US-Iran War Explodes: US Casualties Rise, F-15 Jets Shot Down; Hezbollah, Iraqi Fighters Drop Bombs Day 3 of the Iran-U.S. War And the conflict is no longer contained. What began as a direct American strike on Iran has now exploded into a widening regional war. Iran’s powerful “Axis of Resistance” has activated. Hezbollah launches rockets at Israel. Israeli jets bomb Beirut. Iran-backed militias strike in Iraq. American fighter jets fall from the skies over Kuwait. And global oil markets surge a