Iran war live: US kills 8 people in sixth consecutive night of strikes

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Iranian authorities reported power cuts and an assault on a railway station in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, while Tehran declared that the Strait of Hormuz will not resume its pre-war normalcy.

The United States has conducted airstrikes in Iran for six consecutive nights, escalating regional tensions.

Published On 16 Jul 2026

• The United States has carried out major strikes on Iran for the sixth night in a row, killing at least eight people and wounding 20.
• Officials in southern Iran’s Bandar Abbas report that civilian infrastructure, including power facilities and a train station, has been hit.

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  Germany proposes replacing UN mission with EU forces in Lebanon

  German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has suggested replacing the soon-to-expire UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon with an EU-mandated force, he told Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland.

  “We should examine in the EU whether we can ensure that no security vacuum arises with a European mandate following the UNIFIL ⁠mission,” Wadephul said in an interview published today.

  The UNIFIL mission expires on December 31, 2026.

  An EU-mandated force could “create the ⁠conditions for the Israeli army to withdraw without Hezbollah returning with its terror,” the minister added.

• 6m ago

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  Mother killed, child critical after US attack on Bandar Abbas

  A woman was killed in the US strikes on southern Iran's Bandar Abbas, and her one-year-old child suffered critical shrapnel wounds.

  Iran’s Tasnim news agency reports that the US strike in the Tappeh Allah Akbar neighborhood of Bandar Abbas killed the mother and left eight others injured.

• 11m ago

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  Iran restricts trains from Bandar Abbas after US attacks

  Iran has been restricting passenger train departures from Bandar Abbas station due to the US attacks on a railway point in the Hormozgan region, the country’s Tasnim news agency reports.

  The Hormozgan Railways Administration has directed passengers to take an intercity bus to the Fin station and catch their trains there.

• 21m ago

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  Names and importance of some Iranian sites hit by US

  • Bandar Khamir Bridges, located in the Hormozgan province, is a key transportation route connecting local communities. Damage to such bridges can disrupt mobility, logistics and access between coastal areas and internal parts of the country.
  • Railway Infrastructure near Bandar Abbas is a critical logistics route linking the country’s main southern port gateway with inland transportation networks. It is also important for cargo movement, trade and supply chains.
  • Iranshahr Airport located in the Sistan and Baluchestan province is a major regional aviation facility, supporting transportation, emergency services and connectivity in southeastern Iran.
  • Chabahar Maritime Traffic Control Radar is a key aviation monitoring system responsible for airspace surveillance, flight coordination, maritime traffic and aviation safety in a strategically located coastal region.
  • Sirik located in the Hormozgan province is a strategically located coastal area near the Strait of Hormuz.
  • Qeshm Island, also in Hormozgan province, is strategically important and the largest island near the Strait of Hormuz with significance in maritime trade, commercial activity and overseeing the Strait of Hormuz.
  • Ahvaz in Khuzestan province is one of Iran’s most important industrial centres, with major significance due to its oil, energy and economic infrastructure.
  • Bushehr in Bushehr province is a key Persian Gulf coastal location with importance in maritime activity, energy infrastructure and regional connectivity.

• 31m ago

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  US attacks on civilian areas reveal its hypocrisy: Iran official

  Ebrahim Azizi, the head of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security Committee, says the US attacks in southern Iran on residential and civilian zones “reveal the hypocrisy of those who preach ‘human rights’”.

  “The proud South has always been Iran’s fortress of defence, and every Iranian’s heart beats there,” he said in a post on X.

  “To the enemies of this resistant and victorious nation: The Armed Forces will not let the blood of the innocent go [unavenged],” he added.

• 41m ago

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  Strikes kill 8 Iranian Kurdish fighters in Iraq

  An official from the Kurdistan Workers’ Association of Iran in Sulaymaniyah has announced that at least eight Iranian Kurdish fighters have been killed in an attack on Iraq, according to a report by the Rudaw Media Network.

  “Our headquarters in Zarkwezla, Sulaimaniyah Governorate, was targeted by six missiles and caught fire,” the official said and added that the attack resulted in “the martyrdom of eight Peshmerga fighters and injuries several others.”

  Idriss Kohlwazi from the Komala party told the AFP news agency that Iran was behind the attack.

  Various Iranian Kurdish groups, which share close ties with Iraqi Kurds, have long opposed Tehran from their bases in northern Iraq and along the Iraq-Iran border.

  In March, Iran had launched operations targeting Iranian and Iraqi Kurdish groups in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in neighbouring Iraq.

• 46m ago

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  IRGC says it targeted US jets in Jordan

  Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps say they have targeted US fighter jets stationed in Jordan, Iranian State TV reports.

  Earlier, the Jordanian army had said that it shot down three Iranian missiles targeting the country.

• 51m ago

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  What do we know about Iran’s attacks across the Gulf region?

  • Iran’s army has said it targeted US helicopters and reconnaissance aircraft at the Sakhir airbase in Bahrain, according to a report from the country’s semi official Tasnim news agency.
  • Qatar’s Interior Ministry has said that a child was injured by falling shrapnel as Qatari forces intercepted several air attacks from Iran.
  • Iran’s army has said it targeted US military deployment sites and logistical support centres in Kuwait with drones. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) also said it struck a US missile defence radar, several key weapons depots and two HIMARS surface-to-surface missile launchers in the country.
  • The IRGC said it has attacked a US special operations command centre at the al-Tanf military base in Syria, according to a Tasnim news agency report.
  • The IRGC has also claimed to have destroyed a US air control radar in Oman’s Ghanim region and a maritime control radar on rocks in the Strait of Hormuz, in waters dividing Iran and Oman.

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• 1h ago

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  Lebanese gov’t ‘taking country to very dangerous place’, says Hezbollah MP

  Ali Fayyad, a senior Hezbollah member of parliament in Lebanon, has attacked the Lebanese delegation negotiating with Israel, saying Beirut is continuing negotiations “as if nothing has happened”, referring to Israel’s occupation of southern Lebanon.

  “It seems clear that this authority has abandoned its people, and it is indifferent to their suffering and the extent of the crimes committed against them by the Israelis,” Fayyad said in a statement quoted by the country’s National News Agency.

  “The Lebanese authority seems determined to take the country to a very dangerous place, where it will not regain the land or restore sovereignty, and at the same time lose internal stability and the unity of the Lebanese,” said Fayyad.

• 1h ago

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  Closure of Bab al-Mandeb could have ‘tremendous impact’ on the global economy

  Reporting from Tehran, Iran

  So far, the Iranians have not confirmed that the Houthis will shut the Bab al-Mandeb Strait.

  However, we know there is a line of communication between the Houthis and Iranians. They are allies, and the Iranians are saying any decision regarding the strait is going to be made by the Houthis.

  But the Iranians are also saying that “if our critical infrastructure, civilian infrastructure, energy and power plants are attacked, then we are also going to respond in kind.” Iran and its non-state allies in the region are going to be more involved in that.

  In this equation, the role of the Houthis is critical, because, especially now that the Strait of Hormuz is closed, any closure of Bab al-Mandeb is going to have a tremendous impact on the global economy.

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  Bahrain says intercepted several Iranian air attacks

  Bahrain’s armed forces say its air defence systems have intercepted and destroyed “a number of hostile Iranian aerial attacks” today.

  “Iran has continued its aggressive approach by carrying out cowardly attacks targeting civilians in the Kingdom of Bahrain,” the military said in a statement.

  It also urged everyone to exercise caution, avoid approaching any strange or suspicious objects that may have resulted from the Iranian attack, and report them immediately.

  “The General Command stresses that the deliberate use of missiles and drones to target civilians and private property constitutes a blatant violation of international humanitarian law,” the statement further noted.

• 1h ago

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  Just three vessels crossed Strait of Hormuz amid closure

  Only three commodity vessels crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, the fewest daily transits since May, according to shipping data.

  Most ships halted or made U-turns after recent Iranian attacks on vessels and the resumption of a US blockade on Iran-related shipping.

  Miraan, a sanctioned product tanker carrying fuel oil, and Norita, a small vessel carrying liquefied petroleum gas, exited the strait on Thursday via the Iranian route but stopped at the Gulf of Oman, where the US blockade is, Kpler data showed as of 05:13 GMT on Friday.

  Arolia, a bunkering tanker laden with Iraqi fuel oil that is used to refuel vessels at sea, made a U-turn to head back into the Gulf hours after it exited earlier on Friday, LSEG data showed.

• 1h ago

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  Israel’s Knesset dissolves before October election

  Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, has voted 62-0 to approve a party financing bill that also includes a clause dissolving the legislature before the country’s October election.

  Following the vote, the Knesset entered recess and will not resume regular sittings until the newly elected parliament is sworn in, The Times of Israel reported.

• 1h ago

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  Death toll from overnight US air attacks on Iran rises to eight

  Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reports that the death toll from overnight US air attacks has risen to eight.

  The US military attacks on infrastructure across several provinces occurred late Thursday night and in the early hours of Friday morning, leaving 20 other people injured, it added.

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  UK arrests man for ‘assisting’ Iran’s intelligence service

  The UK police say a 39-year-old man has been charged with a National Security Act offence for assisting Iran’s intelligence service.

  London’s Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) arrested Vahid Aberi, a resident of Liverpool, on Wednesday in the Birmingham area on suspicion of an offence.

  Commander Helen Flanagan, head of Counter Terrorism Policing London, said: “While we can’t comment in detail around the allegations now that a man has been charged, I do want to reassure the public that we have not identified any direct threat to them nor any threat towards a community or individual in connection with this investigation.”

  Aberi was remanded in custody and is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday, July 17, the police said in a statement.

• 1h ago

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  Israel ramps up arrests in the occupied West Bank

  Israel has arrested at least three Palestinian citizens in Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa.

  Security officials told Wafa that Israeli forces stormed into the city at dawn on Friday and arrested Awni Rajab Tawfiq al-Sharif from al-Maajin neighbourhood, Hamza Abdul Rahman Bana from Hajjah Afifa Street, and Haitham al-Masri from Asira Street, after raiding their homes.

  Israeli arrests in the occupied West Bank have surged since Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza in 2023. According to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office, Israeli forces arrested 32 people across the occupied West Bank on Thursday.

• 1h ago

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  US forces shoot down eight explosive drones over Erbil, north Iraq

  The Kurdish counterterrorism forces say US coalition forces have shot down eight explosive drones over the city of Erbil in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, the Iraqi News Agency (INA) reports.

  No casualties were reported in the incident, it added.

• 2h ago

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  Iran says 38 killed, 400 injured in US attacks since ceasefire deal

  Iran has said 38 people have been killed, and more than 400 injured, in the US attacks since the two sides met in Switzerland on June 22 for talks to end the war through a 60-day negotiation period, the AFP news agency reported.

  The ceasefire unravelled in the last week, with both sides continuing their tit-for-tat attacks, as the Strait of Hormuz remains closed for maritime traffic.

• 2h ago

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  Tanker hit by unknown projectile off Oman’s coast, UKMTO says

  A tanker was hit by an unknown projectile on Thursday while sailing about 19 nautical miles (equivalent to about 35km) east of Khasab, Oman, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency has said.

  The crew is reported safe, with no environmental impact, UKMTO added.

• 2h ago

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  EXPLAINER

  How would the closure of the Bab al-Mandeb affect world trade?

  Iran has threatened it could prod its Houthi allies in Yemen to close the Bab al-Mandeb Strait at the mouth of the Red Sea if the US continues attacking Tehran’s infrastructure.

  The Bab al-Mandeb Strait connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and is a crucial waterway for global oil trade. Its importance has increased since Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20 percent of the world’s oil and gas is shipped in peacetime.

  If the Bab al-Mandeb were also to be closed, it would impact more than the ongoing war – it could compound the global energy supply crisis caused by the conflict, deepening the economic turmoil being felt in factories, kitchens and at petrol stations around the world.

  You can read more here. 

  

The continued strikes threaten to disrupt global oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, a critical chokepoint. Iran's refusal to return to pre-war status signals a prolonged confrontation. The EU's potential involvement in Lebanon reflects broader international concerns about stability in the region.