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Trump calls Strait of Hormuz 'something that we don't need'

PHOTO: Royal Oman Police Coast Guard patrol boat surveys the area as the traffic is down in the Strait of Hormuz, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Muscat, Oman, March 12, 2026.
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By Kevin Shalvey, Meredith Deliso, Jon Haworth, Nadine El-Bawab
Last Updated: March 15, 2026, 11:46 AM

President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israel strikes attack targeting military and government sites, officials said.

Iranian state television confirmed that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was among those killed in Tehran on the first day of strikes. His son Mojtaba Khamenei was chosen on Sunday to succeed him.

Iran is responding to the operation with missile and drone attacks targeting Israel, regional U.S. bases and multiple Gulf nations. Israel is also intensifying its long-running strike campaign against the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon.

(Read previous Iran live updates here.)

Watch special coverage on Nightline, "War with Iran," each night on ABC and streaming on Disney+ and Hulu.

Key Headlines

  • IRGC declares it continues efforts to 'pursue and kill' Netanyahu
  • CENTCOM calls Iranian claims US targeted Gulf countries a 'lie'
  • War with Iran ‘will certainly’ end in next few weeks: Secretary Wright
  • Pentagon identifies 6 Air Force airmen killed in KC-135 refueling aircraft crash
  • Trump repeats calls for other countries to help with Strait of Hormuz
Here's how the news is developing.

Mar 15, 2026 11:46 AM

Responders working at 'several' sites in central Israel following Iranian aerial attack, IDF says

Rescue and recovery operations were underway on Sunday at "several incident sites" in central Israel after reports of an Iranian aerial attack, the Israel Defense Forces said on social media.

PHOTO: Israeli police inspect the husk of a destroyed vehicle at the site of a projectile impact from an Iranian strike in southern Tel Aviv on March 15, 2026.
Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images
Israeli police inspect the husk of a destroyed vehicle at the site of a projectile impact from an Iranian strike in southern Tel Aviv on March 15, 2026.
Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images

Mar 15, 2026 11:36 AM

Iranian aerial strikes target US forces at base in UAE, IRGC says

The Iranian military launched another wave of missile and drone strikes overnight, officials said statement on Sunday morning.

At least 10 hypersonic missiles were launched, along with an unspecified number of drones, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement.

The IRGC said the targets included U.S. forces at Al-Dhafra Air Base, in the United Arab Emirates, for playing "an intelligence-support role in the invasion of the Islamic Republic of Iran," along with being a regional command location.

-ABC News’ Somayeh Malekian


Mar 15, 2026 1:40 AM

Pentagon identifies 6 Air Force airmen killed in KC-135 refueling aircraft crash

The Pentagon identified the six service members killed when a U.S. KC-135 refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq on Thursday.

Three of the Air Force airmen were assigned to the 6th Air Refueling Wing, MacDill Air Force Base in Florida.

  • Maj. John A. Klinner, 33, of Auburn, Alabama
  • Capt. Ariana G. Savino, 31, of Covington, Washington
  • Tech. Sgt. Ashley B. Pruitt, 34, of Bardstown, Kentucky

The other three airmen were assigned to the 121st Air Refueling Wing at Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base in Columbus, Ohio.

  • Capt. Seth R. Koval, 38, of Mooresville, Indiana
  • Capt. Curtis J. Angst, 30, of Wilmington, Ohio
  • Tech. Sgt. Tyler H. Simmons, 28, of Columbus, Ohio

The crash, which involved another KC-135 tanker, is still under investigation.

The aircraft was lost while flying over friendly airspace in western Iraq March 12 during Operation Epic Fury, according to U.S. Central Command.



Mar 14, 2026 8:58 PM

3 injured after drones target air base in Kuwait

Two drones targeted Ahmed Al-Jaber Air Base in Kuwait on Saturday "resulting in some material damage in the vicinity of the base, and three members of the armed forces sustained minor injuries," the Kuwaiti army said.

Those injured are currently in stable condition, according to the army.


Mar 09, 2026 3:27 PM

France preparing 'defensive' 'escort mission' for Strait of Hormuz

French President Emmanuel Macron said he’s working with partners to prepare a "purely defensive" mission to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by escorting ships, once the "most intense phase of the conflict" in the Middle East has passed.

France is deploying eight warships, two amphibious helicopter carriers and the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier to the eastern Mediterranean, the Red Sea and off the coast of Hormuz.

Macron said a coalition of partners -- coordinated by and headquartered in Greece -- had already been formed.

“We are in the process of setting up ...a purely defensive, purely escort mission, which must be prepared together with both European and non-European states, and whose purpose is to enable, as soon as possible after the most intense phase of the conflict has ended, the escort of container ships and tankers to gradually reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which is essential to international trade, but also to the circulation of gas and oil which must be able to be transported out of this region again,” Macron said.

Ali Larijani, head of Iran's supreme national security council, said in a post on X on Monday that it's "unlikely any security will be achieved in the Strait of Hormuz amid the fires of war ignited by the United States and Israel."

Larijani also implied that France has been supporting the war and "contributing to fanning it."

-ABC News’ Tom Soufi Burridge


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