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The US military said it struck dozens of Islamic Revolutionary Guard targets in Iran, including military command centres and drone facilities, in a two-hour operation launched after Tehran fired ballistic missiles at US forces in the Middle East.
“The strikes aimed to further diminish threats posed by Iran and its proxies to American forces, commercial shipping, and neighbouring Gulf countries,” US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement on Wednesday.
Iran’s state media reported that ‌three people were killed in US strikes on Qeshm Island.
Jordan’s armed forces said on Thursday that they had thwarted an Iranian attempt to target the kingdom, intercepting five missiles.
The US strikes came after Iran confirmed on Wednesday that it had fired ballistic missiles at US troops in Jordan. CENTCOM said all of the missiles were intercepted. US bases in Jordan have lately become primary Iranian targets.
Earlier on Wednesday, US and Saudi forces launched strikes against Iran-aligned groups in eastern Iraq, in retaliation for drone attacks on Saudi oil targets launched from Iraq. The joint attack marked the first time Riyadh has publicly joined strikes alongside Washington.

A drone caused the fire that engulfed two gas vessels at Egypt’s Mediterranean port of Damietta, the Egyptian cabinet said on Thursday, confirming that the blaze which erupted a day earlier was the result of an attack rather than an accident.
No party has claimed responsibility for the incident which happened not far from the Suez ‌Canal that has become the last safe evacuation route for Saudi oil to global markets.
Authorities were continuing their investigations and taking necessary measures to protect Egypt’s national security, the cabinet added.
British maritime security firm Ambrey said on Wednesday that a drone had hit a US-owned gas storage tanker at the port, in an initial assessment that raised concerns about a further spread of conflict across the Middle East.
Trading sources familiar with the incident said the drone hit US-owned gas storage tanker Energos Winter, causing a fire that spread to another vessel, Gaslog Salem.
The Energos Winter was reportedly struck on ⁠its starboard side, causing a fire that was extinguished, British maritime risk management group Vanguard said.
Egypt’s petroleum ministry said in a statement on Wednesday that the fires at ‌the port were dealt with immediately by firefighting and security teams and caused no injuries or fatalities. Petroleum Minister Karim Badawi went to the site to oversee response efforts, it said.
The latest strikes in Iraq and Egypt threatened ‌to draw more Middle Eastern countries into the conflict, after the Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen declared a naval blockade last week on Saudi Arabia.
The war began in February, when the US and Israel launched a bombing campaign in Iran that Trump said would last only a few weeks. A temporary ceasefire agreement in June collapsed ‌amid renewed fighting over the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial waterway that Iran says it now controls.
Trump said he would hit Iran hard for firing missiles at US forces, but ⁠that Washington was also still seeking a ⁠peace deal to end a conflict that has roiled global energy and finance markets with the choking of the Strait of Hormuz.
The waterway – which carried a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas before the war on Iran – lies between Oman and Iran, linking ‌the Gulf north of it with the Gulf of Oman to the south and the Arabian Sea beyond.

The strait has become the main hurdle in peace talks and a flashpoint for repeated escalations in the conflict.
Iran said on Wednesday that it struck three tankers attempting ‌to transit ‌through the strait along an unauthorised route and that it controls the strait.
Oman has presented Iran with a plan backed by Gulf states to manage the Strait of Hormuz, including collecting voluntary fees for using ‌it, a Gulf source and a Western diplomat told Reuters on Tuesday. But Iran has rejected the Omani proposal.
Oil prices shot up on Wednesday in one of the sharpest spikes of the five-month war. Brent ⁠crude futures rose more than 8 per cent to push the benchmark well above US$90 a barrel, reversing much of a plunge earlier this week when Trump had unexpectedly halted US strikes. On Thursday prices retreated slightly.
Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces, powerful Iran-backed paramilitary groups incorporated into the Iraqi security forces, said at least 20 members were killed and 32 wounded in US-Saudi strikes targeting several bases across Iraq.
Iraqi men shouted “Death to America!” as they carried the bodies of slain fighters in body bags.

The Iraqi presidency denounced the strikes on the paramilitaries as “an unacceptable attack and ‌a flagrant violation of Iraq’s sovereignty”, while also calling ‌for a halt to attacks by armed groups against Iraq’s neighbours.
Though Iran denies its forces have directed strikes from Iraqi territory, Iranian newspaper Hamshahri reported that four of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards advisers had been killed in the strikes on Iraq.
After the joint attacks, Saudi Arabia’s defence minister met US Vice-President J.D. Vance in Washington on Wednesday to urge the Trump administration not to escalate the conflict further by attacking Yemen’s Houthis and carrying out more strikes against Iran-aligned militias in Iraq, two sources told Reuters.
One of the sources added that such escalation would open the door to “major unknown risks”. The White House and Saudi embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


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Pentagon retaliates following attempted attacks targeting American forces while fighting draws in Tehran-backed proxies


Pentagon retaliates following attempted attacks targeting American forces while fighting draws in Tehran-backed proxies.


US launches more strikes on Iran as conflict spreads across region

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Pentagon retaliates following attempted attacks targeting American forces while fighting draws in Tehran-backed proxies