{"id":18085,"date":"2026-07-21T08:15:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/21\/iran-missile-attack-us-base-jordan-al-rukban\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T08:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:15:19","slug":"iran-missile-attack-us-base-jordan-al-rukban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/21\/iran-missile-attack-us-base-jordan-al-rukban\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Launches Missile Attack on US Military Base in Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed on Tuesday, July 21, that as part of its ongoing &#8220;Nasr 2&#8221; operation, a complex housing US military forces in the Al-Rukban area of Jordan was targeted in a missile strike, resulting in the deaths of several American soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the IRGC statement, the attack was carried out by the IRGC Aerospace Force as the twenty-fourth wave of this operation. The IRGC did not provide further details regarding the number of casualties or the specifics of the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The IRGC also accused the US Secretary of Defense of underreporting the death toll and described the fallen soldiers as &#8220;heroes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As of the time of this report, US officials have not independently commented on these allegations. The Al-Rukban area, located near the borders of Jordan and Syria, holds strategic importance and has been home to US and international coalition forces in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s IRGC claims missile attack on US military base in Jordan&#8217;s Al-Rukban area, alleging multiple American casualties amid ongoing Nasr 2 operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}