US, Iran trade new attacks amid talks: Here’s what we know

Washington and Tehran are attacking each other despite a ceasefire that came into effect on April 8.

United States President Donald Trump says he is close to achieving a “very good deal” with Iran, but Washington and Tehran have been engaged in a new exchange of fire, dimming hopes of finalising a deal to end the war.

Late on Sunday in a post on X, the US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said it struck Iranian military sites over the weekend, and on Monday, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it retaliated by targetting a US base in the Gulf region.

While a ceasefire has been in place between the US and Iran since April 8, the warring parties have continued to sporadically attack each others’ military assets.

Moreover, Iran’s de facto blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and a naval blockade of Iranian ports by the Trump administration has heightened tensions.

As diplomacy aimed at a more durable peace agreement between the two countries drags on, here’s what we know about the latest attacks between the US and Iran:

In its X post, CENTCOM said it carried out strikes on Iranian radar and drone sites in the city of Goruk and the island of Qeshm over the weekend.

“The measured and deliberate strikes occurred on Saturday and Sunday in response to aggressive Iranian actions that included the shootdown of a US MQ-1 drone that was operating over international waters,” the command responsible for US military operations in the Middle East said.

“US fighter aircraft swiftly responded by eliminating Iranian air defenses, a ground control station, and two one-way attack drones that posed clear threats to ships transiting regional waters,” CENTCOM added.

In response to Washington’s attacks, the IRGC said on Monday that it struck a US airbase that was used for an attack on a telecommunications tower in southern Iran, according to Iran’s semiofficial Fars News Agency.

“Following the aggression of the US army on a communication tower on Sirik Island in Hormozgan Province an hour ago, the IRGC Aerospace Force fighters targeted the airbase where the aggression originated and the predicted targets were destroyed,” the report said.

Separately, air defences in Kuwait, where a major US base is located, intercepted missile and drone attacks on Monday, the state news agency KUNA reported without providing details.

Moreover, in a post late on Sunday on Facebook, a senior official in the Iranian Kurdish party Komala accused the IRGC of attacking its base in northern Iraq’s Erbil province.

“As Iran’s Islamic Republic continues its attacks against Koma