In a 19-minute address from the White House, President Trump said the U.S. would hit Iran “extremely hard over the next two to three weeks,” but did not make any revealing announcements. Zolan ...

A U.S. official said that earlier an Iranian strike at a military base in Saudi Arabia injured around two dozen U.S. troops, one of the most serious breaches of American defenses since the war began.

Although the US Navy has 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in active service, only around half are deployed at any given time—with the rest in port or undergoing maintenance. The United States Navy ...