The United States and Iran exchanged fire for another consecutive night, with American forces completing an eighth straight night of strikes on Iranian territory and Iran firing back at US military positions across the Gulf, as President Donald Trump warned the conflict could expand further if Tehran does not halt its attacks.
CENTCOM said the latest round of American strikes targeted dozens of Iranian military sites, including coastal surveillance and air defense installations, military logistics infrastructure, and maritime capabilities, part of a campaign officials describe as an effort to systematically degrade Iran's military capabilities. Strikes early Friday hit an airport, a railway station, and two bridges inside Iran, with Iranian state media reporting casualties at some of the targeted sites. More than 50,000 American troops are currently deployed across the Middle East as part of the broader posture surrounding the conflict.
Iran responded with renewed missile and drone launches toward American positions in the Gulf, part of a pattern that has repeatedly targeted US-linked bases in Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar over the past week. American officials say Jordan in particular has now been struck four separate times in five days, with dozens of US service members wounded in the barrage. CENTCOM confirmed Saturday that two American service members were killed and a third is missing in action after Friday's Iranian missile attack on US forces in Jordan, the first American military deaths of the renewed conflict, while four additional troops were wounded and later discharged from Jordanian hospitals. More broadly, officials say more than 400 American service members have been wounded since the conflict began.
