The US and Iran traded new strikes on Saturday night after two US service members were killed in Jordan, intensifying the US and Iran strikes now running for eight straight nights. US military officials said American forces hit Iranian coastal surveillance and air defence sites, while Iranian state media said a location on Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz was struck.
US Central Command said its forces targeted Iranian military capabilities and also went after Iran's Revolutionary Guards, which it said were responsible for the attack that killed the two American troops in Jordan on Friday. Centcom said another US service member remains missing. In a separate statement, it said the latest strikes were meant to reduce Iran's ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and to punish IRGC forces that had launched attacks on American personnel in Jordan.
Iran answered by saying its army carried out drone attacks on two US bases in Kuwait, according to state media. The IRGC-linked Tasnim news agency said the attacks used kamikaze drones against a US military depot at Camp Udairi and another site at Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait. The US and Iranian accounts could not be independently verified from the source material.
