Washington – The United States and Iran exchanged airstrikes Thursday for the second consecutive day, as President Donald Trump threatened further attacks unless Tehran immediately agreed to a peace deal.
Hostilities intensified earlier in the week when an American AH-64 Apache helicopter was shot down near the Strait of Hormuz, sparking a series of retaliatory strikes on Iranian cities and U.S. bases in the region, according to Reuters.
The U.S. military said its latest strikes targeted Iranian military surveillance capabilities, communication systems, and air defense sites. American officials described the action as a response to what they called ongoing and unjustified Iranian aggression.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it retaliated by attacking 18 American military targets at airbases in Kuwait and Bahrain, as well as the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet in Bahrain. The Guard later announced it fired 12 ballistic missiles at the U.S.-operated Azraq Air Base in Jordan for the second night in a row.