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The United States has carried out strikes that caused “extremely severe damage” to three of Iran’s nuclear facilities, the top US military officer, General Dan Caine, said on Sunday.

President Donald Trump had spent weeks pursuing a diplomatic path to replace the nuclear deal with Tehran that he tore up during his first term in 2018.

But he ultimately decided to take military action against Iran’s nuclear program, which had already been bombarded in a more than week-long Israeli campaign that…

Unprecedented US strikes have wrecked Iran’s nuclear program, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Sunday as Washington sought to assess what remained of the three targeted sites.

The surprise strikes threaten to deepen conflict in the Middle East after Israel launched a bombing campaign against Iran, with Tehran vowing to retaliate against US involvement.

But the United States said President Donald Trump wanted peace and urged Iran to end the conflict after strikes on a key underground uranium…

A powerful US bunker-busting bomb was used in combat for the first time when Washington struck Iranian nuclear sites this weekend.

Israel had carried out a week of air strikes on Iran, but does not possess the GBU-57 — a 30,000-pound (13,600 kilogram) weapon viewed as necessary to reach the most deeply buried facilities — or the aircraft needed to deploy it.

General Dan Caine, the top US military officer, told journalists on Sunday that Washington’s forces dropped 14 of the bombs in the…

An Israeli air strike killed a member of Gaza’s Civil Defense on Sunday bringing the death toll of rescue workers killed since October 2023 to 121, authorities said, Anadolu reports.

In a statement, the General Directorate of Civil Defense identified the victim as Mohammad Nasser Ghorab, who was killed in a direct Israeli strike targeting his apartment in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.

With this fatality, the number of civil defense personnel killed…

The Israeli army claimed on Sunday that it had intercepted more than 500 Iranian drones since the outbreak of the current conflict on July 13, Anadolu reports.

In a statement on his X account, army spokesman Avichay Adraee said that nearly 30 drones were shot down by air defenses last night.

In a separate statement, the army claimed to have neutralized eight of Iran’s missile launchers, including six that were ready for immediate launch toward Israel on early…