U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday made new, expletive-laden threats to escalate strikes on Iran and its infrastructure if it doesn't open the Strait of Hormuz by his deadline, after American forces rescued an aviator whose Iran-downed plane had fallen behind enemy lines.

President Donald Trump has made new threats to escalate strikes in Iran, a day after the dramatic rescue of a U.S. aviator after Iran downed his plane

The ⁠airman was the second member of a ⁠two-person crew of an F-15 that Iran ⁠said on Friday was brought down by its air defenses. Reuters reported on Friday that the first

The search continues for a missing airman after Iran shot down a U.S. F15-E Strike Eagle fighter jet on Friday, U.S. officials say.

A U.S. Airforce officer whose plane was shot down in Iran was rescued by U.S. forces early Sunday, President Trump announced on social media.

U.S. forces staged the audacious rescue of an airman behind enemy lines after Iran downed his fighter jet, officials said on Sunday, ‌resolving a crisis for President Donald Trump as he weighs escalating the war,

President Donald Trump on Sunday threatened once more to strike Iran’s civilian infrastructure if it does not move to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, raising the specter that the U.S. could commit what are considered to be war crimes in the country.

President Donald Trump did not equivocate in his first live address to Americans about the war in Iran. “We’ve beaten and completely decimated Iran,” he said in a prime-time speech from the White House on Wednesday.