The U.S. military under President Donald Trump is now free to fight wars without its hands tied behind its back, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller has claimed. Miller celebrated the joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran as “politically incorrect” and lashed out at what he called the “woke Pentagon” under previous administrations.

Trump said he was “very disappointed” in Keir Starmer for hesitating over allowing the US to use British military bases.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt clashed with CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins over the fallen soldiers from Operation Epic Fury against Iran.

Wang tells Abbas Araghchi that Beijing “cherishes the traditional friendship between China and Iran, supports Iran in defending its sovereignty, security, territorial integrity, and national dignity, and supports Iran in protecting its legitimate rights and interests,” state broadcaster CCTV reports.

Iran has fired hundreds of missiles and drones at targets across the Middle East, after announcing that its Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been killed in US-Israeli attacks. At least 200 people -- most of whom were at a girls' school in the country's south -- have been reported killed in Iran.

Israel sent troops into Lebanon as the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran widened, and some of Iran's Gulf neighbors warned that Iran's retaliatory fire could draw them into the spreading conflict.

RUSSIA is reportedly slipping intelligence to Iran as what’s left of the slain Supreme Leader’s regime lashes out with attacks across the Middle East. Pathetic Putin is helping Iran

The first, but least important, is that Turkey is a member of NATO and attacking it would trigger mutual defense measures under Article 5. Cyprus is in the alliance too, but that hasn’t stopped Iran firing missiles at the British RAF base on Akrotiri.