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".

"They hit hard last night," one person in Iran tells us. Meanwhile, an Iranian official warns Donald Trump to be careful he doesn't get "eliminated".

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.

With the United States now in a shooting war with Iran, how might a protracted conflict impact gold prices? The historical pattern since the 1980s suggests that, beyond an initial safe haven bump, a ...