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The US defence secretary declines to give a timeline for ending the US-Israeli war with Iran

Pete Hegseth plays down fears his country is entering a new open-ended conflict.

As the US-Israeli war against Iran continues to widen, President Trump's defence secretary has declared the American military action the "most lethal, most complex and most precise aerial operation in history". Also: Iran launches fresh attacks on targets across the Gulf. And the Iranian Red Crescent says more than 550 people have been killed in Iran.

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