Follow live updates and the latest news coverage as U.S. and Israel strikes with Iran continue in the Middle East. Trump says deploying American ground forces remain an option.

President Donald Trump on Monday pushed back against mounting criticism that he hasn't done enough to explain why it was ...

Follow NBC News' live coverage as the U.S. and Israel attack Iran, Tehran hits back across the Gulf, and Hezbollah strikes from Lebanon, while Iran chooses a new supreme leader after the killing of ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said "the mission of Operation Epic Fury is laser-focused: destroy Iranian offensive missiles, ...

Iran hit the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia’s capital with a drone strike early Tuesday as it kept striking targets around the ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine held a rare on-camera briefing on Monday, March 2, ...

The U.S. military said Monday that the number of Americans killed during the ongoing conflict with Iran now stands at six.

The unprecedented language used at a Pentagon military briefing indicates that the Trump administration is preparing to use ...

Typical of an unconventional presidency, the Trump administration waited more than 48 hours to make any live, public communication to the American people about why it had decided to go to war with ...

As concerns rise over a growing regional conflict in the wake of the U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran, hundreds of Minnesota troops are currently in and around the Middle East.