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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine said Wednesday that U.S. forces are standing by and ready to act quickly if Iran fails to uphold the terms of the newly announced ceasefire.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, a chief critic of the U.S. war on Iran, welcomed President Trump's ceasefire with Tehran on Wednesday but said the U.S. leader put out his own fire.

President Trump said Wednesday his team is working closely with Iran to turn a two-week ceasefire into a lasting peace that prevents Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. will work with Iran to "dig up and remove" its enriched uranium that was buried under joint U.S-Israeli strikes last summer.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is expected to meet with President Trump on Wednesday to try to smooth over the president's anger with the military alliance over the Iran war.

Australia's most decorated living veteran, Ben Roberts-Smith, did not apply for bail when the war crime murder charges against him were listed in a Sydney court Wednesday.

President Trump agreed Tuesday to a two-week suspension of his threat to launch a sweeping bombing campaign targeting Iran's bridges, power plants, and utilities if they didn't agree to his demands to open up the Strait of Hormuz.

Detained aid worker Joseph Figueira Martin, who had been held in the Central African Republic for nearly two years, was freed Tuesday, his family told The Associated Press.

Three times a week, Asghar Hashemi undergoes dialysis treatment at a hospital in northern Tehran. He fears that if power stations are knocked out, as U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened in escalating rhetoric, his life will be in danger.

Actor James Woods drew a sharp line between Britain's sweeping firearms restrictions and what he called a creeping cultural and security crisis, posting Sunday night on X that the country has gone from surrendering gun rights to "standing on the edge ...