This is CNN Breaking News.

And welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. We start with breaking news in our world lead, the war in Iran.

The Pentagon confirming that approximately 140 U.S. service members have been wounded since the start of the U.S. war in Iran.

Eight of them have been seriously wounded, we're told, and that's in addition, of course, to the seven U.S. war on Iran, eight of them have been seriously wounded, we're told,

and that's in addition, of course, to the seven U.S. service members who've been killed.

We should note that the Trump administration did not proactively announce this sad news.

Reporters have been asking for a while to find out about the WIA wounded in action.

We only found out the number after Reuters reported the number of wounded from sources.

Then the White House was asked about the Reuters report.

The White House deferred to the Pentagon and only then did the Pentagon acknowledge these numbers.

All of these injuries and deaths coming in a matter of 11 days in a war that as of now has no clear timeline or end date.

Yesterday before markets closed, President Trump said the war could be over soon and was very complete.

Then he walked it back in a news conference after markets closed.

Today, other Trump administration officials are also reluctant to give it clear timeline. Here's White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt.

The U.S. military's initial timeline was about four to six weeks to achieve the full

objectives of Operation Epic Fury.

But ultimately, the operations will end when the commander-in-chief determines the military

objectives have been met, fully realized,

and that Iran is in a position of complete and unconditional surrender, whether they say it or not.

Hmm, whether they say it or not. Here's Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth.

The president has set a very specific mission to accomplish, and our job is to unrelentingly deliver that.

Now, he gets to control the throttle.

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