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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 646

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This handout satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies and dated July 1, 2025, shows an overview of the Fordo Fuel Enrichment Plant complex in central Iran. (Satellite image ©2025 Maxar Technologies / AFP)
July 3, 2025, 2:19 am
Pentagon assesses strikes on Iran’s nuclear program set it back by up to two years
Echoing Trump, US spokesman says facilities targeted in recent attacks ‘have been completely obliterated’ as Iranian FM states ‘the technology and knowhow is still there’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth calls on reporters for questions during a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington, June 22, 2025. (AP/Alex Brandon)
June 22, 2025, 5:55 pm
Hegseth says US strikes ‘obliterated’ Iran’s nuclear ambitions; now Iran should negotiate
US attack was ‘intentionally limited’ to nuclear targets and not aimed at regime change, says Pentagon chief; top general assesses damage at 3 sites hit as ‘extremely severe’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivers a speech at the US cemetery to commemorate the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings, June 6, 2025 in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy. (AP/Thomas Padilla)
June 7, 2025, 2:24 pm
Pentagon watchdog investigating if staffers deleted Hegseth’s Signal messages
US defense secretary denies having shared classified info on a strike in Yemen over the texting platform, but has kept a lower profile since incident
By TARA COPP
Yemeni soldiers inspect the damage reportedly caused by U.S. airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)
April 30, 2025, 6:51 am
Pentagon: More than 1,000 targets hit in Yemen during air campaign against Houthis
US Defense Department says the strikes are ‘killing Houthi fighters and leaders… and degrading their capabilities’; UK announces joint attack with US on the Iran-backed rebels
By AFP
Pete Hegseth, US President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for defense secretary, testifies during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill on January 14, 2025, in Washington, DC. (ALLISON ROBBERT / AFP)
January 14, 2025, 11:43 pm
Trump’s defense secretary pick: ‘I support Israel killing every last member of Hamas’
Pete Hegseth makes remark during fiery Senate hearing in which Democrats grill him on sexual misconduct claims, past remarks against women serving in combat
By Jacob Magid and Agencies
Part of a tattoo reading 'Yeshua,' Jesus' name in Hebrew, and another reading 'Deus Vult' can be seen on the arm of Pete Hegseth in a video he posted to Instagram in May 2020. (Instagram video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 16, 2024, 8:03 am
Trump Pentagon pick flagged in 2021 as potential insider threat for extremist-linked tattoo
Hegseth’s fellow service member sent warning over ‘Deus Vult’ bicep tattoo linked to white supremacists; Fox host previously said was unfairly labeled as extremist for chest marking
By TARA COPP, Michelle R. Smith and JASON DEAREN
Fox News contributor Pete Hegseth arrives at Trump Tower on November 29, 2016, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
November 15, 2024, 6:38 am
Trump’s nominee to lead Pentagon has multiple Christian and Crusader-inspired tattoos
Pete Hegseth also has Jesus’ name in Hebrew inked on his arm, a tattoo he has recalled getting in Bethlehem: ‘Israel, Christianity and my faith are things I care deeply about’
By jacob gurvis and Asaf Elia-Shalev
This file photo taken on January 27, 2017 shows US President Donald Trump attending the ceremonial swearing-in of James Mattis as secretary of defense at the Pentagon in Washington, DC. (AFP/ Mandel Ngan)
November 14, 2024, 12:35 pm
Trump’s team said mulling mass firing of Pentagon officers who criticized him
In what would be an unprecedented shakeup, 2 sources say list of officials who could be replaced all seen as connected to Mark Milley, Trump’s ex-chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali
Pete Hegseth hosts the Fox Nation's Patriot Awards, in Nashville, Tennessee, November 16, 2023. (George Walker IV/AP)
November 13, 2024, 5:25 pm
Trump’s choice of Fox News host for defense chief post shakes Pentagon, US military
Selection of Pete Hegseth raises questions about TV figure’s ability to handle world’s largest military, its $800 billion budget, millions of personnel, and global crises
By Lolita C. Baldor and TARA COPP
This photo released by the US Air Force shows a B-52H Stratofortress assigned to the 5th Bomb Wing, Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, flying over an oil tanker in the Middle East on Sept. 4, 2022. (Staff Sgt. Charles Fultz/U.S. Air Force via AP)
November 1, 2024, 11:28 pm
Pentagon bolsters US presence in Middle East with B-52 bombers and warships
Planes and ships deployed to fill the gap as the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and its warships prepare to leave the region before USS Harry S. Truman arrives
By AP
The J. Edgar Hoover building, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters, is photographed on October 8, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images via AFP)
October 22, 2024, 6:46 pm
FBI says it’s probing leak of US intel on Israel’s attack plans for Iran
White House says still unclear if classified documents were intentionally leaked or hacked, no signs additional classified information has made its way to public domain
By AP and ToI Staff
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Republican-Louisiana, delivers an economic address to financial and business leaders, at the New York Stock Exchange, October 1, 2024. (Richard Drew/AP)
October 20, 2024, 7:33 pm
US House speaker confirms probe into intelligence leak on Israel’s Iran attack plans
Mike Johnson expects update as to how classified reports were published on social media; Pentagon says looking into reported disclosure of information
By Reuters and ToI Staff
An F-15I fighter jet of the IAF's 69th Squadron takes off from the Hatzerim Airbase in southern Israel to carry out a strike in Beirut against Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, September 27, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
October 20, 2024, 12:01 am
Alleged US intel on Israeli preparations for strike on Iran appears online
Pro-Iran Telegram account posts two files it claims to be observations by Pentagon on Israeli exercises, handling of munitions ahead of a response to Iran’s Oct. 1 missile attack
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: The US military returns a THAAD missile defense system from Israel to its home base, March 2019. (US Army Europe/File)
October 13, 2024, 8:09 pm
US confirms it’s sending missile defense battery, 100 troops to operate it, to Israel
Pentagon says deployment of THAAD system, associated crew of US military personnel, will help bolster Israel’s air defenses following Iran’s unprecedented ballistic missile attacks
By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and AP
Smoke rises from Israeli airstrikes in the southern village of Kfar Rouman, seen from Marjayoun, southern Lebanon, September 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
September 26, 2024, 6:53 am
Pentagon says US not providing intel help for Israeli operations against Hezbollah
‘No. No support,’ stresses spokesperson for Defense Department when asked about American military assistance for Israel in Lebanon, adds no signs of imminent IDF ground offensive
By Reuters
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