Thomas Watkins

Thaad air defences and anti-drone systems included in $8.46bn package

Pentagon to ask Congress for large supplemental funding package

US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says only the President can decide what constitutes immediate risk

'Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation,' Joe Kent tells US President in first known resignation over Middle East conflict

Successive US presidents baulked at bombing Iran because of the risk of it shutting the vital waterway

Inquiry finds the US responsible for deadly attack, reports say

Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal says US 'on a path' to sending in ground troops

Lebanon mourns deaths of hundreds of civilians and Gulf countries face continued attacks – your questions answered

US President suggests Iran's electricity production could be a target

'More of the same,' Israeli ambassador to the UN warns

US President declares: 'Make Iran Great Again'

Undersecretary of defence for policy Elbridge Colby once warned against military intervention in Tehran

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth says the US military can keep fighting longer than Iran

Messages from the US President have been muddled as a picture emerges of a shoot-first, ask-questions-later mindset

US Defence Secretary does not rule out sending American troops into Iran, as more forces arrive in region