Oil briefly topped $126 on Asian markets on news the United States might resume bombing Iran and the Hormuz Strait closure could continue for months.

The $25 billion estimate that a top Pentagon official gave to lawmakers on Wednesday for the total cost to date of the Iran war is a lowball figure that does not include the cost of repairing extensive damage suffered by US bases in the region,

Last year, Congress approved a total end strength of 1,302,800 active duty troops, which added 26,000 troops to the force across the five branches. The final breakdown was: 454,000 soldiers; 344,600 sailors; 321,500 airmen; 172,300 Marines; 10,400 guardians.

Pete Hegseth has failed to give US president Donald Trump an accurate picture of the war on Iran while resorting to “dangerously exaggerated” statements to create an inaccurate picture of a US military triumph, a senior Democrat told a Capitol Hill hearing on Thursday.

USS Gerald R. Ford to return home. Three US aircraft carriers were simultaneously deployed in region for first time since 2003.

Hundreds of U.S. service members took part in welcoming King Charles III and Queen Camilla to the White House on Tuesday.

The US military wants to add thousands more troops as recruiting rebounds and rising global demands stretch the force.

Washington ― Top U.S. military leaders including Admiral Brad Cooper, the head of Central Command, will brief President Donald Trump later on Thursday on potential military action against Iran, a U.S. official told Reuters.

Speaking at a televised Cabinet meeting on March 26, the US secretary of defense boasted of US military successes against Iran in the ongoing war. “Never in recorded history has a nation’s military been so quickly and so effectively neutralised,