Iran

Time -   The problem confronting Washington: the U.S. is fighting a war without a shared definition of victory. Time posed the question to more than two dozen lawmakers this week. The exercise laid bare startling disagreements over the main objectives of a spiraling conflict that’s costing the U.S. tens of billions of dollars and destabilized energy markets. Some in Congress described a narrow, achievable objective. Others outlined sweeping, almost utopian outcomes. The scattershot answers sounded at times like descriptions of entirely different wars.

Bloomberg - Iran and Israel exchanged missile fire and Tehran targeted several Gulf states, underscoring the willingness of the two sides to keep fighting even after Donald Trump’s latest push for peace talks. As the situation continues to develop, stay up to date with our live blog. 

The Guardian -   Saudi Arabia has urged the US to ramp up attacks on Iran, a Saudi intelligence source has confirmed, while it is weighing a decision on whether to join the fight directly. The Saudi source confirmed reporting in the New York Times that said the kingdom’s de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has urged Donald Trump not to cut short his war against Iran, and that the US-Israeli campaign represented a “historic opportunity” to remake the Middle East.  The intelligence source said Riyadh was not just calling for the military campaign to be continued, but to be intensified.