US military says latest strikes on Iran last two hours

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.



President Donald Trump said after the missiles were intercepted that U.S. forces would retaliate. "We're going to hit them very hard," he said.



The U.S. Central Command described the latest strikes on X as "a powerful response to yesterday's attempted Iranian attacks on U.S. forces based in the Middle East."



The Central Command said the American strikes began at 8 p.m. ET on Wednesday and ended at 10 p.m.