The U.S. military carried out strikes on Iran on Tuesday after President Trump blamed Tehran for bringing down a U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz, a major shipping lane off Oman. Trump said the two crew members were safe and uninjured, and U.S. Central Command said the operation began at 5 p.m. ET at his direction as “self-defense strikes” and a “proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression”. CENTCOM later said U.S. Air Force and Navy fighter jets struck ...

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