US military identifies soldiers killed in Iranian attack on Jordan
The US defence department has identified the two soldiers killed over the weekend in an Iranian attack on Jordan as 25-year-old first lieutenant Tyler James Feehan of Ewa Beach, Hawaii and 19-year-old private Isabella Gonzales of Carrollton, Texas.
Feehan was killed in action on Saturday and Gonzales on Friday in an attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan.
Feehan was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 55th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 32nd Army Air Missile Defense Command out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina while Gonzales was assigned to 1st Battalion, 57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 52nd Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Air Missile Defense Command in Ansbach, Germany.
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Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of Iran’s parliament, posted on X that the US keeps bringing new military equipment into the region while also claiming they want to end the war.
He said Iran has reached a stage of mastery in recognising American games and have prepared themselves as such.
Air sirens are again sounding in Bahrain, for the fourth time in less than 24 hours, with the ministry of interior urging residents to remain calm and seek shelter.
Earlier, Bahrain’s civil aviation authority said Iranian drones had targeted Bahrain’s air navigation system, but traffic has remained unaffected.
Donald Trump says he feels 'very badly' about three US military casualties
While speaking to reporters on Sunday, Donald Trump acknowledged the three US military casualties as the strikes on Iran continue unabated.
“Well, we feel very badly, but you know those great people, those great patriots, were out there fighting that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said while returning to Washington from the Fifa World Cup final in New Jersey.
The president insisted that Iran “lost everything almost militarily” and the US controls the strait of Hormuz. “They don’t control anything. So we’ll see what happens. But we hit them very hard again tonight,” Trump added.
One service member was killed on Saturday in northern Iraq during a controlled detonation on a downed Iranian drone and two more were killed in an Iranian attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan on Friday. The US defence department identified the two killed in Jordan as 25-year-old first lieutenant Tyler James Feehan of Ewa Beach, Hawaii and 19-year-old private Isabella Gonzales of Carrollton, Texas.
In total, 17 US military personnel have been killed since the war began.
Updated at 09.07 EDT
We have some more quotes from the Houthi military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, who has been quoted by Al Jazeera as having said the continued blockade of Yemen’s Sana’a airport “is unacceptable and cannot be tolerated”.
Saree said the Houthis would respond “to the blockade with a blockade and to respond to all escalation with escalation”.
He continued:
double quotation markThe Yemeni armed forces affirm their complete readiness for all options and any foolish act committed by the reckless Saudi enemy.
We call upon the people of our great nation to continue the general mobilization and general call to arms, and to be fully prepared for all scenarios and developments, and to support the fronts with fighters.
Yemen has been in a state of intermittent civil war since 2015, when the Houthis seized control of Sana’a, the capital, forcing the UN-recognised government to withdraw to Aden in the south with Saudi support, as my colleague notes in this story.
A Saudi-led coalition imposed an air and sea blockade on Yemen in 2015, as part of its war efforts to dislodge the Houthis. That year, the UN established a mechanism to inspect and verify that vessels heading to Yemeni ports don’t carry weapons.
The blockade has, however, resulted in crippling restrictions on the flow of commercial goods and humanitarian aid into the country, which has been one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
Updated at 09.04 EDT
Yemen's Houthis declare naval blockade against Saudi Arabia
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels have announced a maritime embargo of Saudi Arabia.
The rebels “declare a maritime embargo against the criminal Saudi enemy, based on the equation of ‘an eye for an eye’ effective immediately upon the issuance of this statement,” military spokesperson Yahya Saree said.
The territory controlled by the Houthis in Yemen sits alongside the critical Bab al-Mandab strait, which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea, and is vulnerable to Houthi attacks by drones missiles and small boats. The Red Sea route is responsible for about 15% of global naval shipping trade.
The decision by the Houthis could put new pressure on Saudi Arabia as it is using its East-West Pipeline to try to get oil out of the kingdom as the strait of Hormuz remains in the effective control of Iran.
Smoke rises after airstrikes on Sana’a international airport on 13 July 2026. Photograph: Xinhua/Shutterstock
Tensions between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia were inflamed earlier this month after Yemeni government planes, supported by Saudi Arabia, bombed the Houthi-controlled Sana’a airport in protest at Iranian efforts to send a plane to the city containing a Houthi delegation returning from the funeral of the Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei. The Houthis responded by targeting Saudi Arabia’s Abha international airport.
The Houthi militant group controls Sana’a, while Yemen’s internationally-recognised government, backed by Saudi Arabia, is based in the southern Yemeni city of Aden. For over a decade, aircraft entering Yemeni airspace have needed permission from the Saudi-led coalition first.
Updated at 08.51 EDT
Pentagon failed to disclose information about dozens of US military injuries - report
In the week leading up to the Iranian attack on Friday that killed two American troops in Jordan, Iran launched three other strikes against US forces in the country, according to the New York Times.
The Times, citing several US officials with knowledge of the matter, reports that dozens of American service members were injured in these attacks, but the Pentagon did not disclose the strikes or the injuries they caused.
The Times reports that the Iranian attacks in Jordan, which hosts major US air bases, also damaged several helicopters, something else the Pentagon also reportedly kept secret.
- The United Kingdom Maritime Operations Centre updated its previous report to say that a vessel on fire off the Omani coast in the strait of Hormuz had been struck by an unknown projectile. Though Iran’s Revolutionary Guard had earlier claimed that twooil tankers were blown up after attempting to transit through the southern route of the strait, there has been no independent confirmation of this and it is unclear if the IRGC was referring to this vessel.
- US forces wrapped up its ninth consecutive night of strikes against Iran on Monday as the number of confirmed American military deaths in the renewed fighting rose to three. The strikes were aimed at “degrading” Iran’s ability to attack commercial vessels in the strait of Hormuz, the US military’s Central Command said. US missiles struck several Iranian cities early on Monday, according to Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency, with explosions heard in Tabriz, Chabahar, Konarak, Bandar Mahshahr and Bandar Imam Khomeini.
- Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei on Monday called on the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency to condemn the overnight US strikes on a nuclear power plant under construction in Darkhovin. The IAEA had previously said that the watchdog agency was looking into reports of the strike, but noted that the facility was “in the very early stages of construction and contained no nuclear material when last visited by the IAEA”. The watchdog added that director general Rafael Grossi “reiterates call for military restraint in the vicinity of all nuclear-related sites”.
- Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it hit US military targets in Kuwait and targeted US aircraft in Jordan’s Aqaba airport with ballistic missiles, while sirens sounded in Bahrain on Monday and the Guard also announced a surprise strike against “the enemy’s special operations headquarters in Syria’s Al-Tanf area”. Bahrain’s civil aviation authority said Iranian drones had targeted Bahrain’s air navigation system, but traffic has remained unaffected.
- Amid the exchange of strikes, diplomatic exchanges between the US and Iran have continued via mediators, said Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei. Though Baghaei said that Iran would not allow the strait of Hormuz to be used to threaten the country’s security – and that Iran was “determined to take the necessary measures” to safeguard its sovereignty – the news of the diplomatic talks was enough to bring the price of oil back below $90 a barrel.
- Donald Trump said the latest American strikes were being carried out in honour of the US service members killed in recent days. The US military had said a service member was killed on Saturday in northern Iraq during a controlled detonation on a downed Iranian drone, and that a day earlier two of its service personnel were killed in Jordan in an Iranian attack. On Monday, the US military identified the soldiers killed in Jordan as 25-year-old first lieutenant Tyler James Feehan of Ewa Beach, Hawaii and 19-year-old private Isabella Gonzales of Carrollton, Texas. Iran’s health ministry said on Saturday that 50 people had been killed and more than 500 injured in US strikes on the country over the past three weeks.
Updated at 08.02 EDT
Bahrain’s civil aviation authority said Iranian drones targeted Bahrain’s air navigation system on Monday, according to AFP – but traffic has remained unaffected.
“As a result of a hostile Iranian act of aggression against the kingdom of Bahrain, civil air navigation systems serving the Bahrain flight information region were targeted by hostile drones. However, air navigation operations remained unaffected,” the civil aviation authority said in a statement, adding that “flights and air traffic” were proceeding normally.
Updated at 07.31 EDT
US military identifies soldiers killed in Iranian attack on Jordan
The US defence department has identified the two soldiers killed over the weekend in an Iranian attack on Jordan as 25-year-old first lieutenant Tyler James Feehan of Ewa Beach, Hawaii and 19-year-old private Isabella Gonzales of Carrollton, Texas.
Feehan was killed in action on Saturday and Gonzales on Friday in an attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan.
Feehan was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 55th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 32nd Army Air Missile Defense Command out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina while Gonzales was assigned to 1st Battalion, 57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 52nd Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Air Missile Defense Command in Ansbach, Germany.
Oil has fallen back below $90 a barrel, paring back some of its earlier gains after reports of diplomatic exchange between the US and Iran.
Iran has said that diplomatic exchanges with the United States via mediators were ongoing, despite US military strikes on the country.
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US gas prices jump to average of $4 a gallon again new strikes
The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline has jumped once again on Monday as the US and Iran launched more attacks, AP reports.
The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is now back to $4, almost an entire dollar more than the average price a year ago at $3.14 a gallon, according to motor club federation AAA.
Average gas prices reached over $4 gallon at the start of the conflict at the end of March, but dipped in mid-June and continued to fall after US and Iran reached an interim deal.
Updated at 06.39 EDT
Iran urges IAEA action on US strike of under-construction nuclear site
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei on Monday called on the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency to condemn the overnight US strikes on a nuclear power plant under construction in Darkhovin.
“Iran... expects the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) board of dovernors and the director general of the IAEA, who from time to time makes political statements regarding the Iranian nuclear issue, to clearly state their position on this matter in condemning the US crime,” Baghaei said at a press conference attended by AFP.
The IAEA had previously said that the watchdog agency was looking into reports of the strike, but noted that the facility was “in the very early stages of construction and contained no nuclear material when last visited by the IAEA”.
The watchdog added that director general Rafael Grossi “reiterates call for military restraint in the vicinity of all nuclear-related sites”.
Iran foreign ministery: Diplomatic exchanges between US and Iran are ongoing
Diplomatic exchanges between the US and Iran are ongoing via mediators, even amid US strikes on Iran and the Iran’s Revolutionary Guard claiming to have targeted US military infrastructure in other Gulf nations, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei told the AFP at a press conference on Monday.
“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,” Baghaei said.
However, Baghaei said that Iran would not allow the strait of Hormuz to be used to threaten the country’s security, adding that the country was “determined to take the necessary measures” to safeguard its sovereignty.
Updated at 07.42 EDT
UKMTO: Vessel on fire in strait of Hormuz had been struck by unknown projectile
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency is reporting that the vessel on fire off the Omani coast in the strait of Hormuz had been struck by an unknown projectile.
The crew has safely abandoned the vessel and were rescued by a tug boat, UKMTO said. The fire has not been extinguished and the vessel is currently adrift.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard had earlier claimed that twooil tankers were blown up after attempting to transit through the southern route of the strait, but there has been no independent confirmation of this and it is unclear if the IRGC was referring to this vessel.
Updated at 03.52 EDT
State news agency IRNA reports that overnight US strikes hit several locations in Bushehr, a southern port city in Iran and the home to the country’s only civilian nuclear plant, according to AFP.
There were no details on casualties or damages.