The action was limited, the officials said, with no immediate plans to escalate. The strikes come on the eve of the midterm elections.
NYTimes – US The United States reportedly struck Iran's Qeshm Island on Monday, even as President Donald Trump signalled progress in negotiations with Tehran to end the eight-month-old conflict. The reported attack was the latest in a series of limited strikes Washington has secretly carried out in recent weeks.
The United States reportedly struck Iran's Qeshm Island on Monday, even as President Donald Trump signalled progress in negotiations with Tehran to end the eight-month-old conflict. The reported attack was the latest in a series of limited strikes Washington has secretly carried out in recent weeks.
NYTimes – US Monday's U.S. airstrikes on Qeshm Island were in response to an Iranian attack on a U.S. aircraft, said one official.
BBC News – World US officials described the attacks on Qeshm Island as limited and defensive, according to CBS, the BBC's US partner.
Iranian state media reported the sound of explosions on the island in the strait of Hormuz, coming on the eve of crucial US midterms The US launched limited strikes on Iran’s Qeshm Island late on Monday, according to reports in US media, hours after US vice-president JD Vance said he was optimistic diplomatic efforts to end the war were moving in the right direction. The strikes were reported as being “defensive”…
Sky News – World The US military has carried out "limited strikes" on Qeshm Island in Iran - hours before the midterms are due to take place.
Several explosions heard in Qeshm Island and Bandar Lengeh as US media say the US military had carried out the strikes.
BBC News – UK British adventurer Karl Bushby returns to his mother’s home in Hull after completing a 28-year, 50,000-kilometre journey from Chile.
BBC News – World Officials say at least nine 3,000kg aerial bombs hit a southern Ukrainian village in what the president called an "utterly horrific" attack.
The Trump administration had appealed to the Supreme Court over claims that a list of more than 20,000 ballots in California include non-US citizens.
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