Arabic version: الولايات المتحدة تشن الليلة الثامنة من الضربات على إيران

The United States launched a new wave of strikes on Iran that reached an eighth consecutive night, following Iranian strikes in Jordan that killed two American soldiers, Al Jazeera reported. The outlet described the strikes as continuing into an eighth straight night of operations and linked them temporally to the deaths of the two service members in Jordan.

According to Al Jazeera, the US strikes were carried out after the fatalities of two American service members caused by Iranian strikes in Jordan. The report states the renewed wave of US bombing occurred following those deaths.

President Donald Trump characterized the action as “swift punishment,” a phrase attributed to him in the Al Jazeera report.

The coverage is credited to Al Jazeera reporter Heidi Zhou-Castro and was published on 19 Jul 2026. The report frames the events as a sequence of strikes by the US on Iran continuing for an eighth consecutive night after the earlier Iranian attacks that resulted in the deaths of two US soldiers.

The article notes the temporal sequence—Iranian strikes in Jordan that killed two American soldiers, followed by a new wave of US strikes on Iran continuing into an eighth night—without additional operational details or further casualty figures in the text provided.

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