US Iran Strikes Enter Day 8 as 2 Soldiers Killed in Jordan
Last update: July 20, 2026
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The fragile ceasefire between Washington and Tehran has collapsed completely, with both sides now trading direct strikes for an eighth straight night.
The US and Iran have exchanged strikes for an eighth consecutive day after an Iranian attack on a base in Jordan killed two US soldiers and left another missing, cbinews.tv reports.
Iranian media said an under construction nuclear power plant in the south western city of Darkhoveyn was struck overnight, as well as Qeshm Island. In Kuwait, officials said an electricity and water plant was hit for a second time.
Later on Sunday, Jordan’s state news agency said three Iranian missiles were shot down by Jordan’s military and a fourth fell in a remote area. It came after a US warning that the Jordanian port of Aqaba could be targeted.
Both sides have ramped up attacks in recent days and have been accused of striking critical infrastructure.
Washington has reimposed its blockade of Iranian ports, while Tehran has declared the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil shipping route, closed, as their preliminary ceasefire collapsed less than a month after it began.
On Sunday, the IRGC said two vessels had ignored Iranian warnings not to transit the Strait and were consequently involved in “an accident”. It warned that all vessels that are “influenced” by the US and “use unsafe routes” will “certainly face accidents”.
The US military said its eighth successive night of attacks on Iran were “designed to further degrade Iran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz” and “swiftly punish Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces who launched attacks against American service members in Jordan last night”.
Verified footage from inside the Jordanian facility showed at least two impacts and an explosion.
Responding to the deaths, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said: “Godspeed, heroes. Their sacrifice only stiffens our resolve.”
The US death toll in the conflict has now risen to 16 after an American Navy pilot who went missing earlier this month was declared dead.
In Iran, at least 50 people have been killed and more than 500 injured in US strikes over the past three weeks, according to the country’s health ministry.
On Saturday, the Gulf Cooperation Council, an alliance including Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, accused Tehran of targeting civilian infrastructure after the first strike on a Kuwaiti power plant and a water distillation plant.
On Sunday, Kuwait said the same plant had been hit for a second time by Iran in two days, resulting in a fire. Iran said it had also targeted an air base and a depot used by US forces in Kuwait on Saturday.
The US said it “carried out strikes exclusively on military targets, including military logistics infrastructure” after Iran said bridges and a station were hit.
Washington and Tehran struck a preliminary deal to end the war in June, but the agreement unravelled within weeks, with President Donald Trump declaring the agreement “over” on 8 July.
Late on Saturday, Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said in a written statement that America’s “repeated breaches” of the agreement had “laid bare a fundamental truth: the signature of the US president is utterly worthless and devoid of credibility”.
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