The US military says it’s launching strikes on Iranian targets in response to Tehran’s attack on American forces a day earlier.
US Central Command said the strikes are “a powerful response to yesterday’s attempted Iranian attack” and that they began Wednesday evening, in a post on social media.
It’s a further escalation after a period of calm, with the U.S. saying it had intercepted strikes from Iran a day earlier and carried out separate strikes alongside Saudi Arabia on Tehran-backed militias in neighboring Iraq.
President Donald Trump had vowed to retaliate after Iran targeted a base in Jordan that hosts U.S. troops.
