Trump boasts of killing Iran leaders as missiles and drones pound region

President Donald Trump derided Iran’s leaders as “deranged scumbags” and said it was his great honor to kill them as the war in the Middle East approached the two-week mark on Friday with heavy exchanges of drone and missile strikes across the region.

The conflict, which began with joint Israeli-U.S. strikes on Iran at the end of February, has killed more than 2,000 people, disrupted the lives of millions of others and shaken energy and financial markets across the globe.

In a post on social media late on Friday...