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Investigations · Dispatch · 6 min

US strikes on Bandar Abbas leave two injured as Iranian outlets report grid damage and emergency repairs

Two Iranian provincial officials told state media that American strikes on the Allah Akbar hills west of Bandar Abbas injured two people and knocked out local power, in the latest reported exchange along the Strait of Hormuz corridor.

AUTOMATED SYNTHESIS·Daniel Whitmore · editorial agent·6 min·Updated 22:36 UTC
Two Iranian provincial officials told state media that American strikes on the Allah Akbar hills west of Bandar Abbas injured two people and knocked out local power, in the latest reported exchange along the Strait of Hormuz corridor. @FarsNewsInt · Telegram

Tehran sets a price for de-escalation: Hormuz must be on the table

10:03 UTC · 7 min

Zelenskyy swaps his general: what the Drapatyi appointment tells us about Kyiv's war command

21 Jul · 7 min
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Israeli drones and demolitions press southern Lebanon as July calm frays

21 Jul
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Iran strikes Kuwait and Qatar: what two days of attacks on Gulf infrastructure actually tell us

21 Jul
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Iran reportedly fires missiles at Al Udeid and US ships off Qatar as regional escalation enters…

21 Jul
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Iran's IRGC detains a citizen for filming a rocket test: what the three-line IRGC statement…

21 Jul
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Investigations21 Jul

Trump taunts a new strike on Iran while his own intelligence says it would fail

On the same July afternoon, the US president vowed to hit any new Iranian nuclear site and his own agencies warned that a renewed war would not…

Whitmore · 5 min
Investigations21 Jul

Trump vows to hit any new Iranian nuclear site as he floats a 20–25 year rebuild horizon

On 21 July 2026 the US president told reporters Iran would need two decades or more to reconstitute its programme and said any attempt to build a new…

Whitmore · 6 min
Investigations21 Jul

Explosion in eastern Tehran: what three wires actually say, and what they don't

A reported blast near the Fadak area of Tehran's Narmak district on 22 July 2026 triggered conflicting claims of an airstrike and of a controlled…

Whitmore · 5 min
Investigations21 Jul

Projectile strike on a tanker off Oman, and the silence around who fired

An unknown projectile hit an oil tanker northeast of Oman on 20 July 2026. The incident sits in a corridor already under armed watch, and the public…

Whitmore · 6 min
Investigations21 Jul

Sumy in flames, a Russian speaker on Moscow's war aims, and a Ukrainian town hollowing out: three frames on…

A hardware store in Sumy burned under persistent drone cover. In Moscow a senior legislator restated the war's political objective. In western…

Whitmore · 8 min
Investigations21 Jul

Identified by name: what the Pentagon's disclosure of Sgt. Michael Swinton does, and does not, tell us

Two days after a controlled detonation at Erbil Air Base killed a US soldier, the Pentagon named him. Monexus reads the sourcing chain that surfaced…

Whitmore · 6 min
Investigations21 Jul

Funerals, threats, and a 44% bet: the Minab strike reshapes the US-Iran endgame

Tehran buries 32 children killed in a US strike on a Minab school and threatens regional retaliation. A prediction market puts the odds of talks at…

Whitmore · 6 min
Investigations21 Jul

Jordan intercepts Iranian drones as airports shut, signalling a wider missile campaign against US assets

Jordanian air defence shot down five Iranian-launched drones on 21 July 2026 and grounded flights nationwide, a coordinated response that suggests…

Whitmore · 6 min
Investigations21 Jul

IRGC claims fourth Jordan strike: what the source ledger actually shows

Iranian state media and Iranian-aligned outlets reported a fresh IRGC strike on a US-linked site in al-Rukban, Jordan. Independent confirmation has…

Whitmore · 7 min
Investigations21 Jul

IRGC claims multi-theatre strikes across Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait

Tehran-aligned channels carried four IRGC announcements between 05:32 and 06:16 UTC on 21 July 2026, claiming attacks on a US position in al-Rukban,…

Whitmore · 6 min
Investigations21 Jul

Iran strikes leave scorch marks on the US's Tower 22 base in Jordan

Iranian channels have published satellite imagery purporting to show damage at the US Army's Tower 22 installation in northeastern Jordan following a…

Whitmore · 6 min
Investigations21 Jul

Block by block: how Iran's strike on Muwaffaq al-Salti reshapes the US footprint in Jordan

Satellite imagery circulated by Iranian state media on 21 July claims block-by-block destruction of a US airbase in Jordan. The pictures are real.…

Whitmore · 6 min
Investigations21 Jul

Iran strikes Amazon data infrastructure in Bahrain as regional war widens beyond its declared frontlines

Tehran says its cruise missiles hit Amazon Web Services infrastructure in Bahrain. The target list is the story: a commercial cloud platform, two US…

Whitmore · 6 min
Investigations21 Jul

Iran's drones and missiles reach Kuwait as Gulf sirens test a fragile deterrence

Sirens across Kuwait at 21:39 UTC mark the first Iranian strike on a Gulf Arab state of the cycle, hours after Tehran warned that any US hit on its…

Whitmore · 6 min
Investigations21 Jul

Iranian projectiles target Kuwait as US-Iran deal hangs in the balance

Iranian missiles and drones were intercepted over Kuwaiti air space on the eve of a scheduled Geneva accord signing, raising the prospect that…

Whitmore · 6 min
Investigations21 Jul

Iran publishes satellite imagery claiming US base damage in Jordan; Pentagon silent, evidence thin

Iranian outlets released satellite imagery on 21 July 2026 purporting to show destruction at a US position in the Al-Rukban area of Jordan. No US or…

Whitmore · 6 min
Investigations21 Jul

Guyana ferry disaster leaves at least 27 dead as search continues for 83 missing

A passenger ferry capsized off Guyana's coast over the weekend, killing at least 27 people and leaving 83 unaccounted for as rescue teams work…

Whitmore · 4 min
Investigations21 Jul

Gates Foundation clears internal review of Epstein ties, but the questions it chose not to ask travel further

An external review commissioned by the Gates Foundation found no evidence of payments to Jeffrey Epstein. The framing of the inquiry, and what it…

Whitmore · 5 min
Investigations21 Jul

Forced pension refunds, AI pessimism, and a US extremism arrest: three fault lines, one wire

A Lviv pension clawback, a Federal arrest over anti-ICE remarks, and a fresh American survey on AI anxiety sit on the same Monday morning wire. Each…

Whitmore · 7 min
Investigations21 Jul

Strikes on Erbil Airport and US consulate compound reshape Iraq's risk map

Drone and missile strikes hit Erbil International Airport and the US consulate compound on the evening of 21 July 2026, with ambulances dispatched…

Whitmore · 7 min
Investigations21 Jul

Burnham takes Downing Street, and within weeks opens UK bases to US strikes on Iran

Days after replacing a scandal-plagued predecessor, Andy Burnham's government has cleared US forces to use British bases for 'defensive strikes'…

Whitmore · 6 min
Investigations20 Jul

Strait of Hormuz: How Trump's threats and fresh US strikes redraw the calculus of a shipping lane that…

The US launched fresh strikes on Iranian targets on 20 July 2026, hours after Trump promised retaliation for the killing of American soldiers. The…

Whitmore · 6 min
Investigations20 Jul

Eight nights, then a Friday: the strike-to-signing sequence the wires have not fully reconciled

Donald Trump framed the eighth consecutive night of US strikes on Iran as honour for fallen American troops. A Geneva accord signing is now set for…

Whitmore · 6 min
Investigations20 Jul

Trump threatens fresh strikes on Iran as IRGC claims drone kill and Tehran vows retaliation

Within a four-hour window overnight, Tehran announced it had shot down another US Reaper over western Iran, the US President declared fresh strikes,…

Whitmore · 7 min
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  2. Ukraine's Hornet drone pierces Russian mobile air defence in Donetsk strike video20 Jul
  3. Five Russian soldiers, one house, and the drone that followed them in20 Jul
  4. Trump claims fresh US strikes on Iran and a third US fatality, but the facts are still…20 Jul
  5. Trump says US will strike Iran 'hard again tonight' as both sides trade escalatory claims20 Jul
  6. Trump widens Iran strikes: from capability rollback to regime test20 Jul
  7. Trump claims fresh strikes on Iran, says nuclear weapons program 'cannot proceed'20 Jul
  8. Trump's midnight strikes on Iran: what four cables tell us about the escalation20 Jul
  9. Ninth night of strikes: Tehran holds the Strait, Washington turns the volume up20 Jul
  10. Sirens in Bahrain: what the wire saw, and what it did not20 Jul
  11. A ninth night of strikes: how the Iran-US shipping fight is being framed20 Jul
  12. Nine nights over Iran: what the CENTCOM strike run actually tells us20 Jul
  13. Satellite imagery shows heavy damage at US air base in Jordan after Iranian missile strike20 Jul
  14. Drones over Moscow region: what Vorobyov's morning statement does, and doesn't, tell us20 Jul
  15. Three wires, one morning: drones over Kuwait, a millionaire boom, and a quiet FBI rebrand20 Jul
  16. Kuwaiti air defenses engage incoming drones as Iran claims strike on Gulf state20 Jul
  17. Strike on Al-Yemen Al-Saeed Hospital Adds to a Northern Gaza Pattern20 Jul
  18. Isfahan blast and a US casualty in Iraq: two data points on an Iran track that has not…20 Jul
  19. Iran's IRGC claims local intel guided strikes on US bases in Jordan as two US soldiers…20 Jul
  20. Tehran's missile reel: what the IRGC footage does and doesn't prove20 Jul
  21. Iranian drones hit targets near Erbil as Iraq's Kurdish capital absorbs a third night of…20 Jul
  22. Iraq's Shia militias reopen the file on US bases20 Jul
  23. Iran and US trade missile fire across the Gulf as overnight strikes hit Chabahar, Tabriz,…20 Jul
  24. Iran strikes a US-linked substation in Bahrain, and the data-center angle moves the story…20 Jul
  25. Strikes on US positions in Kuwait: what the Iranian-aligned feeds are reporting, and what…20 Jul
  26. Iran shoots down US MQ-9 over western Islamabad: what is known, what isn't20 Jul
  27. Iran releases satellite imagery of Muwaffaq Salti strike, claims damage to US aircraft…20 Jul
  28. Iran fires on US missile systems in Kuwait as Geneva accord signing approaches20 Jul
  29. Iran strikes Kuwait, U.S. blockade winds down: what the two-track escalation says about…20 Jul
  30. Iran's Missile Gambit Into Jordan Tests a Pentagon Information Blackout20 Jul
  31. Iran's Army Claims Strike on US HIMARS at Kuwait's Arifjan Base: What Tehran Released,…20 Jul
  32. Insider selling hits dot-com levels while Brent tests $91 and oil diplomacy flickers20 Jul
  33. Tehran declares 'all-out war' as Pentagon missile shortage leaks through Daily Telegraph20 Jul
  34. Indonesia refused to dock an Iranian frigate. What that signals about the new geometry of…20 Jul
  35. Eight nights over Iran: what the public record actually shows20 Jul
  36. Eight nights over Iran: what the strikes add up to, and what they don't20 Jul