WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said in an interview aired Friday that American forces would strike Iranian targets “very hard” in the coming days, signaling an intensification of the US-Israeli campaign as the war in the Middle East approaches its third week. Washington and its ally launched the offensive on February 28 with strikes that killed Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei, triggering a widening regional war that has rattled global energy markets and drawn missile and drone attacks across the Gulf.

The United States and Israel pounded Iran on Tuesday with what the Pentagon and Iranians on the ground called the most intense airstrikes of the war.

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said in an interview aired Friday that American forces would strike Iranian targets “very hard” in the coming days, signaling an intensification…

PALM BEACH, Florida/DUBAI/JERUSALEM: US President Donald Trump threatened further strikes on Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub and urged allies to deploy warships to secure the…