The "big ⁠wave" is ⁠yet to come in the ​war with Iran, U.S. President ‌Donald Trump told ‌CNN on Monday, ⁠adding ⁠that Washington did not know who the country's ​new leader would be following the killing of Ayatollah ​Ali Khamenei.

Approaching midterm elections and a growing battle over the party’s post-Trump identity heighten the political stakes of military action.

President Donald Trump says the US continues to carry out "large-scale combat operations" in Iran to eliminate threats posed by the Iranian regime. As explosions thunder across the Iranian capital, we'll hear from a journalist in Tehran.

We begin with the Middle East conflict, as Donald Trump said the US will do “whatever it takes” in its operations to topple the regime in Iran, no matter the duration of the operation. The latest: Trump’s comments came after US secretary of defence Pete Hegseth said the conflict with Iran would not be “endless”,