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US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that a US submarine sank an Iranian warship in international waters after Sri Lanka’s Navy said it rescued more than two dozen people from an Iranian vessel that was sunk off its shoreline.
The United States and Ecuador carried out a joint military operation against “designated terrorist organizations in Ecuador,” though the U.S. role was limited to advising Ecuadorian troops, and they did not participate in the actual ground operation, a source familiar with the operation told ABC News.
The Senate failed to advance a war powers resolution to halt hostilities in Iran.
The U.S. State Department closed embassies in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday and is urging Americans to evacuate from 14 Middle Eastern countries as the war with Iran escalates.
A U.S. Navy submarine sank an Iranian warship in international waters, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday, the first such sinking of an enemy ship since World War II.
The war powers vote in the US Senate has just failed in a 47-53 vote - with lawmakers taking their votes almost entirely down party lines. In the end, Senator Rand Paul joined the Democrats to vote yes on limiting Trump's military powers in Iran, with Senator John Fetterman joining the Republicans to vote no.
The war widened sharply after a U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing at least 80 people. NATO air defences destroyed an Iranian ballistic missile fired towards neighbor Turkey — the first time the country has been drawn into the conflict.
Iranian bombers came within minutes of striking the largest military base housing US troops in the Middle East before Qatari planes shot them down, two sources briefed on the operation told CNN.
Sri Lanka's navy says around 140 people are feared missing after a military vessel went down off its southern coast.
The U.S. military on Tuesday identified four of the first American soldiers killed in the war against Iran as the Trump administration warned the intensifying conflict would lead to more American casualties.