NPR News: 07-16-2026 3AM EDT

Giles Snyder· Host0:00

Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. President Trump claimed Wednesday that Iran will be defeated soon.

Donald Trump· Soundbite0:08

They want to settle so badly. They don't like what we're doing, and they do want to settle. We'll find out whether or not we settle with them or we just finish it off.

Giles Snyder· Host0:15

Trump speaking at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, amid the back and forth strikes this week between the US and Iran. Separately, a lawyer for an Iranian American who's been allowed to leave Iran after a year and a half is giving Trump credit for her release. Fifty-three-year-old Dana Khorrami had been accused but never charged of espionage. Ukraine's tech-savvy defense minister is stepping down. NPR's Joanna Kakissis reports from Kyiv on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's latest government reshuffle.

Joanna Kakissis0:49

Mykhailo Fedorov is thirty-five, a reform-minded innovator. He took over the Defense Ministry just six months ago. Announcing his departure on social media, Fedorov listed more than 20 accomplishments, including the successful drone strike campaign against Russian logistics in occupied Crimea. Ihor Fedirko, who leads the Ukrainian Council of Defense Industry, told NPR that he is sorry to see Fedorov go.

Ihor Fedirko· Soundbite1:16

One of the faces of the modern and technological war, it's Mykhailo Fedorov.

Joanna Kakissis1:22

Lawmakers from Zelenskyy's Servant of the People Party told NPR that Fedorov was removed in part because he clashed with Ukraine's