CENTCOM said it struck "dozens" of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets inside Iran in an operation that ran from 0000 to 0200 GMT, describing the target set as military command centres, missile and drone facilities, coastal surveillance and defence sites and maritime capabilities, with the stated aim of reducing threats to American forces, commercial shipping and neighbouring Gulf states. Iranian state media reported explosions across the south — Bandar Abbas, the Gulf islands of Qeshm and Kish, three cities in Bushehr province, the outskirts of Kazerun in Fars, and locations in Khuzestan. These were the first strikes in several days to hit Iranian territory directly, and they answered the ballistic missile attack on US forces logged on Day 152.

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A missile struck a residential home in the Chah Tangu neighbourhood of Qeshm Island, killing a couple and their two-year-old child according to Iranian state media. State broadcaster IRIB published footage of rescue operations showing people working through the rubble; the provincial crisis management director said two children had been pulled out and transferred to hospital while teams searched for three other family members. CNN’s analysis found the footage had not previously appeared online. Qeshm is the largest island in the Persian Gulf and sits directly beside the Strait of Hormuz. Ledger note: this tracker logged four separate Qeshm entries across the day’s ingestion windows, all referring to this single incident — the casualty count is three, not the sum of those entries.

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The IRGC pledged to hit back against the "aggressor", and by Thursday morning suspected Iranian strikes had reached two more Gulf partners. In Kuwait City a drone attack on a building belonging to a Chinese company killed one worker. Jordan intercepted five missiles fired from Iran, following the pattern of the previous day. Tehran stated that the Strait of Hormuz remains closed and warned that the aggressor would be punished.

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A drone struck a US-owned gas storage tanker at the Mediterranean port of Damietta, along with a second vessel — the first time Egypt has been hit in this war. It moves the maritime conflict out of the Gulf and Red Sea entirely and onto the Mediterranean coast, past the Suez transit that the Bab el-Mandeb blockade was already squeezing. Alongside it, Saudi Arabia announced a maritime defence alliance to protect shipping corridors, and Washington issued a further sanctions round designating ten entities and eight tankers.

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Funerals were held for Popular Mobilization Forces fighters killed in the joint US-Saudi strikes logged on Day 152, with this tracker recording roughly twenty killed at the militia sites around Baghdad. Analysts quoted in coverage of the operation warned that Riyadh’s entry into offensive action against Iran-backed militias has pushed the region into territory without precedent in this conflict.

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Israeli strikes hit residential targets across the Gaza Strip, killing at least four people including children, with buildings left burning in Gaza City and the Shati refugee camp. In Lebanon, drone strikes continued around Nabatieh and southern border areas. Logged as secondary theater: outside the Iran front’s command chain, inside the war’s regional pressure map.

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Tracker status holds at WAR RESUMED. The exchange is now fully re-established and running faster than before the pause: a US wave inside Iran answered within hours by Iranian strikes on Kuwait and Jordan, with civilian deaths on both sides of the ledger. The war’s geography widened again — Egypt joins Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Lebanon and the Caspian as places where this conflict has drawn blood or damage. Hormuz stays closed by Iranian declaration, the Bab el-Mandeb blockade holds, and no ceasefire track is active: the 10-day mediator proposal remains untaken and Tehran has rejected direct talks.