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Hegseth says clock paused on deadline to seek approval for Iran war

Hegseth says clock paused on deadline to seek approval for Iran war US Defence Secretary Pete

Hegseth testifies on Iran war before Senate committee: Key takeaways

Hegseth testifies on Iran war before Senate committee: Key takeaways United States Secretary of Defense Pete

Hegseth says US blockade to continue, ready for new attacks on Iran energy

Hegseth says US blockade to continue, ready for new attacks on Iran energy United States Pentagon Chief Pete

Navy admiral fired by Hegseth advances in South Carolina Democratic House primary

Hegseth advances in South Carolina Democratic House primary A three-star navy rear-admiral fired by [Pete

US-Iran ceasefire holds despite Hormuz standoff: Pentagon chief Hegseth

Pete Hegseth tells reporters. Hegseth said on Tuesday that President [Donald Trump](/news/2026/5/4/trumps-project-freedom-can-us-navy-guide-stuck-ships-out-of-hormuz) will make

Hegseth says US is ‘locked and loaded’ to finish job of destroying Iran energy grid

Hegseth says US is ‘locked and loaded’ to finish job of destroying Iran energy grid Iran’s energy infrastructure is “not destroyed yet” and the US is “locked and loaded” to finish the job, [Pete

Trump's rift with Pope is playing out in public - it's costing him valuable support

Pete Hegseth recited a highly controversial prayer at a Pentagon worship service that talked of "overwhelming

Hegseth’s Pentagon prayer mirrors fake bible verse from Pulp Fiction

Pete Hegseth](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/pete-hegseth) this week, including [articles of impeachment](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/15/democrats-pete-hegseth-impeachment) brought

Can Pakistan secure Iran-US nuclear compromise, as Trump says deal ‘close’?

Pete Hegseth used a Pentagon news conference on Thursday morning to reinforce Washington’s coercive

Trump’s navy secretary ousted over dispute about shipbuilding

Pete Hegseth](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/pete-hegseth), the powerful deputy secretary of defense Steve Feinberg and Phelan

Trump hails ‘special relationship’ during ceremonial welcome for King Charles’s state visit

Marco Rubio, secretary of defence Pete Hegseth and Steve Witkoff, special envoy for peace missions.

Iran war: What’s happening on day 55 after Trump extended ceasefire?

Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon chief, fired Navy Secretary John Phelan, marking the 34th senior official

The pope has shown the world how to stand up to Trump

Pete Hegseth, and the gaggle of faux “Christian” preachers cheerleading a calamitous war of choice

Germany’s Merz downplays rift with Washington despite US troop drawdown

Pete Hegseth ordered the withdrawal of around 5,000 American soldiers over the next 12 months

Amnesty calls for US strike on Yemen to be investigated as war crime

Pete Hegseth said a separate investigation into another US strike in Minab was continuing. Amnesty

Pentagon says navy secretary is leaving, marking another top leader’s departure

Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, fired the army’s top officer, Gen Randy George. Hegseth

Weeks of silence over Iran school strike highly unusual, former US officials say

Pete Hegseth was asked by the BBC on 4 March about the strike and said

Trump calls Iran’s leadership ‘fractured’. Is it, and who’s in charge?

Pete Hegseth claimed Iran’s new supreme leader had been wounded in US-Israeli strikes

‘It’s kind of a tough situation’: US Catholics torn in feud between president and the pope

Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, quoting from the Book of Tarantino, in a sermon delivered

Germany troop cuts send wrong signal to Russia, say two top US Republicans

Pete Hegseth. "We expect the withdrawal to be completed over the next six to twelve