U.S. and Iran launch new strikes after three U.S. service members are killed

Here is the latest breaking news from around the world: and Iran launch new strikes after three U. service members are killed July 20, 20266:04 AM ET By Jane Arraf An Iranian woman walks past an anti-US banner in Tehran on July 19, 2026. Atta Kenare/ via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Atta Kenare/ via Getty Images AMMAN, Jordan - The U.

military carried out a wave of airstrikes in Iran over the weekend as it announced that a third U. service member had been killed in military operations since Friday. Middle East conflict U.

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launches new airstrikes to 'punish' Iran for troop deaths The U. attacks were the ninth consecutive day of bombing since peace talks between the two countries collapsed in dispute over a memorandum of understanding focused on the Strait of Hormuz – the key oil shipping waterway. Central Command said a service member was killed during a controlled detonation of an Iranian drone in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

It also said that it had recovered unidentified remains at a base in Jordan where two military personnel were killed in an Iranian strike Friday. It said it was still trying to determine the identity of the deceased and did not say whether the remains were those of a service member. Sponsor Message President Trump said the waves of strikes were 'in honor' of the dead service members.

"We hit them very hard again tonight," he told reporters after landing in Maryland from an appearance at the World Cup final. says the weekend deaths make 17 military personnel now killed in the conflict with Iran. Iran says at least 3,000 Iranians, many of them civilians, have been killed since the U.

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and Israel began the war against Iran on Feb. The dead include 168 children and 14 adults killed in a strike on a girls's school. military says it still has not conducted a full review of that attack.

A man walks past a mural showing a refrence to an Iranian epic in Tehran on July 19, 2026. Atta Kenare/ via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Atta Kenare/ via Getty Images Iran kept up its attacks Monday in retaliation for the U. strikes that targeted bridges and electrical infrastructure in a southern Iranian province alongside the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran had said it would respond in kind and on the weekend targeted electricity installations and water desalination plants in Kuwait, which hosts a large U. It also targeted Bahrain, home of the U. missiles had struck several Iranian cities early Monday local time.

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