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Iran has warned the United States (U.S.) and Israel that it would launch further and more severe attacks, escalating tensions amid ongoing hostilities. According to Iran’s semi-official Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA), a spokesman for the country’s armed forces headquarters said on Thursday that Iran’s adversaries underestimated its military capabilities. ”You know nothing about our very extensive and strategic capabilities,” …

U.S. President Donald Trump addressed Americans on Wednesday night, saying the United States’ military “Operation Epic Fury” is nearing completion of its objectives in Iran. Trump, in an address from the White House, said the U.S. was intensifying operations in Iran, permanently disabling its ability to project power outside its own borders. The U.S. leader said the objective of the …

7.4-magnitude earthquake struck early on Thursday near Ternate, an island in Indonesia’s Molucca archipelago, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake struck at 5:48 am (2248 GMT Wednesday) between northern Sulawesi and the North Molucca Islands, around 127 kilometres west of Ternate, at a depth of about 35 kilometres. Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) initially reported …

The U.S. military on Wednesday said that it had struck more than 12,300 targets in Iran during the conflict, which has been ongoing for just over a month. The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees U.S. forces in the region, said in an update on Wednesday that its forces “Damaged or Destroyed” more than 155 Iranian vessels among the more …

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Four astronauts embarked on a high-stakes flight around the moon Wednesday, humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than half a century and the thrilling leadoff in NASA’s push toward a landing in two years. Carrying three Americans and one Canadian, the 32-story rocket rose from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center where tens of thousands gathered to witness …

LONDON (AP) — President Donald Trump has said he is strongly considering pulling the U.S. out of NATO, ratcheting up his criticism of European allies and exposing a wider rift in the transatlantic alliance — this time over America’s war alongside Israel against Iran. While Trump’s talk of a possible NATO pullout dates back years, the comments to Britain’s Telegraph …

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran kept up its attacks on Persian Gulf neighbors on Wednesday as airstrikes pounded Tehran, while U.S. President Donald Trump again made contradictory statements about whether he was ready to wind down the war or escalate it. Trump struck a hard line Wednesday in a Truth Social post, demanding that Iran stop blocking the …

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up one of the term’s most consequential cases, President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens, and he was in the courtroom on Wednesday for the arguments. The justices will hear Trump’s appeal …

The president is telling US allies — who didn’t join his war in Iran because they got no advance notice, didn’t want it and thought it infringed international law — that they’ll be stuck with the consequences. “Go get your own oil,” he wrote on Truth Social Tuesday, shortly before sources told CNN that the administration can’t promise to restore …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Gulf allies of the United States, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, are urging President Donald Trump to continue prosecuting the war against Iran, arguing that Tehran hasn’t been weakened enough by the monthlong U.S.-led bombing campaign, according to U.S., Gulf and Israeli officials. After private grumbling at the start of the war that …