(NewsNation) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday said Iran is no longer a threat to the United States and called the U.S. military operation in the Middle East a “capital-V military victory.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday stepped up his threat to hit Iran’s critical infrastructure hard if the country’s government doesn’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz by his Monday deadline. Trump ...

An airstrike early Monday struck a residential building near Eslamshar, southwest of Tehran, killing at least 13 people, the semiofficial Fars news agency and Nour News reported.Airstrikes also ...