On 27 May 2026, Iran fired four one-way attack drones at a US Navy ship and a commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz area. US forces shot down the drones and struck an Iranian drone control station near Bandar Abbas before it could launch a fifth drone, the Wall Street Journal reported on 28 May 2026. Reuters reported that US officials described the strikes as defensive.
Efforts Categories: US Military Force against Iran in the Strait of Hormuz (2026); Iran’s Military Force against the US and others in the waters of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz (2026)
On 27 May 2026, Israel killed Hamas’s newly appointed military chief Mohammed Odeh in a Gaza airstrike, less than two weeks after killing his predecessor.
Efforts Category: Israel’s Military Force against Hamas (2025-2026, period without ground operations)
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