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US official says US struck Iranian targets on Qeshm Island; Iran and Israel dispute account

Titles and summaries are AI-extracted from news reporting; every source is linked below. Event id d35f0332-73e9-4b99-b854-8f78db6e595f.

Where
Qeshm and Bandar Abbasresolved to locality26.950, 56.269
When
Occurrence date not stated by reportingFirst reported 2026-11-02 · last update 2026-11-03
Sourcing
183 reports183 reports across 146 outlets · independence not established
How far this got
localizednamed facility unresolvedOptical coverageSub-metre commercial imagery was recommended; Sentinel-2 is the closest we carry at 10 m, so small objects will not resolve.

Summary

A US official says US forces carried out limited defensive strikes on Iranian targets on Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, in response to a surface-to-air missile fired at a US aircraft; the strikes were not publicly announced. The US describes them as defensive and not the start of a wider campaign. Reports say the US hit naval facilities and an underground missile site. Iranian state media and IRNA reported explosions on Qeshm Island, Hengam and near Bandar Abbas. Iranian officials, including parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and the IRGC, have made statements about the incident and claimed to have downed US drones, and Israel's Danny Danon and a US military source have denied the strikes occurred. The Wall Street Journal has not confirmed the strikes, and the reports do not agree on the details. Diplomatic talks are continuing, with Qatar and Oman involved.

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What remains unresolved

  • named facility unresolved

Timeline

98 recorded change(s). The ledger starts when this event was first folded: the initial observation is not recorded as a change, so an empty timeline means nothing has moved since, not that nothing is known.

  • 2026-11-03member countour measurement182 → 183reports joined

97 more change(s) — the values are part of the event detail on paid plans.

Sources

Grouped by outlet. Syndication is not collapsed, so several outlets can carry one wire story — the count is breadth of carriage, not independent confirmation.

184 reports in all; the full list with the facts taken from each is part of the event detail on Pro.

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298 related event(s) and 14 place(s) or facilities — the same facility, place, actor or campaign. Part of the event detail on Pro.

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