President Trump confirmed Sunday that the pilots of B-2 bombers who carried out the U.S. military strikes in Iran have safely returned to the U.S.

This was a highly classified mission with very few people in Washington knowing the timing or nature of this plan,” Caine said. Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning.

Hammer," the top-secret U.S. precision attack on Iran's nuclear facilities launched overnight was the largest strike using B2 bombers in history and it was the longest flight involving the fleet since 2001,

A group of American B-2 bombers — the only jets capable of deploying 30,000-pound bunker-buster munitions with a shot at breaching the mountains shrouding Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility — flew west across the Pacific Ocean.