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Trump threatens to blast Iran ‘back to the Stone Ages’ ahead of primetime address on war tonight

President Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed that he’d rejected a request for a ceasefire from Iran’s president as he threatened to bomb the country “back to the Stone Ages” if Tehran does not allow ships to resume passing freely through the Strait of Hormuz.
Writing on Truth Social, Trump said “Iran’s New Regime President” — who he described as “much less Radicalized and far more intelligent than his predecessors” — had asked for a “ceasefire” from the U.S.
“We will consider when Hormuz Strait is open, free, and clear. Until then, we are blasting Iran into oblivion or, as they say, back to the Stone Ages,” he added.
The U.S. president is due to deliver a primetime address on the war Wednesday evening. His latest remarks come as the U.S. has failed to rally a force capable of re-opening and guaranteeing safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, a major waterway and energy traffic route off Iran’s coast that has become the focal point in the war Trump launched last month.
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Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kyiv’s forces make gains on battlefield ahead of Geneva peace talks

CloseUkraine neutralises North Korean 'Koksan' artillery after detecting heat signatureUkrainian soldiers have made battlefield gains on the eastern frontlines after Russian troops lost access to Starlink satellite internet, a US-based think tank said.
Ukrainian forces managed to recapture 78 sq miles from Russia between Wednesday and Sunday, equivalent to the Russian gains for the entire month of December, data from the Institute for the Study of War showed.
It marks the most land retaken by Kyiv’s forces in such a short period since a June 2023 counteroffensive, undoing weeks of Russian advances to the east of Zaporizhzhia city at a crucial time ahead of talks with Russia today.
Delegations will meet in Geneva on Tuesday and Wednesday for a fresh round of US-mediated peace talks that the Kremlin says are likely to focus on land, the main sticking point.
Russia is still asserting hardline demands that Ukraine cede the remaining 20% of the eastern region of Donetsk that Mosco..

US fighter jets scrambled to intercept at least five Russian warplanes over Alaska

Nine U.S. fighter jets have been scrambled to intercept five Russian warplanes spotted off Alaska.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command, based at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado, said it had detected and tracked two Tu-95 long-range strategic bombers, two Su-35 fighter planes, and one A-50 spy plane crossing Alaska’s coastal Air Defense Identification Zone on Thursday.
NORAD said it had responded by launching two F-16s, two F-35s, one E-3, and four KC-135s to intercept the planes, positively identify them, and escort them out of the ADIZ.
The command described Russian activity in the ADIZ as a regular occurrence that was not considered a threat, adding that the five planes had not crossed into U.S. or Canadian airspace, according to CBS News.
Alaska’s ADIZ is the point at which American and Canadian jurisdiction ends and is a “defined stretch of international airspace that requires the ready identification of all aircraft in the interest of national security,” NORAD said…