At a glance
The US launched its heaviest bombing rate against Iran since the war began, with Iran retaliating with strikes on US bases in Kuwait and the Gulf. Both sides are exchanging fire across the region as a ceasefire collapses.
The US ramped up bombing runs against Iranian targets while Iran responded with strikes on American bases in Kuwait and across the Gulf region. Both sides are now in a sustained exchange rather than isolated incidents—each strike triggers a counterstrike, with no off-ramps visible. The pattern has held for six straight days, suggesting neither side is backing down or using diplomatic channels to cool things off.
Direct military exchanges between the US and Iran have been rare in the past two decades. What usually happens is proxy warfare—militias, drones, cyber operations—with plausible deniability built in. This is different. Named actors, named bases, acknowledged strikes. When a ceasefire collapses into open combat between two countries with advanced militaries, the risk calculus changes fast. Mistakes, miscalculations, or a single hit on the wrong target can spiral quickly.
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