Jul 13, 2026 09:43 AM IST Recap: Latest developments in the US-Iran conflict Washington carried out a large-scale assault on dozens of Iranian military sites, then followed it with additional waves of strikes into Monday morning, targeting air-defence systems, coastal radar sites, missile and drone capabilities, and small boats.
Iran's IRGC and army launched a multi-phase "eye-for-an-eye" response, hitting US-linked bases in Kuwait (Camp Arifjan, Ali Al-Salem, Ahmad Al-Jaber) and Bahrain (Sheikh Isa, Juffair), and striking Prince Hassan air base in Jordan.
Iran's navy disabled two "violating" ships in the strait and declared it "closed until further notice," after an earlier Iranian attack set a container ship ablaze and left a crew member missing turning the waterway, once carrier of a fifth of the world's oil and gas trade, into the central threat to the fragile US-Iran interim deal.
Bahrain sounded missile sirens twice, Kuwait's air defences engaged "hostile aerial targets," and explosions were reported in Bandar Abbas and elsewhere in Iran, with Iranian state media confirming at least one death.
US Central Command announced its latest wave of strikes had concluded and said American forces remain postured to keep shipping lanes open, even as Iran insisted its retaliatory operation was still ongoing and warned against further US involvement in the strait.
