What to know:
- Five days into the war, its reach continues to draw in more nations, even beyond the Middle East, as President Donald Trump’s administration works to justify launching it.
- Pentagon officials said the war in Iran is speeding up and that the U.S. expects to gain total control of the country’s airspace within a week as the conflict “begins to expand inland.”
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed the Navy sank an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, the first sinking of an enemy ship by a U.S. submarine since World War II.
- The U.S. military said it is investigating but did not confirm it was responsible for an airstrike on a girls’ school in southern Iran, an attack that human rights groups have condemned. Iran’s deputy foreign minister told “Ana Cabrera Reports” that about 170 girls were killed. MS NOW has not confirmed that number.