The US and Iran have exchanged strikes across the Middle East for a second consecutive day, further straining an already shaky ceasefire agreed between the two countries in April, the BBC reports.
US Central Command (Centcom) said it had completed a wave of “self-defense strikes” targeting military, surveillance and radar sites in southern Iran.
The attack came hours after President Donald Trump vowed US forces would hit Iran “hard”, and that Tehran had taken “too long to make a deal” to permanently end the war.
In response, Iran launched a round of strikes targeting US military assets in countries across the region.
US military bases in Bahrain and Kuwait came under Iranian fire for a second day in a row, while Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it fired ballistic missiles at a US command centre in Jordan, according to Iranian state media.
The IRGC said it had destroyed “a large number” of US fighter jets and “facilities” after firing 12 ballistic missiles at the Muwaffaq Salti Airbase in Jordan, although the claims have not been independently verified.
