Washington, July 21 (IANS) The US military has launched a new round of strikes against Iran, according to the US Central Command (CENTCOM), as tensions between the two countries continue to escalate.In a post on X, CENTCOM said: “Today at 4 p.m. ET, U.S. forces began a new round of strikes against Iran at the Commander in Chief’s direction. The strikes are designed to further degrade Iranian military capabilities used to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.”Earlier, CENTCOM sa…
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Tehran, July 20 (IANS) Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Monday that its naval forces had delivered ‘heavy blows’ to US assets and facilities in Bahrain and Kuwait through three rounds of missile and drone attacks, in retaliation for US attacks on Iranian provinces.In a statement on its official news outlet Sepah News, the IRGC said it “destroyed” drone maintenance and repair hangars used by US units at Al-Sakhir Air Base in Bahrain in the first round of the strikes.In …
Tehran, July 20 (IANS) Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Monday that its forces earlier in the day launched retaliatory missile and drone strikes against US assets and facilities in Jordan and Kuwait.In statements published on its official news outlet Sepah News, the IRGC said it struck with ballistic missiles the US Boeing C-17 Globemaster III and Boeing P-8 Poseidon aircraft at an airport in Jordan’s port city of Aqaba, and heavily damaged a number of them.It added that i…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday refused to interfere with the Delhi High Court judgment setting aside the technical evaluation process for outsourcing Consular, Passport and Visa (CPV) services at Indian Missions in Abu Dhabi (UAE), Kuwait, Singapore and Canberra (Australia), while directing the Union Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to complete the fresh tender process within three months.A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and…
Tehran, July 20 (IANS) Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Monday that it had attacked a US early-warning radar system and several military facilities in Kuwait’s Ali Al Salem Air Base in retaliatory action against Washington, local media reported. In a statement on Monday, the IRGC said that the US early-warning radar system was “completely destroyed” in a drone strike. It said that a warehouse sheltering aviation equipments, spare parts and drone hangar at Ali Al Salem…
Washington, July 20 (IANS) A US service member was killed in action in northern Iraq during a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian one-way attack drone, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said.Taking to social media platform X, CENTCOM on Sunday said, a second service member was wounded and continues to receive medical treatment for a minor injury.Separately, US military personnel found unidentified remains on Sunday after CENTCOM announced on Saturday the deaths of t…
Cairo, July 20 (IANS) Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain reported fresh Iranian attacks as renewed US-Iran hostilities spilled into neighbouring countries, prompting calls for de-escalation across the Middle East.Jordan’s air defenses intercepted three missiles launched from Iran toward Jordanian territory, while a fourth fell in a remote area in southern Jordan without causing casualties or material damage, state broadcaster Jordan Radio and Television Corporation said on X.The missiles were aimed at U…
Cairo, July 19 (IANS) The outskirts of Abadan in southwestern Iran’s Khuzestan province were targeted in a US missile attack on Sunday, which resulted in no casualties, the semi-official Tasnim news agency said on X, citing a provincial official.Abadan, home to Iran’s oldest oil refinery and bordering Iraq, was targeted in US strikes earlier this week.Meanwhile, Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain reported on Sunday fresh Iranian aerial attacks targeting their territories, which also triggered US refuell…
Washington/Tehran, July 19 (IANS) US forces have completed another round of strikes against Iran, with more than 50,000 US troops in the Middle East remaining “highly vigilant,” US Central Command (CENTCOM) said.”During the eighth consecutive night of US strikes, CENTCOM forces successfully hit Iranian military coastal surveillance and air defence facilities, maritime capabilities, and missile and drone storage sites to continue degrading Iranian military capabilities,” CENTCOM said in a post on…
Tehran, July 19 (IANS) A construction site of the Darkhovin nuclear power plant in southwestern Iran’s Khuzestan province was attacked by US projectiles on Sunday, the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) said.In a statement published on its official website, the AEOI said the attack took place at 3:39 a.m. local time (2409 GMT), calling it “an aggressive and brutal action” that violates Iran’s national sovereignty and international law, Xinhua News Agency reported.It did not say if there w…