Iran has warned it will carry out “even more severe and widespread attacks” if the US military continues to strike the country, in response to the alleged downing an American helicopter.
“The criminal US military should know that if aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran is repeated, even more severe and widespread attacks will be carried out against the designated target bank in the region,” the Iranian army said.
The warning came as Tehran’s forces fired at least four ballistic missiles and several drones at US bases in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said its Aerospace Force launched long-range missiles at an airbase in Jordan, which hosts US military personnel. The Guard said the attack damaged critical command centres and F-35 fighter jet hangars.
The Kuwaiti army said its air defence systems were “intercepting hostile aerial targets”, while Bahrain, for the second time on Wednesday morning, sounded air raid sirens.
Donald Trump’s military launched retaliatory strikes against Iran, hitting its air defence infrastructure, after the US president accused the country of shooting down an American Apache helicopter.
Two US pilots were rescued, uninjured, from the vital waterway after the $40m gunship went down, US officials said.
Recap: Trump says helicopter incident ‘not a big deal’
We’ve heard some mixed messages from the White House regarding the Apache heklicopter crash near the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump told The Wall Street Journal during a phone call on Tuesday that the helicopter incident “wasn’t a big deal” and stressed that “the pilot is fine”.
But the US president also said a response would be necessary. Speaking to ABC News on Tuesday, he said: “I believe the response should be very strong, very powerful, and that’s what this one is.”
The episode could well add further strain to efforts to broker a peace deal to end the wider Middle East war and reopen Hormuz.
Alex Croft10 June 2026 08:30
Cargo ship exchanges fire with armed boat off Yemen coast, UKMTO says
A cargo vessel reported being approached by a small craft carrying six armed people about 88 nautical miles southwest of Yemen’s Balhaf on Wednesday, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said.
There was an exchange of fire between the small craft and the vessel’s armed security team, and the craft then turned away, UKMTO added.
Alex Croft10 June 2026 07:45
Inflation likely reached 3-year high last month as Iran war spikes gas prices
Consumer prices probably jumped in May for the third straight month, heightening concerns for the inflation fighters at the Federal Reserve and underscoring the threat that rising costs pose for the Trump administration as midterm elections near.
Inflation is expected to reach 4.2 per cent in May from a year earlier when the Labor Department reports last month’s figures, according to a survey of economists by data provider FactSet.
The annual increase would be up from the 3.8 per cent reading in April.
On a monthly basis, prices are forecast to have risen a hefty 0.5 per cent, slightly below the 0.6 per cent increase in April.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar10 June 2026 07:10
Iran’s foreign minister calls Saudi and Turkish counterparts
Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi held separate phone calls with his Turkish and Saudi counterparts to discuss regional developments after the US struck southern Iran.
Araghchi condemned the US strikes in the calls and said they violated Iran’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity, according to reports.
It was not clear whether the calls took place before or after Iran launched its own strikes on US bases in Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar10 June 2026 07:00
Israel says it struck Hezbollah base in Lebanon
The Israeli military this morning said that it had struck Hezbollah infrastructure in Tyre and other parts of south Lebanon.
It claimed to have attacked six sites used by the group in Tyre to advance attacks on Israeli civilians.
The military added that it attacked armed rocket launchers, along with Hezbollah operatives in areas where the Israeli army was operating.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar10 June 2026 06:47
Israeli settlers look at a fallen rocket in the outskirts of occupied West Bank
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar10 June 2026 06:26
Iran says Gulf nations have responsibility to prevent US strikes
The Iranian foreign ministry has warned its neighbours that the Gulf has a “legal and moral responsibility” to prevent US and Israeli strikes after Tehran and Donald Trump’s forces traded strikes.
The ministry “reiterated the legal and moral responsibility of all countries in the region (especially those located along the southern shores of the Persian Gulf) to prevent the US military and Israel from using their territory or facilities to plan, organise, execute, or support hostile actions against Iran”.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar10 June 2026 06:11
Vance claims US ‘very close’ to Iran deal
Vice president JD Vance has claimed that the US was “very close” to a deal that would address Iran’s nuclear programme “for the long term”.
“I think we’re going to know a lot before the [November] midterm elections,” he told CBS News before Donald Trump launched retaliatory attacks on Iran.
“Look, I think that the deal could happen in the next week, but the deal could also happen months from now.”
He said: “Right now, I feel that we are in a position to get a deal that is good for the United States economically and that really does deal with the Iranian nuclear program, not just now, not just while Donald Trump is president, but for the long term, to where my kids can say when they’re adults, ‘Iran is not going to have a nuclear weapon’.”
“That’s the goal of the policy. And I think we’re very close to achieving that goal. But we still got some wood to chop. We’re going to keep doing it,” he added.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar10 June 2026 05:50
US military says it struck 20 Iranian targets
A US military official said Donald Trump’s troops have struck 20 Iranian targets in an attack that triggered retaliatory strikes on US bases in the Middle East.
The Iranian strikes, which included attacks in Kuwait and Bahrain, came after the US military said on X it had targeted Iranian air defence, ground control stations and surveillance radar sites near the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump said the strikes were in response to Iran downing a US Apache helicopter patrolling the Strait. Two crew members escaped the incident unharmed.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar10 June 2026 05:37
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