{"id":514299,"date":"2026-03-02T17:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T17:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/514299\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T17:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T17:41:09","slug":"israel-bombs-beirut-lebanon-targeting-hezbollah-trump-issues-warning-to-iranian-military-middle-east-flight-delays-continue-oil-prices-surge-after-strait-of-hormuz-threat-bahrain-iran-iraq-isr-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/514299\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel bombs Beirut, Lebanon targeting Hezbollah; Trump issues warning to Iranian military; Middle East flight delays continue; oil prices surge after Strait of Hormuz threat; Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Palestine, Qatar, Syria, UAE, Yemen travel warnings issued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, General Dan \u201cRazin\u201d Caine, said more US troops were headed to the region but declined to give specifics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have more tactical aviation flowing into theatre,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just about where we want to be in terms of total combat capacity and total combat power.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth confirmed there were no US boots on the ground in Iran but said he would not discuss what the military may or may not do in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Without naming any countries, Caine warned America\u2019s adversaries not to try to take advantage of US forces being engaged in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica\u2019s joint force retains the credibility, capacity and flexibility to respond to any continue anywhere in the world at any time,\u201d Hegseth said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo those who would test our resolve, or threaten the United States, our allies or our interests, understand clearly we can reach you, we can sustain the fight and we can scale the fight, and we will prevail.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, General Dan \u201cRazin\u201d Caine, said more US troops were headed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-514299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}