President Donald Trump is expanding U.S. military forces in the Middle East, giving his administration broader options to intensify operations against Iran as the conflict enters its fifth month and Tehran continues threatening commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The U.S. military has confirmed that a third service member is believed to be dead in Friday’s attack on a base in Jordan and identified them as Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad, 28, of New York. The confirmation brings the death toll to 18 U.S. service members killed since the war began.

Three military officials and a Pentagon spokesman gave conflicting explanations for why the number of Americans killed in the Iran war had changed.

Angel S. Rampersad, 28, of New York, is believed to have been killed in an Iranian attack Friday at a base in Jordan, the U.S. military said.

The U.S. military on Monday identified two soldiers killed in action last week as part of the war with Iran. The Defense Department said in a statement that 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Ewa Beach,

Video footage and satellite images reveal new details about Iranian strikes on U.S. targets during the latest flare-up in fighting.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 22 (Reuters) - Nvidia and the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) on Wednesday said that the AI chip leader has donated a supercomputer with its latest chips to a nonprofit linked to the institution.

The U.S. and Israel already work closely together on developing new military technology, and jointly launched the war on Iran.