Every side of the story

A fragile diplomatic lull collapses into a fresh, self-described 'heavy wave' of US strikes on southern Iran.

Center coverage reported CENTCOM completing a heavy retaliatory wave on Iran after intercepting Iran's attack, with explosions at Bandar Abbas and near Kish, and framed it as the collapse of the days-long strike pause and nascent Hormuz diplomacy.

Trump casts the strikes as strong, justified retaliation for an Iranian surprise attack on US troops.

Right-leaning coverage emphasized Trump's vow to hit the regime 'very hard' and framed the wave as overwhelming, deserved retaliation for Iran's surprise missile attack on US forces in Jordan.

Iranian state media frames the exchange as a legitimate IRGC response to US aggression and casts the US strikes as illegal.

Iranian state outlets said the IRGC hit a US command center and airbase in Jordan in response to US 'aggression' and framed the subsequent US strikes across southern Iran as unlawful attacks that would be met with continued resistance.

The war widens as Iran's retaliation spills onto a neighboring Gulf state and a Chinese-owned site.

Center coverage reported Iran's renewed missile salvo at the US base in Jordan and a strike killing a worker at a Chinese company's building in Kuwait, framing it as a dangerous widening of the conflict beyond Iran's borders.

Israeli outlets foreground the spillover of Iranian fire onto Gulf states as evidence of Tehran's overreach.

Israeli coverage relayed Kuwait's report that an Iranian strike hit a Chinese company building and killed one person, situating it within Iran's broader retaliation after the US strikes.

Kuwait's government condemns a direct Iranian strike on its territory as aggression.

Kuwait's Defense Ministry said an Iranian attack struck a Chinese company's building in the country's north, killing a worker, and denounced it as 'Iranian aggression' against Kuwaiti soil.

A renewed Russian barrage kills civilians across Ukraine and prompts a Polish airspace probe.

Center coverage reported Russian strikes killing at least eight civilians and wounding dozens across Ukraine, noting Ukraine's interceptor shortage leaves it vulnerable to ballistic missiles as Poland investigated a reported cruise-missile incursion.

Ukrainian sources stress the scale of the assault and the mounting civilian casualty toll overnight.

Ukrainian coverage described a massive combined drone-and-missile assault overnight, reporting at least eight killed and more than 50 injured across multiple regions even as air defenses repelled dozens of attacks.