US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen Dan Caine are giving a news conference at the Pentagon - watch live on this page. Hegseth insists the war will not become a "quagmire".

The US president says he will hit Iran "twenty times harder" if it blocks the Strait of Hormuz, as people in Tehran say the city had its heaviest night of strikes.

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