President ⁠Donald ⁠Trump said ⁠the United States would escort ​vessels through the Strait of Hormuz ‌if needed, adding in ‌a Fox News ⁠interview ⁠that aired on Friday that the U.S. would ​strike Iran "very hard over the next week.

Meanwhile, sirens are triggered in Jerusalem, with the Israeli military saying it has detected new attacks from Iran.

The U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad has been struck again, and debris from an intercepted Iranian drone hit an oil facility in the United Arab Emirates as the war enters its third week

The United States is sending a 2,500-strong Marine expeditionary force to the Middle East, a U.S. official said, as President Donald Trump declared he would end the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran "when I feel it in my bones.

President Donald Trump announced that U.S. forces "totally obliterated" every military target on Iran's Kharg Island, a ket oil export site for Iran.

The U.S. military bombed Iran’s most strategic economic asset, Kharg Island. The tiny spot of land in the northern Persian Gulf is the launch point for 90% of the country’s oil exports. President Trump said he spared oil facilities in the bombardment,

Iran’s oil exports hinge on a small outpost in the Persian Gulf: Kharg Island, the loading point for almost all of the country’s crude shipments.

Trump said the U.S. bombed Iran’s Kharg Island, a key Iranian oil export hub, and warned against interference in the Strait of Hormuz.