New Delhi, April 8 -- United States and Iran have agreed to a two-week ceasefire, an agreement that was struck at the eleventh hour before the '8pm deadline' that US President Donald Trump set over the weekend. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine lay out the next phase of the operation.

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US forces hit over 13,000 targets in Iran, according to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine .

He says around 80% of Iran's air defence systems destroyed, and more than 90% of Iran's conventional navy fleet wiped out.

Caine says nearly 90% of Iran's weapons factories destroyed, adds, "It will take year...