US Israel Iran War News Live Updates: Trump says pilots are fine after US helicopter crashes near Strait of Hormuz

A man looks at the wreckage of an Iranian missile that landed near the West Bank city of Jericho Monday, June 8. (AP photo)

US-Israel-Iran War News Live Updates: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards struck US bases in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan in the early hours of Wednesday, June 10, 2026, claiming 21 American targets hit and four destroyed. IRGC naval forces launched drones on the US Fifth Fleet headquarters in Manama at 2:30 a.m. local time, triggering missile sirens. Long-range missiles struck the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base near Al-Azraq, Jordan, where the IRGC claims it destroyed F-35 hangars and a command-and-control centre, while drones also targeted the Ali Al Salem airbase in Kuwait, with Kuwaiti air defences engaging.

Iran also claims to have downed a US MQ-9 drone over Jam, and warned of a “crushing and decisive” response to any further American action. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted on X: “Our Powerful Armed Forces will leave no attack or threat unanswered.”

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US strikes on Iran: The Iranian retaliation followed US strikes on Tuesday evening (June 9) on Iranian air defence, ground control and surveillance radar sites near the Strait of Hormuz, which CENTCOM called “a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression.” Blasts hit Bandar Abbas, Qeshm, Jask and Sirik, with the IRGC saying a communications tower in Sirik and two water reservoirs in the Bamani district were damaged. The strikes were ordered by President Donald Trump after he blamed Iran for downing a US Army Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday night, June 8.

Iran downs US Apache helicopter: Trump confirmed on Truth Social that Iran had downed the “highly sophisticated” Apache, saying the US “must, of necessity, respond.” Both pilots were rescued by a Saronic Technologies Corsair drone boat, the first publicly known use of an unmanned boat by the US military to recover personnel, operated by the Navy’s Task Force 59. A US official told Axios an Iranian drone hit the Apache, though the intentionality remains unclear. The shootdown came after Israel and Iran exchanged direct strikes on Monday for the first time since the April 7 ceasefire, with Israeli airstrikes targeting western and central Iran, including the Karun Mahshahr Petrochemical Company in Khuzestan, and Iran firing a missile salvo at northern Israel. For India, which sources 65-70 per cent of its crude through the Strait of Hormuz and has ~1.35 million nationals across Bahrain and Kuwait, the escalation has put fresh pressure on oil prices and diaspora security.

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