Newsweek reports heavy national death tolls and market shocks while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the USA will launch its most powerful strikes yet and US Central Command reports 16 mine vessels eliminated.A preliminary US assessment and multiple media reports say a strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' school killed more than 165 children and that US forces are likely responsible, and the Pentagon is investigating civilian casualties.Operation Epic Fury has struck more than 5,000 targets, officials say, and planners are drafting options to secure oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz including US Navy escorts as insurers cancel war risk cover.Gulf states report widespread missile and drone attacks that air defenses intercept, explosions are reported in
Tehran, and President
Donald Trump warns on Truth Social that the
USA will respond with unprecedented force if mines remain.