The head of U.S. forces in Europe yday acknowledged Russia may benefit from price spikes caused by Iran war. “The price of oil and gas has gone up. We know Putin depends on that,” Gen. Grynkewich told lawmakers, noting the impact depends on how long prices stay elevated.

Two U.S. officials confirm the Pentagon is expected to send elements of an amphibious ready group & its embarked marine expeditionary unit (ARG/MEU) to the Middle East PER @ellee_watson. The WSJ first reported.

I, along with print photographers, have been denied entry to cover today’s Pentagon briefing. All other media were allowed in.

The first week of the U.S.' war with Iran cost around $11.3 billion, military officials told members of Congress in a briefing this week, according to sources familiar with the meeting.

U.S. at fault in the deadly strike on an Iranian elementary school: U.S. officers created the target coordinates for the attack using outdated data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency, an inquiry's preliminary findings conclude https://t.co/2g5RQUpi1t

Whether we have zero photographers or 72 photographers, this story about the Pentagon is still true.

NEWS via @CBSNews: An Iranian drone attack in Kuwait that killed U.S. service members in the early hours of the war with Iran was more severe than previously known, with dozens suffering injuries that included brain trauma, shrapnel trauma and burns, per sources. More than 30

NEW: An internal pentagon memo sheds light on the dramatic steps military commanders need to take to remove Anthropic AI from key national security systems, including those for nuclear weapons, ballistic missile defense and cyber warfare.  w/@jolingkent https://t.co/ujBPNe89kS

NEWS: About 140 service members have been injured, most with minor injuries and have already returned to duty, @ellee_watson reports. Eight service members considered severely injured.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright on Tuesday deleted a post on X which had said the U.S. Navy successfully escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz "to ensure oil remains flowing to global markets."

7 US service members killed in action since Operation Epic Fury strikes on Iran began 11 days ago, and eight seriously wounded, a US official told @CBSNews's @ellee_watson.

Hegseth says the strategy in Iran is: - destroy their missile stockpiles, their missile launchers and their defense industrial base missiles and their ability to make them. - destroy their navy and permanently deny Iran nuclear weapons, forever. No mention of "day after" plans.

This is the Army’s only Space brigade and is focused on “missile warning, GPS, and long-haul satellite communications,” according to the service’s website.

U.S. "likely" responsible for deadly bombing of girls' school in Iran, per early U.S. assessment. The U.S. may have hit it in error due to out-dated intel wrongly identifying the school as still part of an IRGC compound. With @margbrennan & @Olivia_Gazis https://t.co/fMZHfL3MCb

A brief note of praise for our small but mighty, insurgent DC Nat sec team that has been working around the clock behind the scenes to feed top fact based reporting out to the rest of the network. They're strong journalists each and every one: @JimLaPorta @Olivia_Gazis

@kenklippenstein "Their loss is a grievous loss to all of us, but particularly to their family. So at this moment, we have to consider their mothers and fathers, their spouses, and thank them, also, for the sacrifice. It is a ... It is the cost of war, and it's a real cost."

Kristi Noem OUT as DHS Sec, Trump announces. Sen Mullin will take over at 3/31. (NOTE: he needs Senate confirmation) He says Noem will be “Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas,”which is having a summit in Doral with the leaders of 12 Latin American countries this weekend

"I just wish he could have known one more time that we all loved him." Family members remembered Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20, who was one of six American service members killed since the war in Iran started on Saturday. Coady was from West Des Moines, Iowa. He was a sophomore at

h/t @ellee_watson: A US official and a source familiar confirm to @CBSNews that a US Navy ship in the Mediterranean intercepted the missile targeting Turkey. The US official said the ship was the guided missile destroyer USS Oscar Austin.

Trump admin officials acknowledged during a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill Tuesday that Iran’s Shahed attack drones represent a major challenge and US air defenses will not be able to intercept them all. The drones, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint