This page is a running timeline of the 2026 US–Iran conflict — how it started, the two ceasefires it has already burned through, and what's happening right now. We update it as events move; the "Updated" date at the top tells you how fresh it is. * Where things stand (July 10, 2026): the shooting is back. After a June memorandum that was supposed to formally end the war within 60 days, the US resumed large-scale strikes on July 8 and Iran answered with drones and ballistic missiles across the Gulf. Trump says the ceasefire is over; he also says talks will continue. Both of those things are currently true at once, which tells you most of what you need to know about this war. * The full timeline: - February 28, 2026 — The US and Israel launch massive airstrikes on Iran, killing Iran's supreme leader and other senior officials and destroying military and government targets. Iran retaliates with missiles and drones against Israel, US bases and US-allied states — and closes the Strait of Hormuz, choking a fifth of the world's oil trade. - March 2026 — Fighting continues for over five weeks. Global shipping reroutes around the Gulf; flights across the Middle East are disrupted. - April 7–8, 2026 — A first ceasefire is agreed between the US, Iran and Israel. Washington and Israel assert it does not cover Lebanon; Israel launches its largest strikes of the war against Hezbollah targets there, killing at least 357 people. - April 12, 2026 — The Islamabad Talks between the US and Iran collapse. The conflict settles into brinkmanship over access to the Strait of Hormuz. - June 14–17, 2026 — Mediators announce a memorandum of understanding intended to formally end the war within 60 days. Trump signs it at the Palace of Versailles — during dinner with Emmanuel Macron after the G7 summit — and Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian signs on his side. - Early July 2026 — The deal's soft spot gives way. Point 5 of the memorandum says Iran will "make arrangements… for the safe passage of commercial vessels" and will engage with Oman "to define the future administration" of the strait. Iran reads that as Iran administering passage; Washington reads it as Iran stepping back. Iranian forces fire on vessels that don't comply with their directives. - July 8, 2026 — The US strikes roughly 90 sites across southern Iran. CENTCOM says the operation is meant "to further degrade Iran's ability to attack commercial shipping and innocent civil mariners in the Strait of Hormuz." - July 8–9, 2026 (overnight) — Explosions are reported around Bushehr — home to an Iranian nuclear power plant, where a provincial official says a US projectile hit the facility's perimeter area — and in Konarak, Bandar Abbas and other southern cities. In the north, the Aq Taqeh Khan railway bridge in Golestan province is hit, per Iranian media: it sits on the rail line linking Tehran's trade to China and Russia. - July 9, 2026 — Iran's military says it launched one-way attack drones at sites in Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain, and the IRGC claims 10 ballistic missiles were fired at a US command-and-control center and the Al-Azraq air base in Jordan. Iranian officials put the two-day toll from US strikes at 14 killed and 78 injured across five provinces. - July 10, 2026 — Trump says the US has agreed to continue talks with Iran, while confirming Washington has told Tehran the ceasefire is no longer in effect. * Why the strait keeps breaking the deals: every pause in this war has died on the same rock. The Strait of Hormuz is the leverage Iran held onto after losing its command structure in February — and "who administers safe passage" is not a detail either side treats as negotiable. Until that clause has one meaning instead of two, expect every ceasefire to have an asterisk. * A note on sourcing: casualty figures and strike claims inside Iran come from Iranian officials and state-linked media and are labeled as such; US strike descriptions come from CENTCOM statements. Where the two sides' accounts differ, we say who's claiming what.