Hegseth said the US military had sunk "an Iranian warship " in the Indian Ocean, with a torpedo. He didn't name the ship, but it follows earlier confirmation from the Sri Lankan navy that it rescued 32 people after a distress call from the Iranian Iris Dena, with around 140 people on board currently missing

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The U.S. is "accelerating, not decelerating" war on Iran, Hegseth says, as strikes intensify in the region and reach 1,000 miles away.

Tehran’s asymmetric warfare has dragged its neighbors into the conflict and roiled energy markets. Will it be enough to save the Islamic Republic?

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI, March 3 (Reuters) - Terrified residents of Iran's capital described it as a ghost town on Tuesday, its streets largely emptied by a U.S.-Israeli missile barrage apart from security checkpoints and Revolutionary Guards patrols that rove the city.

The Israeli military said that an Israeli F-35I jet fighter shot down an Iranian Yak-130, a Russian-made jet fighter, in the skies over Tehran, marking what it said was the first ever air-to-air shootdown of a manned fighter aircraft by an F-35.

In an official announcement in Tehran on Tuesday, the Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson said that any action by Europeans will be regarded as an “act of war” and met with a response targeting

U.S. military officials released the names of four American soldiers killed in the war with Iran as the State Department sought additional flights to get more than 1,000 U.S. citizens out of the Middle East as the war expands to neighboring countries,