US-Iran conflict LIVE: Plume of black smoke and flames billowing over the town of Mangaf, south of Kuwait City. Kuwait accused Iran on July 18 of targeting civilian sites and vital infrastructure in the country, after reporting attacks on an oil facility and a power and water plant.
US-Iran war LIVE: Tensions in the Middle East further escalated on Saturday after two US soldiers were killed, and four others injured, in Iranian fire in Jordan. Washington has not yet identified the soldiers killed and injured in the attack. Following this, the US military said that it carried out new airstrikes against Iran on Sunday to “swiftly punish” the country’s Revolutionary Guard for the casualties caused during attack in Jordan.
The strikes were designed to further degrade Iran’s ability to restrict the traffic of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, US Central Command said. The waterway accounted for roughly 20% of global oil supplies before the war.
Since the war began, 16 US service members have been killed and over 430 wounded.
Strikes reported in southern Iran
An area near Sirik, on the Strait of Hormuz, was targeted around 1:30 a.m. local time, according to Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency, which cited local authorities in southern Hormozgan province.
A location near Hajiabad, in the same province, was also targeted, and explosions were heard in Bandar Abbas, according to IRNA. An area near Qeshm Island, inside the strait, was also targeted, according to Iran’s state-run broadcaster, IRIB.
In neighboring Iraq, a base of the Kurdistan Freedom Party, an Iranian Kurdish dissident group, near Irbil was struck by a drone early Sunday, wounding eight of its members, according to Rebaz Sharifi, a military official with the group.
Residents of Irbil, the capital of Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region, also heard explosions from air defenses early Sunday.
Irbil has been targeted by drone attacks multiple times over the past four days, which coincided with a visit by new Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi to Washington last week and an ongoing escalation between the U.S. and Iran.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but in the past both Iran and Iran-backed Iraqi militias have launched attacks in the Kurdish region, where both U.S. troops and armed Kurdish Iranian dissident groups are present.
The strikes were designed to further degrade Iran’s ability to restrict the traffic of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, US Central Command said. The waterway accounted for roughly 20% of global oil supplies before the war.
Since the war began, 16 US service members have been killed and over 430 wounded.
Strikes reported in southern Iran
An area near Sirik, on the Strait of Hormuz, was targeted around 1:30 a.m. local time, according to Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency, which cited local authorities in southern Hormozgan province.
A location near Hajiabad, in the same province, was also targeted, and explosions were heard in Bandar Abbas, according to IRNA. An area near Qeshm Island, inside the strait, was also targeted, according to Iran’s state-run broadcaster, IRIB.
In neighboring Iraq, a base of the Kurdistan Freedom Party, an Iranian Kurdish dissident group, near Irbil was struck by a drone early Sunday, wounding eight of its members, according to Rebaz Sharifi, a military official with the group.
Residents of Irbil, the capital of Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region, also heard explosions from air defenses early Sunday.
Irbil has been targeted by drone attacks multiple times over the past four days, which coincided with a visit by new Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi to Washington last week and an ongoing escalation between the U.S. and Iran.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but in the past both Iran and Iran-backed Iraqi militias have launched attacks in the Kurdish region, where both U.S. troops and armed Kurdish Iranian dissident groups are present.
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Jul 19, 2026, 07:35:18 IST
US-Iran war LIVE: Strikes near Sirik
US-Iran war LIVE: An area near Sirik, on the Strait of Hormuz, was targeted around 1:30 a.m. local time, according to Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency, which cited local authorities in southern Hormozgan province.
Jul 19, 2026, 07:34:22 IST
US-Iran war LIVE: Iran threatens ‘unforgettable lessons’, as two US troops killed
US-Iran war LIVE: Iran’s supreme leader vowed to teach the United States “unforgettable lessons” on Saturday, as Washington reported its first military deaths since renewing its hostilities with the Islamic republic.
A month after the foes signed a now-abandoned preliminary deal aimed at ending their war, Tehran struck infrastructure around the Gulf in retaliation for a week of intensifying US attacks, which Iran said had hit an airport, a railway station and bridges.
Iran hit an oil facility in Kuwait as well as a power and water plant, authorities in the Gulf state said, while in Bahrain the army said air defences repelled a wave of Iranian attacks.
Tehran also launched fresh strikes in Jordan, where the US military’s Central Command said two service members were killed on Friday as they “defended against Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks”. It said another service member was still missing in action.
via AP
Jul 19, 2026, 07:32:55 IST
US-Iran war LIVE: ‘Wouldn’t waste a single second fleeing, says Iranian : lawmaker in warning to US
US-Iran war LIVE: The head of the National Security Commission of the Iranian Parliament, Ebrahim Azizi has issued a fresh warning to the United States, saying American troops would “not waste a single second fleeing” if they fully understood the implications of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei’s recent remarks about “unforgettable lessons”.
In a post on X on Saturday (local time) , Azizi referred to Khamenei’s warning to the US amid escalating tensions between Tehran and Washington.
“If US troops truly understood what our wise Supreme Leader meant by ‘unforgettable lessons’, they wouldn’t waste a single second fleeing,” Azizi wrote.
Jul 19, 2026, 07:31:33 IST
US-Iran war LIVE: Khamenei calls Trump’s signature ‘worthless’, warns of ‘unforgettable lessons’ if US strikes continue
US-Iran war LIVE: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei on Saturday (local time) launched a scathing attack on the United States, calling it the “Great Satan” and declaring that the signature of US President Donald Trump on the 14-point memorandum of understanding was “utterly worthless”.
Khamenei also warned that Iran and its “Resistance Front” have “unforgettable lessons” in store if Washington continues its military strikes on the Islamic Republic.
In a message addressed to the Iranian nation, Khamenei accused the United States of repeatedly violating agreements with Iran, saying the breaches had once again exposed Washington’s “dishonesty, irrationality, unreliability, and malicious nature.”
“The repeated breaches of the agreement by the Great Satan [the US] regarding the MOU signed by the Presidents of Iran and the US have once again laid bare a fundamental truth: the signature of the US President is utterly worthless and devoid of credibility. Coercion, totalitarianism, and brutality are inseparable components of the US creed and doctrine,” Khamenei said.
The Iranian leader further alleged that the US had revealed its “true, unmasked face” through its actions, describing them as another example of “criminality and broken promises”.
Referring to the ongoing tensions with Washington, Khamenei warned that any further escalation by the United States would come at a high cost.
“Now that the American enemy is seeking to escalate the conflict, thereby incurring even heavier costs and further humiliation, it should know that the noble nation of Iran and the Resistance Front have unforgettable lessons in store for it,” he said.
Jul 19, 2026, 07:30:24 IST
US-Iran war LIVE: No longer bound by 14-point MoU after US military action, says Iran official
US-Iran war LIVE: Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said that Tehran no longer considers itself committed to implementing the 14-point Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the US, signed last month, after the United States violated its obligations under the agreement by escalating its military strike on the Islamic Republic.
According to a statement carried by Iranian state media, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), Baghaei said that the MoU was based on reciprocal commitments and that Washington’s actions had altered Iran’s position on the agreement.
“The Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding was based on a commitment for a commitment, and with the US’s action to violate its commitments, Iran no longer considers itself committed to implementing it,” Baghaei said.
The Iranian spokesperson further stated that Tehran’s retaliatory military actions were limited to self-defence and targeted only US military assets.
“We have only defended ourselves and have not attacked any targets other than US military bases and military equipment,” he said.
Baghaei further stated that the US and Israel’s strikes targeting civilian areas during their operations amounted to war crimes.
“The US and the Zionist regime have mainly targeted civilian centres and ordinary people in their attacks, which is a clear example of a war crime,” he added.
via ANI
Jul 19, 2026, 07:26:42 IST
US-Iran war LIVE: Trump says soldiers’ deaths a ‘very sad thing’
US-Iran war LIVE: US President Donald Trump on Saturday (local time) described the deaths of two American service members killed in Jordan following Iranian strikes as a “very sad thing”.
Speaking to NewsNation after US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced the death of the two service members in Jordan following Iranian strikes on the US military assets at the Al-Azraq Air Base, Trump expressed his condolences over the loss and said the incident represented the risks faced by those serving the country.
“Very sad, it’s a very sad thing,” Trump told NewsNation.
“We hate to see it happen. It’s in service to our country,” he added, while reiterating that Iran must not be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon.
Jul 19, 2026, 07:25:33 IST
US-Iran war LIVE: Iran reports US attack near Hajiabad city
US-Iran war LIVE: Iranian media on Sunday morning said that the US military targeted area near the city of Hajiabad.
Jul 19, 2026, 07:23:19 IST
US-Iran war LIVE: US launches airstrikes to ‘swiftly punish’ Iran over soldiers’ killings
US-Iran war LIVE: Following the killing of two soldiers, the US military said that it carried out new airstrikes against Iran on Sunday to “swiftly punish” the country’s Revolutionary Guard for the casualties caused during attack in Jordan.
The strikes were designed to further degrade Iran’s ability to restrict the traffic of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, US Central Command said. The waterway accounted for roughly 20% of global oil supplies before the war.
Since the war began, 16 US service members have been killed and over 430 wounded.
Jul 19, 2026, 07:21:27 IST
US-Iran war LIVE: Two US soldiers killed in Iran fire
US-Iran war LIVE: Tensions in the Middle East further escalated on Saturday after two US soldiers were killed, and four others injured, in Iranian fire in Jordan. Washington has not yet identified the soldiers killed and injured in the attack.