{"id":18489,"date":"2026-07-18T11:33:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T11:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=18489"},"modified":"2026-07-18T11:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T11:33:06","slug":"us-military-targets-iran-with-latest-wave-of-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=18489","title":{"rendered":"US military targets Iran with latest wave of strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!--(--><!--(--><!----><!--)--><!--(--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said Friday that U.S. forces had completed their latest round of strikes against Iran, marking the seventh consecutive night of military operations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--)--><!--(--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>&#8220;U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) hit surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure, underground weapons storage, and maritime capabilities,&#8221; CENTCOM said in a statement. &#8220;U.S. forces employed fighter aircraft, aerial drones and warships, in addition to other assets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--)--><!--(--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>CENTCOM said the latest strikes came as the U.S. continued enforcing a renewed naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--)--><!--(--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>&#8220;CENTCOM continues to hold Iran accountable at the Commander in Chief&#8217;s direction while fully enforcing a naval blockade against Iranian ports,&#8221; the military said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--)--><!--(--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>CENTCOM added that more than 50,000 U.S. service members continue to operate across the Middle East.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--)--><!--(--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Fox News Digital live blog offers additional coverage of the war against Iran.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--)--><!--)--><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said Friday that U.S. forces had completed their latest round of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}