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‘Jennifer, you‘ve been...the one who misrepresents the most intentionally what the president says,’ defense secretary fumed during Thursday’s press conference.

Spiritual leader gives his first televised address since Donald Trump launched a bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear sites. But after a prolonged absence, questions about the ayatollah’s future remain

Hegseth attacks press corps for being insufficiently sycophantic towards Trump

Pentagon also reveals attendance figures were a long way short of total claimed by White House

Mark Rutte had an unenviable task at the Hague summit this week. The Nato secretary-general had to work with diverging American and European views of current security threats. After Rutte made extraordinary efforts at highly deferential, overt flattery of Donald Trump to secure crucial outcomes for the alliance, he seems…

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to hold a news conference on Thursday to offer a fresh assessment of strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, following a stinging row over how much American bombardment set back Tehran's nuclear program.

President Donald Trump says defense secretary will speak up ‘for the dignity of our great American pilots’ after feud with media over extent of bomb damage continues

The Trump administration cited "new intelligence" from the CIA to support its initial claim that US strikes on Iran were completely successful.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe says the bombed Iranian nuclear facilities ‘would have to be rebuilt over the course of years’