U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday made new, expletive-laden threats to escalate strikes on Iran and its infrastructure if it doesn't open the Strait of Hormuz by his deadline, after American forces rescued an aviator whose Iran-downed plane fell behind enemy lines.

President Trump addresses the nation from the Oval Office on the current state of the war in Iran and fires his attorney general, Pam Bondi, the very next day. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports on the week at the White House.

President Trump has issued a new threat to Tehran following the rescue of two U.S. aviators in Iran. Follow Newsweek's live blog.

WASHINGTON—Just 48 hours after President Trump had all but declared Tehran was militarily defeated and looking for a deal to end the war, Iran downed two American warplanes. Trump’s repeated declarations that the war is nearly over are colliding with the gritty battlefield reality,

The downing of a US aircraft and the dayslong search for a missing crew member has pierced the aura of invincibility that President Donald Trump has sought to project as he tries to stave off the increasing political risks of the Iran war he started five weeks ago alongside Israel.

U.S. President Donald Trump warned Iran to open the crucial Strait of Hormuz by his Monday deadline and Tehran called his threat “unbalanced and foolish.” The search for a missing U.S. military pilot continued Saturday in a remote part of the Islamic Republic.

President Donald Trump did not equivocate in his first live address to Americans about the war in Iran. “We’ve beaten and completely decimated Iran,” he said in a prime-time speech from the White House on Wednesday.

Iran’s atomic agency says an airstrike has hit near its Bushehr nuclear facility, killing a security guard and damaging a support building