New Delhi, July 24 -- how does it end, and on whose terms. The Hill reported that GOP members pressed Hegseth on the conflict's endgame following the twelfth consecutive night of US airstrikes against Iranian military targets.

The questions represent an uncomfortable shift within a party that spent the spring rallying around the administration's decision to escalate against Iran. Senate Republicans voted in March to extend emergency war powers authorization and in May to approve supplemental military spending that kept the air campaign funded through the summer. Thursday's hearing, conducted behind closed doors before the public airing of concerns reported by The Hill, suggests that the unanimity of the early months has given way to some...