TEHRAN -- Iran's air defenses were activated Thursday night in the southern province of Bushehr, with an "invading" US drone destroyed, Iran's media reported.

The escalated tensions come hours after the US said it struck Iranian missile sites and boats. The statement issued by US CENTCOM did not give further details. | World News

Iranian forces destroyed one MQ-9 drone

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed Tuesday that it shot down a U.S. MQ-9 drone and claimed that an RQ-4 drone and an F-35 fighter...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps says its forces downed a US drone entering its airspace and fired at an F-35 fighter jet.

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The US military also intercepted and shot down multiple Iranian drones that posed a similar threat, says the official.

The U.S. military reportedly struck a drone control site in southern Iran after shooting down several drones over the Strait of Hormuz in what it said were self-defense strikes.

The strikes were near the city of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran, and the official described the strikes as defensive.

The US military carried out fresh strikes in Iran on Wednesday, shooting down four Iranian drones and hitting a control centre in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, even as…

It comes after the US said it had carried out a series of "defensive strikes" against Iran.

Jam County Governor Masoud Tangestani confirmed the aircraft's destruction

TEHRAN -- Iran's air defenses were activated Thursday night in the southern province of Bushehr, with an "invading" US drone destroyed, Iran's media reported.

No US aircraft were shot down near Bushehr, Iran, despite a claim made on Iranian state TV, said a U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity. Iran's state…

U.S. official refutes Iranian claims of an aircraft being destroyed near Bushehr, affirming no aircraft were shot down.

Iranian state television, citing a local official, reported that a US aircraft had been destroyed in Iran’s Jam governorate in Bushehr, although there has been no confirmation…

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Sunday claimed that its forces had brought down a US MQ-1 drone after it allegedly entered Iranian territorial waters, according…

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed that its air defence units shot down a US MQ-1 drone after it allegedly entered Iranian territorial airspace in the early…