U.S. and Iran exchange strikes, as violence escalates between Israel and Hezbollah - BERITAJA

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks during a news convention pinch his Iraqi counterpart Fouad Hussein aft their gathering astatine the overseas ministry successful Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 28, 2026. Hadi Mizban/AP Photo/Hadi Mizban/AP

Hadi Mizban/AP Photo/Hadi Mizban/AP

Iran's Revolutionary Guard claimed work for launching drone and rocket attacks connected Bahrain and Kuwait connected Sunday, according to a connection issued via state-run Iranian media. The attempted strikes came hours aft caller U.S. subject action against Iranian targets. The latest speech has put negotiations toward a lasting ceasefire successful sedate jeopardy.

It was the about important escalation since Iran and the U.S. signed a memorandum of understanding earlier this month. Under that agreement, some sides gave themselves 60 days to resoluteness cardinal disputes. Those see shipping arrangements successful the Strait of Hormuz, the removal of a U.S. blockade connected Iranian ports, sanctions alleviation and the future of Iran's stockpile of highly enriched uranium.

Kuwait said its aerial defenses had intercepted 2 Iranian ballistic missiles. There were nary reports of injuries aliases damage. Bahrain's Interior Ministry said Iranian munitions deed a residential building adjacent the world airport. No 1 was killed. The ministry released photos of an eight-story building pinch its apical level destroyed and windows blown out. The building was not adjacent the office of the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet. The fleet is based successful Bahrain and came nether sustained attack during the war.

Bahrain's Foreign Ministry condemned what it called "a vulnerable escalation that reveals that what Tehran is doing is not a passing act, nor an isolated incident, but alternatively a deliberate attack and a systematic shape of repeated aggression."

An Israeli emblem tops a destroyed building successful confederate Lebanon, arsenic seen from bluish Israel, Sunday, June 28, 2026. Ohad Zwigenberg/AP

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Escalating unit betwixt Israel and Hezbollah

Meanwhile, accrued unit betwixt Israel and Hezbollah successful confederate Lebanon continues to inflame tensions tensions successful the region. On Sunday,the equipped group Hezbollah killed an Israeli worker successful Deir Siryan village successful confederate Lebanon connected Sunday, according to Israel's military, which said it responded by sidesplitting the man responsible. Hezbollah's leader said Saturday the group would conflict connected until Israel withdraws from confederate Lebanon, according to a statement carried successful a pro-Hezbollah section media outlet. Another Lebanese media outlet reported that Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf called for an urgent gathering of a recently formed conflict power portion involving Iran, the United States and Lebanon.

Israel's subject main of staff, Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, warned of continued operations during a sojourn pinch troops successful the country's bluish separator region pinch Lebanon. "We are prepared to quickly resume violative operations successful some Lebanon and Iran if required," he said, according to Israeli media.

The ceasefire signed earlier this period did not see Iran aliases Hezbollah. Israel has said it will not retreat from confederate Lebanon until Hezbollah is disarmed. Hezbollah has rejected that demand.

Israeli soldiers are seen astatine a memorial tract connected the separator pinch Lebanon successful bluish Israel, Sunday, June 28, 2026. Ohad Zwigenberg/AP

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U.S. and Iran proceed strait dispute

The contiguous trigger for Sunday's attacks by Tehran was a caller information of U.S. action against Iran, arsenic precocious connected Saturday, U.S. Central Command said it had deed 10 Iranian subject targets. Those included surveillance infrastructure, connection systems, aerial defense sites, drone retention accommodation and minelayer capabilities. The U.S. subject said the cognition was successful consequence to an Iranian onslaught successful the strait of Hormuz connected a Panamanian-flagged tanker, the Kiku, connected Saturday. The alloy was carrying crude lipid for Qatar's state-run power company. Qatar has been a cardinal mediator betwixt Iran and the United States.

The Kiku onslaught was portion of a shape that began Thursday. A suspected Iranian drone deed a merchant alloy disconnected Oman. U.S. forces responded pinch subject action against Iranian sites connected Friday. Control complete the strait is astatine the bosom of the dispute. Iran insists it unsocial must govern the waterway, which erstwhile carried a 5th of the world's lipid and earthy gas.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi restated that position connected Sunday. "Any effort to found caller aliases abstracted arrangements from those presently being carried retired by the Islamic Republic of Iran will only lead to further complications, hold the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and summation the level of tension," he said.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps warned Sunday Iran could halt negotiations wholly if U.S. subject action continued, according to a societal media station by Iranian state-run media.

President Trump posted connected societal media precocious connected Saturday and accused Iran of violating the ceasefire. He warned location whitethorn travel a constituent wherever the U.S. whitethorn nary longer beryllium reasonable "and will beryllium forced to militarily complete the job," informing further that "If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will nary longer exist!"