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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Mark Saunokonoko and agencies

US and Iran exchange strikes as Israel intensifies attacks on southern Lebanon

President Donald Trump speaks as Cabinet members sit around a meeting table at the White House
President Donald Trump has asserted that Iran is ‘negotiating on fumes’ and insisted that November’s US midterm elections won’t make him rush into a deal to end the nearly three-month-old conflict. Photograph: Win McNamee/Getty Images

The US has carried out new strikes inside Iran , targeting a military facility and downing Iranian attack drones, US officials said, which prompted an apparent Iranian retaliatory attack on an American airbase in Kuwait.

US Central Command forces shot down four Iranian one-way attack drones that posed a threat around the strait of Hormuz, according to US officials, who were not authorised to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

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