\n Iran targeted American military facilities in the Middle East after the US launched more strikes on Iranian sites near the Strait of Hormuz. And in Lebanon, Israeli forces attacked a southern town, after Israel agreed to withdraw some troops from the area.\n <\/p>\n
\n A timeline of the recent escalation:\n <\/p>\n
\n Iran attacks a Singapore-flagged container ship<\/a> near the Strait of Hormuz. US President Donald Trump describes the move as a \u201cfoolish violation\u201d of the initial agreement to end the war.\n <\/p>\n \n The US military conducts strikes<\/a> around the Strait of Hormuz, targeting Iranian missile and drone storage locations and coastal radar sites.\n <\/p>\n \n The US detects \u201ca couple of drones\u201d<\/a> as Iran says it launched strikes on American military targets in the Middle East, but those drones didn\u2019t reach their target, a US official says.\n <\/p>\n \n Hours later, the US military conducts more strikes against Iranian targets<\/a> \u201cin direct response to continued Iranian aggression,\u201d according to the US Central Command.\n <\/p>\n \n Iran then launches missiles and drones at US facilities<\/a> in neighboring countries including Kuwait and Bahrain, Reuters reports the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as saying. There have been no US casualties or major damage<\/a> to the facilities, Reuters reports, citing a US official.\n <\/p>\n \n Meanwhile in Lebanon, airstrikes hit the southern town<\/a> of Nabatieh al-Fawqa, a day after Israel signed an agreement<\/a> to withdraw troops from some areas. The Israeli military said<\/a> on Saturday it killed Hezbollah militants in the Nabatieh area of southern Lebanon and dismantled a rocket launcher, according to a Telegram statement.\n <\/p>\n \n Why it matters: The attacks are straining a US-Iran agreement<\/a> signed just earlier this month. The agreement was meant to expand on the ceasefire and resume normal maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. Trump has threatened more military action<\/a> if Tehran continues to launch strikes. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps argued<\/a> that the US strikes violate the ceasefire and \u201cwill result in the complete halt of all diplomatic processes,\u201d reported Reuters.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran targeted American military facilities in the Middle East after the US launched more strikes on Iranian sites…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-730771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}