War

Another United States aircraft has crashed during the conflict with Iran ... this according to a report from the New York Times.

NYT -- citing two officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity -- reports that another plane went down in the Persian Gulf Friday.

The plane -- an A-10 Warthog attack plane -- crashed near the Strait of Hormuz around the same time an Air Force F-15E was shot down over Iran.

Shelly Kittleson -- an American journalist reporting from Baghdad -- has been abducted ... Iraq's Interior Ministry announced Tuesday.

The government department announced a foreign journalist was abducted by "unknown people" ... and The National, a publication based in the United Arab Emirates which covers the Middle East, confirmed with sources that Kittleson was the journalist taken.

Kittleson, who has reported from the Middle East for the BBC, Politico, and other major publications, was taken in Baghdad. She was reportedly near the Palestine Hotel on Al-Saadoun Street in the central part of the city when she was taken.

President Donald Trump is keeping up his attacks on Iran, unleashing a massive bomb strike on the city of Isfahan that was captured on eye-popping video.

DT posted the 31-second clip on Truth Social Monday night, showing 2,000-pound bunker-buster bombs exploding in Isfahan where it's believed uranium — which is used to make nuclear weapons — is stashed. 

The Wall Street Journal, citing an unnamed U.S. official, reported the attack targeted an ammunition depot in the city. 

President Donald Trump somehow turned a conversation about the war in Iran into an opportunity to claim he's a hit with the gay community in the U.S.

During a phone interview with "The Five" on Fox News, host Jesse Watters asked the president about "Ayatollah Jr." -- an apparent nickname for Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei, who took over as Iran's new supreme leader when his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was assassinated.

Jesse asked Trump about the leader's rumored assassination before speculating about his sexuality, saying ... "You kind of suggested we knocked out Ayatollah Junior, have we? And did the CIA tell you that Ayatollah Junior's gay?"

Sydney Sweeney is jumping into the U.S.-Iran war conversation ... sending a sweet message to her brother, who was just deployed overseas.

The actress posted the message on her Instagram Story Wednesday night, saying she received calls from her brother, Trent, which always makes her happy after he's dispatched to a foreign region as part of the U.S. military. 

Sydney wrote ... "Thinking of all our boys and girls overseas and sending my love! Thank you for your service."

Things got wildly uncomfortable on Thursday when President Trump made a joke about Pearl Harbor ... while sitting next to Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

During the White House meeting, a journalist asked Donald why he didn't give America's allies -- including Japan -- a heads-up before going to war with Iran.

Trump started to explain that he didn't want to "signal too much" before the attack, when he decided to turn the question back around on the journalist with a disturbing joke, saying ... "We wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"

British journalist Steve Sweeney and his cameraman Ali Rida had an extremely close call today ... while reporting on missile strikes, they found themselves dodging one live on the air.

You have to see this video ... in the middle of a report, a missile is heard getting closer to Steve. He ducks just as the weapon drops into frame and appears to blow up just feet away from him.

Shrapnel is seen flying in all directions -- including towards Steve and Ali -- as the camera continued to roll.

Pete Hegseth says he's keeping it real with his son when it comes to the Iran War ... telling his 13-year-old the troops who died in Iran made the ultimate sacrifice for the next generation.

President Trump's Defense Secretary was talking to the media Thursday at the Pentagon when he mentioned his son ... claiming his kid popped in to his office the night before, when he was working on a speech, to ask him about the war and the families of the dead soldiers he went to visit at Dover Air Force Base.

Hegseth says he told his son the troops died for his son's generation so they don't have to deal with a "nuclear Iran."

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is daring Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, to show his face ... accusing him of hiding amid claims he's been disfigured, instead of speaking publicly.

Hegseth ripped into Khamenei after the 56-year-old’s first message since taking power aired on Iranian state TV ... a written statement calling for unity that was read aloud by a presenter.

In a Friday briefing, the Pentagon chief questioned why Khamenei didn’t appear on camera himself ... suggesting he’s scared, injured, or on the run after the recent strikes that killed his father.

It looks like the White House is treating the war with Iran like a video game ... at least based on how they're presenting military footage on social media.

Check out this X post from the official White House account ... it's a mashup of Wii sports and Iran bombings.

We've seen some of this same footage before, with no games being played ... but now the White House look like they're ready to poke fun at war.

Other White House social media posts on the war have drawn ire from actors and singers, like Ben Stiller and Kesha, for using snippets of movies and music.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is blasting a report from ABC News claiming Iran wants to attack California as retaliation for the new war in the Middle East ... she says no such threat exists.

Leavitt went scorched-earth on ABC News in a blistering post Thursday on X ... quote-tweeting the ABC News report and writing, "This post and story should be immediately retracted by ABC News for providing false information to intentionally alarm the American people."

She ripped ABC News for what she sees as some shoddy journalism, adding ... "They wrote this based on one email that was sent to local law enforcement in California about a single, unverified tip. The email even states the tip was based on *unverified* intelligence. Yet ABC News left out this critical fact in their story! WHY?"

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President Donald Trump says Iran’s national soccer team can come to the 2026 World Cup in the United States -- but he’s warning them it's probably not a smart move for their "own life and safety."

The president took to Truth Social on Thursday with a mixed message for the Iranian squad ... saying the team would be welcome at the tournament while also suggesting it could be dangerous for them to attend.

“The Iran National Soccer Team is welcome to The World Cup,” Trump wrote. “But I really don’t believe it is appropriate that they be there, for their own life and safety.”

An attack on two Iraqi oil tankers prompted the country's authorities to suspend all oil terminal operations ... as the oil market is experiencing a historic level of disruption across the globe.

According to The New York Times, Iran claimed responsibility for attacking one of the vessels, which is owned by an American company. The outlet reports the other tanker is also believed to have been hit by Iran.

These attacks come after the International Energy Agency announced the world is in the middle of the "largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market." Adding to the crisis ... Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, the new Supreme Leader of Iran, announced the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed as a "tool of pressure."

Lindsay Lohan is finally back in the United States after nearly two weeks of having to hunker down in Dubai while Iran bombed the city.

Photogs captured Lindsay leaving an airport in NYC on Wednesday ... pushing a stroller as she made her way to a waiting vehicle.

The blonde bombshell -- who was accompanied by her husband, Bader Shammas -- smiled for the cameras but didn't stop to chat ... not exactly surprising given how exhausting this month has already been for the star.

The Department of War is reportedly so mad about some pictures taken of Pete Hegseth that officials have told several photographers not to come back to the Pentagon.

Here's the deal ... the Secretary of War has delivered multiple press briefings this month in the aftermath of the United States' bombing of Iran -- the first taking place on March 2.

Photographers were allowed in the room during the briefing ... but, The Washington Post reports, photos they took of Secretary Hegseth upset DoW officials.

According to WaPo -- citing two anonymous officials -- photographers were banned from briefings on March 4 and March 10 ... and Pentagon staff photogs took photos instead.