By Kanishka Singh and Jasper WardWASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Wednesday it completed its latest wave of strikes on Iran, which lasted two hours and hit dozens of targets, with Washington casting the strikes as a "powerful response" to Iranian missiles launched towards U.S. forces in the Middle East a day earlier.The U.S. military said on Tuesday it intercepted multiple ballistic missiles launched by Iran towards U.S. forces in what Washington called "an attempted surprise attack" by Tehran. Iran confirmed it had fired on U.S. bases in Jordan.

Iran fired a barrage of missiles at U.S. forces in Jordan after a pause in hostilities, though the U.S. claimed to have intercepted them.

WASHINGTON, United States: The US military said Tuesday it had intercepted multiple missiles launched by Iran, in the first flareup in violence in several days. “At 5:45 p.m. ET…