US, Iran trade strikes as fears mount over wider return to hostilities
Motorists ride past a billboard depicting U.S. President Donald Trump inside a catering container, installed on a building along a street in downtown of Tehran on August 31, 2026. (AFP Photo)
Iran launched a wave of attacks on U.S. sites across the Middle East on Sept. 2, as violence surged after an extensive American bombardment and the deaths of four people at an Iranian wedding party.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards announced attacks on U.S. bases in Jordan, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain and Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, in the six-month conflict’s heaviest exchange in weeks.
U.S. President Donald Trump had warned earlier of “much harder and higher” attacks if Iran retaliated to the U.S. strikes, which Iran’s military and state media said killed 18 people.
