Jordan authorities deny to AFP evacuation of Aqaba airport, seaport
Iran nuclear agency condemns US strike on Darkhovin nuclear power plant site, Mehr reports
The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran condemned a U.S. attack on the site of the nuclear power
plant under contruction in Darkhovin, saying the strike violated international law, Mehr news agency reported on Sunday without saying when the strike occurred.
Construction of the plant in southwestern Iran’s Khuzestan province began in 2022.
Iran executes two men convicted over killing of four police officers during early 2026 protests
Iran has executed two men convicted of killing four police officers during violent unrest in the central city of Isfahan in January, judiciary-linked news outlet Mizan reported on Sunday.
Mizan identified the men as Erfan Esfandiyari and Golmohammad Mohammadi, adding that their death sentences were carried out on Sunday after a court process.
Airport and seaport in Jordan evacuated due to ‘credible threat’, US embassy says
The international airport and seaport in Aqaba in southern Jordan was evacuated because of a “specific
and credible threat”, the US embassy said on X on Sunday.
“We strongly advise all Americans to refrain (from) travelling to either the airport or seaport. Continue to follow all Jordanian authorities’ security directives,” the embassy said, without providing further details.
Palestinians say Israeli settlers torch West Bank mosque, factory
Israeli settlers set fire overnight to a mosque in a village in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian official said Sunday.
More than two dozen settlers, some masked, attacked the Al-Taqwa mosque in the village of Al-Tuwani during the night and set it on fire, Mohammed Rabie, head of the village council, told AFP.
The settlers also set fire to two houses and a dairy factory, he said, adding the attackers spray-painted Hebrew graffiti on the walls of the mosque.
Rabie said the settlers fled after villagers emerged from their homes, adding that local volunteers managed to extinguish the flames before they spread further.
The Israeli police said it deployed officers to the village last night “after a report of suspects who caused damage at the site, including a vehicle that was set on fire, damage to the door of a prayer structure, and graffiti sprayed on walls.”
The incident came during a period of increased attacks against Palestinian communities by settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank since the start of the Gaza war in 2023.
Iran’s Guards say two ships involved in ‘accident’ after defying Hormuz warnings, Tasnim reports
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday that two ships were involved in an “accident” after attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz via an “unsafe route”, while two other vessels abandoned that route, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.
The Guards said the four vessels had ignored Iranian warnings and acted with US backing.
“Vessels that are influenced by the words of the Americans and enter unsafe routes will certainly face accidents,” the Guards warned in a statement.
US soldiers killed in Jordan, Trump vows to shift action
Two American service members were killed and a third is missing following an Iranian attack on a US base in Jordan following a week of the heaviest fighting since the conflict began in February.
Days of escalating exchanges have targeted military installations and civilian infrastructure across the region, Morgan Ayre reports.
Bahrain air defences intercept Iranian attack, state tv says
Air raid sirens sound in Bahrain, interior ministry says
US launches new air strikes on Iran after confirming troop deaths
The US launched an eighth round of strikes on Iran overnight on Saturday after an Iranian attack on a base in Jordan killed two American service members, left one missing and four requiring hospitalisation. FRANCE 24’s Fraser Jackson reports from Washington.
Kuwait military says responding to Iran missile, drone attacks
Kuwait’s military has said it is responding to aerial salvos fired by Iran a day after the Gulf state faced barrages from the Islamic republic that struck a power plant and oil facility.
“Kuwaiti air defenses are currently confronting hostile missile and drone attacks, following the sinful Iranian aggression,” the army said in a statement.
Lebanon’s Aoun to meet Trump at White House
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun will make his first trip to the White House this week to present a plan to US President Donald Trump on how to disarm Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and secure Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon.
Aoun is the first Lebanese head of state in nearly 20 years to visit the White House, where he will meet Trump face-to-face for the first time.
In comments published by his office last week, Aoun said he would ask Trump to “exert the necessary pressure on Israel” to implement a US-brokered June 26 agreement between Lebanon and Israel to end fighting.
A Lebanese official said Aoun would present Trump with a written proposal on how to decommission Hezbollah’s massive arsenal. The official said Aoun believes only Trump possesses the leverage needed to pressure Israel to withdraw its troops and help Lebanon restore its sovereignty.
An Israeli flag hangs from a building in an area occupied by Israeli troops in southern Lebanon, Thursday, July 9, 2026. @ Ohad Zwigenberg, AP
Iran war death toll climbs as fighting escalates
Washington said on Saturday that two additional troops were killed in Jordan as part of the war with Iran, bringing the total number of US military deaths to 16.
The two troops are the first to be killed directly by Iranian fire but others have died across the Middle East as fighting has escalated and US bases in the Gulf nations have become targets.
- Six US soldiers were killed in Kuwait shortly after the war began on February 28. A seventh died more than a week after being wounded during a March 1 Iranian attack on air base in Saudi Arabia.
Later in March, six service members were killed when a refuelling aircraft supporting US military operations against Iran crashed in Iraq. A navy pilot died in July in a helicopter crash in the Arabian Sea.
- Meanwhile Iranian authorities said at least 50 people have been killed and more than 500 wounded in US strikes in the past three weeks, including eight killed in a strike on a bridge Friday.
- People working on ships, foreign workers and others in Gulf nations, Israel and Lebanon have also perished in the conflict.
Iran army says targeted US bases in Kuwait with drones, state TV reports
Iran’s army said it had targeted two US bases in Kuwait with drones in response to American attacks on Iranian territory.
The Islamic republic’s army said it carried out “large-scale attacks with kamikaze drones against the US military’s ammunition depot at Camp Udairi and the Patriot radar system and air surveillance radar at Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait”, according to a statement carried by the state broadcaster.
US launches strikes to ‘punish’ Iran after troops killed
The United States said airstrikes on Sunday aimed to “punish” Iran over the first US military deaths since renewed hostilities with the Islamic republic.
The US military said that it carried out an eighth consecutive night of strikes against Iran, with targets including units behind the attack that killed two American troops in Jordan.
The attacks aimed to “swiftly punish Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces who launched attacks against American service members in Jordan last night”, said US Central Command.
The strikes successfully hit Iranian military coastal surveillance and air defence facilities, maritime capabilities, and missile and drone storage sites CENTCOM said.
The Iranian news agencies Fars and Tasnim simultaneously reported US attacks on Sirik, a port located on the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran.
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