Iran’s response to days of aerial bombardment and long-range artillery strikes has proved more resilient than Trump administration officials anticipated.

The sinking underscored the scope of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran and its spread in the Middle East and beyond. It also ignited a debate in India about maritime security in the Indian Ocean — a region where New Delhi maintains a significant naval presence.

The Philippines extended the reach of a series of naval exercises designed to contest Chinese maritime pressure to the country’s northernmost islands near Taiwan while drilling alongside U.S. and Japanese forces last week.

On the 13th, just one day after Prime Minister Kim Min-seok, who met with U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, stated, “There was no request from the U.S. side for military support in the Iran war,

The Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, missile cruisers USS Gettysburg and USS Lake Erie, and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit are in the region.

The U.S. military has sunk Iran’s warship, the Soleimani, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, after days of U.S. and Israeli strikes across the country. The IRIS Shahid Soleimani, which U.S. forces said they sank Tuesday night,

In Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's second news briefing since the start of the Iran war, Hegseth said the U.S. had sunk an enemy ship by a torpedo for the first time since World War II.