U.S. carries out 10th night of strikes on Iran after 3 U.S. troops killed

The U.S. military’s Central Command said late Monday it has wrapped up a tenth consecutive night of strikes on Iran after about five hours.

The strikes targeted Iranian missile and drone sites, air defenses and other targets “to degrade Iran’s ability to continue attacking commercial vessels flowing through the Strait of Hormuz,” CENTCOM said in a post on social media accompanied by a video of aerial attacks.

A dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base for the U.S. service members killed in the Iran war over the weekend is no longer scheduled for Tuesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

“The exact day and time are still being finalized,” Leavitt wrote on X.

The top Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee and Armed Services Committee pushed the Trump administration for more information on the U.S.-Iran war.

Democratic Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, the intelligence panel’s ranking member, told reporters the “Gang of Eight” — made up of Senate and House leadership and intelligence committee leaders from both parties — hasn’t received a “meaningful” briefing “in months,” even though “there’s obviously been a lot of developments in Iran, including the tragic fatalities there.” 

Himes said he believes the intelligence committee will get an Iran briefing before House members leave town for recess later this week.

Democratic Rep. Adam Smith of Washington, ranking member of the Armed Services Committee, said, “It’s been weeks since the administration has briefed us.” Asked if the full House or the Armed Services Committee will get a briefing this week, he said “I certainly hope so,” adding that he believes there will be a briefing Tuesday.

A tanker in the Strait of Hormuz reported over the radio that it was struck by an “unknown projectile” early Tuesday local time, according to the U.K. Maritime Trade Operations Centre.

The incident was reported off the coast of Limah, Oman.

The alert did not specify the source of the projectile, but Iran has fired at several tankers and other commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz in recent weeks. Iranian authorities have demanded that ships seek permission before sailing through the strait and use a northern route within Iranian waters, rather than a southern route that hugs the Omani coastline.

The Kuwaiti army said it is working to intercept Iranian drones and missiles, in the latest round of Iranian retaliatory attacks on the U.S.-allied Gulf state.

Explosions were audible in the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas and on Qeshm Island, both of which sit on the Strait of Hormuz and have been frequent targets of U.S. strikes, Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency said.

The U.S. military’s Central Command said Monday it has launched another round of strikes against Iran, marking the tenth consecutive night of attacks.

“The strikes are designed to further degrade Iranian military capabilities used to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz,” CENTCOM said on social media.

Jordan’s armed forces said Monday evening they had shot down three Iranian missiles, adding that there had been no material damage or casualties.

There was no immediate word from Iran.

Nearly 100 American service members have been injured in multiple Iranian airstrikes on bases in the Middle East region this month, U.S. officials told CBS News. Most have returned to duty, two of the officials said.

Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell confirmed the numbers in a statement to CBS News, saying almost 100 people “were deemed to have some degree of injury since July 7, 2026,” 96% of whom have returned.

“They are determined to get back in the fight. The vast majority of injuries experienced were minor concussions,” Parnell said.

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The establishment of initial “pilot zones” in Lebanon “represents real progress on the ground” in a movement toward peace, a U.S. official told CBS News.

Lebanese forces will control the zones following Israel’s withdrawal from them, the U.S. State Department announced earlier Monday. That gives Lebanon an opportunity to start reasserting control in parts of the country historically dominated by Hezbollah, the official said, adding that launching the first zones should trigger the confidence and momentum needed to continue expanding the process.

“Any attempt by Hezbollah to derail, infiltrate, or re-arm in these zones would seriously harm the prospects for reconstruction and peace, and the interests of the Lebanese people,” the official said.

The threat from Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, who have announced a maritime blockade of Saudi Arabia, risks an “even wider” regional conflict, the spokesperson for U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres warned Monday.

“We’ve seen the reports and are very much concerned by the renewed Houthi threats against Saudi Arabia, against freedom of navigation, which leads to the risk of an even wider regional escalation,” the spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, told reporters.

 Multiple ships were struck on Sunday near the Strait of Hormuz, a British maritime agency said. 

One incident occurred 17 nautical miles east of Dibba, in the United Arab Emirates, in which a vessel reported “being struck by an unknown projectile” that damaged its steering gear, according to the U.K. Maritime Trade Operations center. It said the strike had “no environmental impact.” 

Another incident, also on Sunday, happened eight nautical miles off the coast of Kumzar, Oman. That incident has been classified as an attack by the maritime agency, which said a vessel was struck by an unknown projectile that caused a fire on the ship. 

“The fire has not been extinguished and the vessel is currently adrift,” the agency said on Monday, adding that crews in both incidents have been reported as safe. Still, it urged vessels to move through the region “with caution” as authorities investigate.

Iran’s Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni traveled to Pakistan, a key mediator in the conflict, for talks on Monday, offering a glimmer of hope for diplomacy even as the U.S. and Iran inch closer to all-out war. 

Iranian state media reported that Momeni had landed in Islamabad Monday evening. He is scheduled to participate in two days of talks during his trip.

Momeni’s counterpart, Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, said he was optimistic the talks would bring progress. While in Islamabad, the Iranian official is set to meet with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, among others. 

Since the U.S. and Iran resumed attacks on each other’s military installations and other infrastructure, Pakistan has intensified diplomatic efforts in recent days to resuscitate the interim ceasefire reached last month. The truce, now unraveled, had called for resolving remaining issues tied to the war within 60 days.

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The U.S. military said Monday that it has disabled one commercial vessel, and redirected seven others, as part of its naval blockade on Iranian ports, preventing ships from leaving or entering. 

The U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM, shared those figures in a post on X and said they’re current as of July 20. It attributed the actions to American service members aboard the USS Boxer, an amphibious assault ship, who “support flight operations day and night from the Arabian Sea as CENTCOM enforces the naval blockade against Iran,” according to the military organization.

President Trump is set to attend the dignified transfer of the service members killed over the weekend, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

Leavitt originally said the dignified transfer would take place Tuesday evening, but said later Monday it had been rescheduled, although the exact date and time were not yet known.

The transfer will take place at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.

“The President and the entire White House are praying for their families,” Leavitt said in a post on X. 

In March, the president participated in a dignified transfer of six service members who were killed in the first days of the war with Iran.

President Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social that he’s directed military leaders to see that Iran pays for the death of each U.S. soldier “many times over.”

“Every time Iran kills an American Soldier they will pay for that killing many times over!” Mr. Trump wrote. “This directive has been passed on to Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Daniel Caine, and every Leader in the Military.”

Two French embassy staff in Iran were subjected to “an extremely serious act of intimidation” by Iranian security services, with one of them being physically abused, France’s foreign minister said Monday.

Jean-Noel Barrot said in a post on X that the two members of the embassy staff, who he did not name, were detained by Iranian forces late Sunday “in flagrant violation of diplomatic immunity.”

Both were “detained for several hours without reason, interrogated and one of them was physically abused” before they were allowed to return to the embassy, he said.

“I informed the Iranian foreign minister that this extremely serious and unacceptable violation of the integrity of our agents cannot go without consequences,” Barrot wrote.

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Yemen’s Iranian-aligned Houthi rebels have vowed to close the Bab el-Mandeb strait to Saudi ships, after saying earlier Monday they were imposing a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia after a recent attack on Sanaa airport.

Nasruddin Amer, the deputy head of the Houthi media office, said in a post on X that the Bab al-Mandeb strait would be closed “to Saudi enemy ships” in response to what he called the country’s “unjust blockade on Yemenis for over 10 years.”

Iran has threatened multiple times during the war with the U.S. to order its Yemeni allies — who have previously attacked ships in the region — to close down the Bab el-Mandeb strait in retaliation for ongoing U.S. attacks on Iranian infrastructure. 

Roughly 10% of global oil shipments typically traverse the strait, making it another key chokepoint for energy markets like the Strait of Hormuz.

Kuwait’s military said Monday that it was responding to renewed Iranian missile and drone attacks, as Tehran continued targeting U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf.

“Kuwaiti air defenses are currently confronting hostile missile and drone attacks,” the Kuwaiti army said in a statement, blaming Iran. 

In nearby Bahrain, air raid sirens also sounded, according to the island kingdom’s interior ministry. In a post on X, the ministry told citizens to “head to the nearest safe location.” 

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The State Department announced Monday that the first “pilot zones” had been launched in Lebanon, suggesting that Israeli forces had or would soon withdraw from three villages in the south of the neighboring country, though no such moves were immediately confirmed by Israel. 

As part of a deal signed at the State Department between Israel and Lebanon in late June, Israeli forces are to withdraw from “pilot zones” in Lebanon and be replaced by Lebanese forces. The agreement also calls for the “disarmament of non-state armed groups” in the designated zones – a reference to Iran-backed Hezbollah militants. 

Hezbollah has flatly refused calls to disarm, and Israel has said it will only fully withdraw when it is sure the Iranian proxy group no longer poses a threat to its territory. 

Nonetheless, State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said in a statement Monday that “pilot zone operations began in the villages of Froun, Srifa, and Zawtar Al-Gharbiya,” calling it a “milestone” and “a direct outcome of last week’s discussions between Israel and Lebanon in Rome.”

Israel’s military has for months occupied what it calls a “security zone” that extends about six miles into Lebanon, along the length of the two countries’ shared border. Israeli officials say it’s necessary to protect residents in Israel’s north from Hezbollah rocket and drone attacks. 

More than 4,000 people have been killed in Lebanon since the start of Israel’s war against Hezbollah, according to the Lebanese health ministry.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that he expects Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun to have a “very positive meeting” with President Trump Tuesday when they meet at the White House.

The U.S. military has released photos of two soldiers killed in Jordan over the weekend, 19-year-old Army Pvt. Isabella Gonzales of Carrollton, Texas, and 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii.

A third service member remains listed by the military as missing in action following the attack.

The Pentagon said Gonzales was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 52nd Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Air Missile Defense Command, in Ansbach, Germany. Feehan was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 55th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 32nd Army Air Missile Defense Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote, “Their sacrifice only stiffens our resolve.”

Another U.S. service member died in a separate incident in northern Iraq during a controlled explosion to destroy an Iranian drone, Central Command said.

Following the Iranian attack on the base in Jordan, U.S. forces launched a new round of airstrikes against Iran at the direction of President Trump, CENTCOM said Saturday evening.

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Iran said on Monday that diplomatic exchanges with the United States were ongoing, via mediators, despite an escalating exchange of fire between the countries.

“We have been informed by mediators, we have received messages – without going into details – but the main point is that the diplomatic apparatus has been active in recent days and ideas have been conveyed to us by certain mediators,” Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said during a press briefing Monday in Tehran.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that Iran, “directly and through multiple channels,” had continued signaling to the U.S. that “they want to talk.”

He said a return to diplomacy would be “very positive,” but added: “That’s not where we are tonight, unfortunately.”

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that the Iranian regime has been “directly and through multiple channels” signaling to the U.S. that “they want to talk” despite escalating attacks by both sides over the last week.

Rubio told journalists the U.S. “always remains open to a diplomatic solution … and they continue to send signals that they want to talk, that they want to negotiate, but their behavior is what we’re responding to.”

He said Iran was giving those indications “directly and through multiple channels with other countries as well, adding that a return to diplomacy would be “a very positive development,” but “that’s not where we are tonight, unfortunately.”

Asked if the memorandum of understanding between the two countries was dead, Rubio said the Strait of Hormuz was supposed to have been “free of tolls, free of attacks, free of all the things they’re doing against these ships,” referring to recent Iranian attacks on ships in the waterway. “You can’t have an MoU that’s alive if they’re violating the terms of it.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that “the only reason” the U.S. is attacking Iran is because of the Islamic Republic’s attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz. 

“The only reason why the U.S. is conducting strikes is against assets of Iran that are being used to attack global commercial shipping,” he told reporters. 

“The Straits of Hormuz are an international waterway, and they continue to launch against ships in that international waterway,” he added. “The United States is involved not just in protecting those ships but in targeting the places that they use to launch these missiles and drones.”

“That’s what you’re seeing. That’s what the objective of this mission is,” he said. “Their behavior has to change in order for ours to change.”

The U.S. has conducted nine straight nights of attacks on Iran.

Iran’s powerful allies in Yemen, the Houthi rebels, announced Monday that they would impose a naval blockade of neighboring Saudi Arabia in retaliation for a recent attack on Sanaa airport.

“The Yemeni Armed Forces announce a ban on maritime navigation for the criminal Saudi enemy,” Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said, according to the Houthi-owned Almasirah news outlet, adding that it would “come into effect from the moment this statement is announced.”

His statement did not explain how the blockade would work, but the Houthis have previously attacked ships in the region.

Saree’s remarks came after a fiery exchange between the Houthis and the Saudi-led coalition that backs Yemen’s government last week, during which Saudi forces struck Sanaa International Airport, which has been under Houthi control for more than a decade, and the Houthis attacked Abha airport in Saudi Arabia. The clash threatens a truce that has been in place since 2022.

The blockade announced by the Houthis could put new pressure on Saudi Arabia, as it has been using its East-West Pipeline to get oil out of the kingdom amid the ongoing default closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran. The pipeline moves oil to Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea ports, where it is loaded on tankers and distributed around the world.

The Houthi threat to prevent Saudi oil shipments comes after the rebels targeted ships for months in the Red Sea region in response to Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. During that conflict Houthi weapons targeted about 100 vessels in the Red Sea and around the Bab el-Mandeb strait, the southern entrance to the sea.

Iran has warned multiple times during the war that it could order its Houthi allies to shut down the Bab el-Mandeb if the U.S. attacked civilian energy infrastructure. About 10% of global oil shipments typically traverse the strait, making it another key chokepoint for energy markets like the Strait of Hormuz.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave some details on the incidents that led to the deaths of at least three U.S. service members in Jordan and Iraq over the weekend.

In remarks to reporters before he departed for the Philippines on Sunday night, Rubio said “a missile got through” to hit the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, where two U.S. soldiers were killed Friday. Another soldier remains missing after the Iranian attack – one of several targeting the base in recent days, 

“We shot down almost all the missiles,” he said. “One leaked through, hit the wrong place, and tragically, and it’s heartbreaking.”

Video of the attack in Jordan appears to show that it came with little or no warning, with shocked military personnel scrambling to get to shelters.

Four Iranian attacks in five days aimed at U.S. forces — including two direct hits on the air base in Jordan — wounded American service members, raising questions about whether missile defense systems either failed to intercept them or failed to spot them coming.

The U.S. military confirmed Sunday that another U.S. service member was killed in northern Iraq, during a controlled explosion to destroy an Iranian attack drone.

“They were decommissioning ammunition and an accident happened in that process and they were harmed,” Rubio said. “We’re just grateful to have such heroic Americans in uniform in service of our country.”  

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Monday that his country was in a “full-scale war” with the United States and he warned Iranians that they would have to accept the repercussions of the conflict.

“The reality is that today the Islamic Republic of Iran is engaged in a full-scale war,” Pezeshkian said, adding that “we must be realistic and accept the natural consequences of this resistance,” according to a statement issued by the presidency.

Iran killed at least two U.S. soldiers over the weekend in an attack on an American air base in Jordan, while another American service member died in Iraq during the controlled explosion of an Iranian drone, U.S. Central Command said. 

The U.S. has carried out nine straight nights of attacks on Iran.

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The U.S. military has identified two soldiers killed in an Iranian attack on a U.S. base in Jordan.

The two soldiers were named as 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, who was killed Saturday, and Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Carrollton, Texas, who was killed Friday.

Both were stationed at the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan. The U.S. military is investigating the incidents.

Both soldiers were part of U.S. Army air defense artillery regiments. Feehan was based in North Carolina, and Gonzales was based in Germany.

Another soldier has been declared missing after the strikes in Jordan. Remains have been found at the base but have yet to be identified.

A third U.S. service member was declared dead in northern Iraq Sunday after a controlled detonation of an Iranian attack drone, according to the U.S. military.

At least three U.S. servicemembers were killed over the weekend in Iranian attacks, 

A third American soldier in northern Iraq died following “a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian one-way attack drone,” CENTCOM said in a statement.

The first two were killed in a strike on a U.S. air base in Jordan. Remains have been found after another soldier at the base was declared missing after the attack, but they have yet to be identified.

Video of the precision ballistic missile attack in Jordan suggests it came with little or no warning, with shocked military personnel scrambling to get to shelters.

The missile and drone barrage was the second time in two days Iran managed to launch a direct hit on the base. In total, four Iranian attacks in five days targeting U.S. forces in Jordan have left multiple people wounded, raising questions about whether missile defense systems either failed to intercept them or failed to see them coming.

CENTCOM vowed over the weekend to “swiftly punish” Iran for strikes on Jordan.

President Trump has paid tribute to the fallen on Sunday.

“Well, we feel very badly,” he said. 

“But, you know, those great people, those great patriots who are there fighting that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon,” he added, though recent U.S. airstrikes have been focused on reopening the Strait of Hormuz, not dismantling Iran’s nuclear program.

The U.S. military has been sending more assets – such as aerial refuelers – to the region, and the deaths of the first U.S. troops in months appears to suggest that the U.S. military response is going to escalate.

Sailors safely abandoned a vessel set alight by an attack in the Strait of Hormuz, the U.K. Maritime Trade Operations agency said Monday, as the United States and Iran vie for control over the vital waterway.

“The vessel was struck by an unknown projectile. The crew safely abandoned the vessel and have been recovered by a tug boat. The fire has not been extinguished and the vessel is currently adrift. There is no reported environmental impact,” UKMTO said in an update to an earlier statement.

The agency, which is run by the British military, had reported the ship was “on fire” eight nautical miles northwest of Kumzar, Oman.

Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guards said that two oil tankers trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz “exploded and were brought to a halt.”

During the war, Iran blockaded the Strait of Hormuz through which one-fifth of the world’s oil and LNG used to pass.

As part of a memorandum of understanding signed with the United States, it has to work with Oman on the waterway’s future administration — which it has vowed will never be the same.

In recent weeks, Iran has hit tankers using a route hugging the Omani coast to traverse the strait, in a bid to strongarm vessels into using its own waters and to pay for safe passage.

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The U.S. completed a ninth straight night of strikes against Iran at 10 p.m. ET on Sunday, U.S. Central Command said. 

“CENTCOM assets targeted Iranian military command centers, air defense and coastal surveillance sites, maritime capabilities, missile and drone launch sites, and communications networks to further diminish Iran’s ability to attack commercial vessels and civilian mariners transiting the Strait of Hormuz,” the military said.

CENTCOM announced Sunday that unidentified remains were found in Jordan at the location of an Iranian strike that killed two U.S. service members and left another missing. 

“An examination process to verify the remains is ongoing,” the U.S. military said.

U.S. gas prices jumped to an average of $4 a gallon again Monday as the U.S. and Iran launched more attacks.

According to motor club federation AAA, the national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is now back to $4. The average price a year ago was $3.14 a gallon.

The price is a national average, meaning drivers in some states have been paying well over $4 a gallon for a while now, while others pay less. Prices vary between states due to factors ranging from nearby supply to differing tax rates.

People around the world are also dealing with high gas prices as a result of the war.

Gas prices first went over $4 a gallon on average at the end of March. They dipped below that in mid-June and continued to fall as crude oil prices eased when the U.S. and Iran reached an interim deal. Even then, President Trump expressed frustration that gas prices weren’t falling as quickly as oil prices.

Oil prices have climbed again in recent days as the U.S. and Iran appear to be moving closer to resuming an all-out war.

Brent crude, the international standard, rose 3.2% to $90.95 per barrel Monday and benchmark U.S. crude climbed 2.8% to $84.04 per barrel.

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Israel’s military said debris from Iranian missiles launched at the Jordanian city of Aqba, which were intercepted by Jordanian forces, was also intercepted by Israeli interceptors to prevent the objects impacting Israeli territory. 

The Iranian missile salvo was aimed at Aqaba on Sunday, the Israeli military said, after Amman denied the city’s airport and seaport were evacuated over a threat.

Minutes before the interception, the Israeli military said it had detected missiles launched from Iran towards Aqaba and warned of the possibility of “spillover” into Israeli territory.

The Jordanian military said it had downed “three Iranian missiles that targeted the kingdom’s territory,” while a fourth fell in a deserted area, without specifying where.

Air raid sirens were also activated in the Jordanian capital, Amman, and other parts of the kingdom.

However, the Jordanian government had earlier denied reports that authorities ordered the evacuation of Aqaba’s airport and seaport, after the U.S. embassy said they had been evacuated over a “credible threat.”

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The Iranian missile and drone attack that killed at least two U.S. service members on Friday occurred at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, a U.S. official confirmed to CBS News. 

The location of the strike was first reported by the Wall Street Journal. 

A third soldier remains missing in action following the Iranian strike, U.S. Central Command previously reported, and four other soldiers were treated and released from a hospital in Jordan. 

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reacted to the deaths of two U.S. service members in Jordan following Iranian strikes overnight, saying Saturday in a social media post, “Godspeed, heroes.”

“Their sacrifice only stiffens our resolve,” Hegseth said on X.

Two U.S. service members were killed in a strike on a base in Jordan overnight, according to U.S. Central Command. A third service member is missing in action, CENTCOM said.

Four other U.S. service members were medically evacuated to hospital in Jordan, and have since been discharged. There were other service members treated for minor injuries, CENTCOM said.

The deaths were the 15th and 16th among U.S. service members in the current war with Iran. Six service members were killed in an Iranian attack on a base in Kuwait in March. Also in March, six were killed when a refueling plane crashed in Iraq and one was killed in an Iranian strike on the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.

In the most recent death, a U.S. Navy pilot died when his MH-60S helicopter made an emergency landing at sea last month.