What to know
- Five days into the war with Iran, the U.S. and Israel have struck nearly 2,000 targets, according to Adm. Brad Cooper from U.S. Central Command. The military operation continues to draw in more nations, even beyond the Middle East, as President Donald Trump’s administration works to justify launching it.
- Trump said at a meeting with major tech companies that the U.S. is “doing well” in its attack on Iran. Pentagon officials said the U.S. expects to gain total control of the country’s airspace within a week as the conflict “begins to expand inland.”
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed the Navy sank an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, the first sinking of an enemy ship by a U.S. submarine since World War II.
- The U.S. military said it is investigating but did not confirm that it was responsible for an airstrike on a girls’ school in southern Iran, an attack that human rights groups have condemned. Iran’s deputy foreign minister told “Ana Cabrera Reports” that about 170 girls were killed.