Raid · June 22, 2025 · Central Iran (Qom Province) Theater

Seven B-2 Spirit bombers flew from Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, as part of Operation Midnight Hammer. The strike package dropped GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators on Fordow and Natanz. The Pentagon said Iran did not fire on the package; public reporting did not establish a reliable site casualty count.

Raid · June 22, 2025 · Central Iran (Isfahan Province) Theater

B-2 bombers dropped GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators on the underground Natanz facility during Operation Midnight Hammer. The official briefing did not describe the B-52, F-15E, and surface-ship combination previously claimed here.

Raid · June 22, 2025 · Central Iran (Isfahan Province) Theater

A United States guided-missile submarine launched more than two dozen Tomahawk land-attack missiles against infrastructure at Isfahan as part of Operation Midnight Hammer. The IAEA reported no increase in off-site radiation levels and did not provide a casualty count.

Raid · June 23, 2025 · Persian Gulf / Middle East Theater

Iran launched ballistic missiles at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar after giving advance indications that reduced the risk of casualties. Qatar and the United States reported the attack was intercepted and caused no casualties. The previous account of deaths at multiple bases was false.

Campaign · February 28 – April 8, 2026 · Iran — nationwide Theater

Authorized by President Trump on February 27, 2026, and opening at roughly 9:45 a.m. Iran Standard Time on February 28 — during Ramadan — Operation Epic Fury was a joint US–Israeli air campaign on a scale the region had never seen. The Israeli Air Force called its share the largest combat sortie in its history: some 500 targets struck and more than 1,200 bombs dropped in the first twenty-four hours. Strikes ranged across Tehran, Isfahan, Qom, Karaj, Kermanshah, Tabriz, and Bushehr, hitting leadership, nuclear and missile infrastructure, air defenses, and naval assets. The campaign followed the largest US military buildup in the region since 2003 and the collapse of nuclear negotiations, against a backdrop of Iranian security forces killing anti-government protesters in January.

Assassination attempt · February 28, 2026 · Tehran Theater

The opening strikes killed Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader since 1989, along with other political and military figures. Khamenei was the country’s highest authority but not its formal head of state.

Campaign · March 1 – 6, 2026 · Israel Theater

Iran's Revolutionary Guard answered within hours, naming its response Operation True Promise IV — the fourth in a series of direct Iranian strikes on Israel that had begun in 2024. Waves of ballistic missiles and drones struck Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Israeli military facilities. Unlike the largely telegraphed exchanges of 2024, these were sustained and unannounced, and Israeli air defenses — layered but finite — were saturated repeatedly over several days. Israel recorded 39 military and contractor deaths and 31 civilian deaths across the war, with 7,834 injured.

Campaign · March 3 – 8, 2026 · Persian Gulf — Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iraq Theater

Iran deliberately widened the war to the states hosting American forces. On March 3 it struck Doha, hit the US embassy in Riyadh, attacked cloud infrastructure across the Gulf, and set fire to the UAE's Fujairah Oil Industry Zone. Strikes reached Manama, Kuwait International Airport, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh and Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, and Erbil International Airport and the US Consulate General in Erbil. The US Fifth Fleet's home in Bahrain was among the targets. Tehran threatened to hit every economic hub in the Middle East if the strikes on Iran continued. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Kuwait subsequently launched strikes of their own against Iranian targets — Gulf Arab states entering open war with Iran for the first time.

Campaign · March 4 – April 17, 2026 · Strait of Hormuz Theater

Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz on March 4 during the regional war, disrupting energy shipping. After a ceasefire began in April, Iran announced on April 17 that the strait was fully open for the remainder of the ceasefire. The previous end date of June 17 was incorrect.

Campaign · April 2026 · Lebanon Theater

A two-week ceasefire that began on April 8, 2026, broke down when Israel struck targets in Lebanon, reopening the front against Hezbollah. Already shattered by the 2024 decapitation of its leadership and stripped of its Syrian resupply route by Assad's fall in December 2024, Hezbollah entered the 2026 war a fraction of the force it had been — and lost more than a thousand fighters. Negotiations in Islamabad on April 12–13 failed to restore the ceasefire, and the US imposed its naval blockade of Iranian ports in the aftermath.

Political event · June 15–17, 2026 · Islamabad, Pakistan Theater

The United States and Iran reached an agreement on June 15, followed by a memorandum of understanding signed in Islamabad on June 17. The framework sought to sustain a cessation of hostilities and continue negotiations; it should not be embellished as a personally signed heads-of-state accord without evidence.

Campaign · July 7–25, 2026 · Persian Gulf and Iran Theater

Renewed attacks in late June and July threatened the ceasefire and negotiating process. UN officials described serious escalation and called for restraint. Reported strikes paused again around July 25 to permit diplomacy, so the event should not be labeled an uninterrupted return to full-scale war through the present.

Campaign · September 1–7, 2026 · Persian Gulf — Strait of Hormuz, Kharg Island, Jask Theater

After a month-long lull following the July pause, the IRGC launched ballistic missiles at a US aircraft carrier and destroyer patrolling the Gulf. Both ships evaded without casualties. CENTCOM retaliated on September 5 by permanently disabling the IRGC crude oil carriers M/T Downy off Kharg Island and M/T Stark 1 near Jask, and completely destroying the unladen tanker M/T Kylo. CENTCOM described the vessels as part of a multibillion-dollar shadow network funding the IRGC and its regional proxies. Iran claimed retaliatory strikes against US-linked vessels.