The U.S. and Israel struck Tehran and other Iranian cities in airstrikes on the fifth day of the war with Iran. Here's what you need to know.

Asked about the bombing of a girls school in Iran, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said that the US was "investigating".

ANALYSIS: Dressed up in the language of strength, Hegseth’s speech lurched between teenage fantasy and outright gaslighting —while signalling something far more chilling in practice, reports Holly

The secretary of defense also boasted that a U.S. submarine took out an Iranian war ship in the "first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since World War II"

A submarine of the US sank an Iranian warship near the southern coast of Sri Lanka, stated US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday.

Kimberly Dozier said that the United States will "sound guilty" to the rest of the world after Hegseth responded to the attack on a girls’ school in Iran.

Since early morning Feb. 28, American forces in the U.S. Central Command area of operations have been involved in an intense bombing

The Pentagon provided few details, but the Trump administration has said that Iran’s efforts to kill U.S. officials is one reason the United States launched its bombing campaign.

President Donald Trump late Monday touted US munitions stockpile levels, though noting that the supply count “at the highest end” is not where he wants it to be. “The United States Munitions Stockpiles have,