US military striking targets in Iran after attempted attacks on shipping
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USS Abraham Lincoln seen off Thai port after months at sea
The USS Abraham Lincoln, the US aircraft carrier at the centre of a political row over conditions on board after months at sea, arrived off a Thai port Wednesday, AFP reporters saw.
The huge nuclear-powered ship was spotted ahead of its expected entry into Laem Chabang port near Pattaya, south of Bangkok, ahead of the first visit on land for its 5,000 crew since November.
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Iran Guards say struck US bases in Erbil with missiles, drones: state media
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US military attacked two Iranian government tankers on Tuesday, Axios reports
The US military attacked two Iranian government tankers as part of the round of strikes that took place on Tuesday, Axios reported, citing US officials.
02/09/2026 - 01:54
Fraser Jackson has the latest from Washington DC
02/09/2026 - 01:18
Air alert sirens sound in Bahrain: AFP journalists
Air alert sirens rang out early Wednesday in Bahrain, AFP journalists said, as the United States and Iran engaged in tit-for-tat strikes.
Authorities in Bahrain called on residents to remain calm and head to the nearest safe place, the interior ministry said on X.
02/09/2026 - 00:14
US strikes Iran in latest tit-for-tat attacks
US forces launched fresh attacks on Iran Tuesday, including one that the Iranian Red Crescent said left four people dead at a wedding celebration, with Tehran vowing "severe punishment" for the strikes.
Washington hit Iranian targets on Sunday in its first known strikes in several weeks, after which Tehran's forces targeted US troops in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, and projectiles struck two oil tankers in unclaimed attacks.
More US strikes came on Tuesday, with Iranian state television reporting that explosions were heard in the country's south along the strategic Strait of Hormuz waterway and on an island in the Gulf, and that US forces hit an airport in the southern province of Kerman.
The Iranian Red Crescent said shrapnel from a US missile attack hit a home where a wedding celebration was taking place in the city of Kuhestak, killing four people, including a child, and wounding more than 50.
02/09/2026 - 00:12
Iran's Revolutionary Guards claim missile attack on US base in Jordan: media
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said early Wednesday that they had carried out a ballistic missile attack on a US base in Jordan, the Iranian news outlet Tasnim reported.
The Guards "launched an intense ballistic missile attack on the US Marine Corps base in Jordan, known as Camp Titin," they said in a statement cited by Tasnim.
The training camp is located on the Gulf of Aqaba, near the borders with Israel and Saudi Arabia.
01/09/2026 - 22:28
Alarm sirens activated in Jordan, state TV says
Alarm sirens have been activated in Jordan's Mafraq and Aqaba governorates, state TV reported on Tuesday, as Iran launched attacks against US interests and bases in the region in retaliation to its strikes on Iran.
01/09/2026 - 22:17
Iran Red Crescent says four killed, 50 wounded at wedding by US attack
The Iranian Red Crescent said on Tuesday that four people including a child were killed and over 50 people were wounded by a US attack while attending a wedding in the south.
"Following a US missile attack, shrapnel hit a residential home in the city of Kuhestak, in Sirik county of Hormozgan province, where a wedding celebration was taking place," the Red Crescent said in a post on X.
"More than 50 people were injured and four people, including a young child, were martyred."
A video shared by an Iranian government account showed extensive debris and damage at what it said was the site of the wedding in Sirik following the US strike, with people heard screaming in the background.
01/09/2026 - 21:18
Iran state TV says casualties at wedding ceremony from US attack on south
Iranian state television reported on Tuesday that several people who were attending a wedding ceremony were wounded by a US attack in the country's south.
"A number of residents were wounded in the attack while attending a wedding ceremony," state television reported, adding that the US attack hit a "residential area" in Bandar Kuhestak in Sirik county.
01/09/2026 - 20:41
Army launches 'decisive operation' against US targets, Iran media says
Iranian media reported that the country's military had launched a "decisive operation" against US targets in the region on Tuesday, as Washington carried out a fresh round of strikes.
The Tasnim news agency said a "decisive operation by Iran's armed forces in response to the US enemy has begun. The US bases and interests in the region are being targeted by Iranian missiles and drones."
01/09/2026 - 20:26
US targeted airport in south, Iran state TV reports
The United States struck an airport in the southern Iranian province of Kerman on Tuesday, state television reported, as Washington announced a fresh wave of attacks.
"Minutes ago, the enemy US attack targeted Jiroft airport," state television said, after reporting several strikes along the coast of the Strait of Hormuz and on Iranian islands in the Gulf.
01/09/2026 - 20:24
Trump says US gave Iran many chances, dismisses value of any deal, reports Fox News
US President Donald Trump told Fox News in an interview on Tuesday that he had given Iran a lot of chances and dismissed the value of any deal with Tehran.
"I think an agreement with them isn't worth the paper it's written on. We gave them a lot of chances," Fox News quoted him as saying.
01/09/2026 - 20:22
Fresh explosions heard in Iran along Hormuz, on Gulf island: state TV
Fresh explosions were heard on Tuesday in southern Iran along the strategic Strait of Hormuz as well as on an island in the Gulf, state television reported, as the United States carried out strikes in the area.
"Explosions were heard again in Bandar Abbas city and Qeshm island," state TV said, adding that blasts were also heard on Lavan island, home to one of Iran's oil export terminals in the Gulf.
01/09/2026 - 20:21
Iran Guards say US will 'regret' renewed attacks
Iran's Revolutionary Guards vowed on Tuesday to make the United States "regret" fresh attacks around the Strait of Hormuz, even as US President Donald Trump warned Tehran against striking back.
"Severe punishment awaits the aggressors; the United States will regret its new attacks," said Guards spokesman Hossein Mohebi in a post on X, after explosions were heard in multiple areas along and east of Hormuz.
01/09/2026 - 20:19
Trump warns of 'much harder' action if Iran retaliates to strikes
President Donald Trump warned Iran on Tuesday not to retaliate against the latest US strikes, saying Tehran faced "much harder and higher" attacks if it hits back.
Trump said Tuesday's US attacks near the Strait of Hormuz were in response to Iran laying mines and shooting missiles at an American base in Jordan.
"If the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level, but it will not be the biggest attack of them all, that is waiting in the wings and, when it is over, there will be very little left of the Islamic Republic of Iran!" Trump said on his Truth Social network.
01/09/2026 - 19:15
Iran state media says four projectiles hit cities east of Hormuz Strait
Iranian state media said on Tuesday that four projectiles hit parts of the southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan province, east of the Strait of Hormuz.
"Four projectiles had hit areas within the counties of Chabahar and Konarak," said the official IRNA news agency, citing provincial official Ali Khalilabadi, without specifying whether there was any damage.
01/09/2026 - 19:02
Lack of access to Iran nuclear sites must be addressed with 'utmost urgency': IAEA report seen by AFP
The UN nuclear agency said in a confidential report seen by AFP on Tuesday that the lack of access to key nuclear sites in Iran "needs to be addressed with the utmost urgency".
"The agency's lack of information about this nuclear material and access to facilities to verify it is a matter of proliferation concern," the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in the report.
01/09/2026 - 18:50
US military says it's hitting new targets in Iran as hostilities flare again
The US military says it’s striking targets in Iran as hostilities flare again after a month without military action.
US Central Command said Tuesday that the strikes “follow recent attempted attacks by the IRGC against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against American service members deployed to the region".
On Sunday, the US military said it struck rocket launchers on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran responded by launching missiles at US sites in Jordan, which were intercepted, while United Arab Emirates said it stopped an Iranian drone over its waters.
President Donald Trump acknowledged Monday that more strikes might be necessary.
01/09/2026 - 18:38
Explosions heard in Iran's Bandar Abbas, other areas, state media says
Explosions were heard late on Tuesday in the Iranian port cities of Bandar Abbas and Sirik and on Qeshm island, according to Iranian media.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)