"Americans face a risk of kidnapping, and U.S. individuals have been directly targeted," the U.S. embassy in Baghdad warned.

The United States is sending a 2,500-strong Marine expeditionary force to the Middle East, a U.S. official said, as President Donald Trump declared he would end the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran "when I feel it in my bones.

Iran has begun laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf channel that carries 20 percent of the world’s oil, according to U.S. officials, a move that could exacerbate the disruptions to global shipping and further rattle the global economy.

The war between Iran and the United States is rapidly intensifying to include other countries, including Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.

Iran-US war latest: Trump demands ‘team effort’ to defend Strait of Hormuz as he urges UK to send warships - US president urged the UK, China, France and others to send ships to end the blockade of th

An air attack struck a factory in the central Iranian city of Isfahan on Saturday, killing 15 people, Reuters reported, citing the Fars News Agency. There were workers inside the factory at the time of the strike,

New York Post correspondent Lydia Moynihan boasted that former President George H. W. Bush's 1991 Operation Desert Storm in Iraq was "very popular."