confirmed during a press briefing that the US sank the vessel....
The White House is expected to ask Congress for an extra $50 billion in military spending to replenish stockpiles of weapons used in the Iran war and other recent Middle East conflicts, Reuters has reported. Sources told Reuters that Deputy Secretary of War Steve...
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Wednesday boasted of the "death and destruction" the US military can rain down on Iran, as reports say that US and Israeli airstrikes have killed over 1,000 Iranian civilians in just four days. Hegseth said at a press briefing that the...
President Trump said on Tuesday that the US would provide insurance and naval escorts for tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz after Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) declared the waterway was closed, a response to the US and Israeli attack on Iran....
President Trump is open to backing militant groups who are willing to fight the Iranian government, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Among the groups Trump is considering supporting are Kurdish forces based in Iraq, who have thousands of troops along the...
US and Israeli attacks on Iran that began on Saturday have killed at least 787 people, the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) said on Tuesday, as strikes continue to pound targets across the country. US Central Command said on Monday that it struck over 1,250 targets...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday said that the US launched a war against Iran because Israel was planning to attack, an admission that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu steered the US into the conflict. "It was abundantly clear that if Iran came under...
The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) said in a statement on Monday that at least 555 Iranians had been killed since the US and Israel began bombing Iran on Saturday morning. Heavy US and Israeli strikes have been pounding targets across Iran since then, and...
An Iranian drone attack on a hotel in Bahrain injured at least two US Department of War employees, The Washington Post reported on Monday, citing a State Department diplomatic cable. "Two US DOW personnel were injured," the cable said. No other details were included...
