Key events25m agoOpening summary: US says it is launching ninth night of strikes on IranThe Israeli military says sirens sounded a short time ago in the southern Israeli areas of Kfar Aza and Sa’ad but it had been determined to be from a “false identification”.The IDF posted the announcement on Telegram.The ⁠United Kingdom Maritime ⁠Trade Operations ⁠agency said ​it had received ⁠a report of ⁠an ​incident ‌8 nautical miles (14.8 ‌km) north-west ‌of Oman’s Kumzar, where information from a verified ‌source indicated that ​a vessel was on fire.UKMTO, cited by Reuters, ⁠said the cause ​of the ​fire ​had ​not ‌been ​verified.Opening summary: US says it is launching ninth night of strikes on IranHello and welcome to our live coverage of developments in the Middle East.The US military says it is beginning its ninth night of strikes on Iran, with an interim deal aimed at ending the war appearing to have all but collapsed.“The strikes will continue degrading Iranian military capabilities used to attack commercial vessels and civilian mariners transiting the strait of Hormuz,” US Central Command said on X on Sunday.The attacks on Sunday come after a US service member was killed in Iraq the previous day during a “controlled detonation” of a downed Iranian drone, according to the US military, and two American troops were killed in Jordan on Friday.An Iranian bridge linking Bandar Abbas and Kehuristan is seen on Sunday in Iran’s Hormozgan province after US strikes. Iranian authorities said the US carried out attacks on 95 locations across 12 cities over the previous 10 days. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty ImagesThe US military said carried out strikes against Iran on Saturday to “swiftly punish” the country’s Revolutionary Guard for the Jordan attack, while Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said the US would pay for trying to “escalate” the conflict.In other key developments: