Iran's IRGC says shot down U.S. MQ-9 Reaper in Iranian airspace

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Tuesday its air defense forces have shot down an MQ-9 Reaper drone in the country's airspace.

In a statement posted on its official news outlet Sepah News, the IRGC warned that it reserves the "legitimate and definitive" right to respond to any violation of the ceasefire reached last month between Tehran and Washington by the "aggressive" U.S. army.

The IRGC said its air defense forces have also detected and tracked an RQ-4 Global Hawk surveillance aircraft and an invading F-35 fighter jet, "which had entered Iran's airspace in continuation of the terrorist U.S. army's interventionist adventurism in the region and aggressive behaviors," and forced them to flee by shooting at them.

Although the IRGC did not disclose the date of the clashes, its statement came one day after the U.S. Central Command said its military had struck missile launch sites and mine-laying boats in southern Iran on Monday.

Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported several explosions Monday night in the country's southern port city of Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan province, adding that similar sounds were heard concurrently in the Gulf near the counties of Sirik and Jask in the same province.

Iran and the United States reached a ceasefire on April 8 after 40 days of fighting. Following the truce, they held one round of peace talks in Islamabad on April 11 and 12, which failed to yield an agreement.

Over the past weeks, the two sides reportedly exchanged several proposed plans outlining conditions for peace through Pakistan's mediation.

Iran's IRGC says shot down U.S. MQ-9 Reaper in Iranian airspace

Iran's IRGC says shot down U.S. MQ-9 Reaper in Iranian airspace

Gaza's health authorities said Sunday that since a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel took effect in October 2025, the cumulative death toll has risen to 1,551, with 5,573 wounded.

That brings the total since the outbreak of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Oct. 7, 2023, to 74,544 dead and 175,692 injured.

At least seven Palestinians were killed on Sunday in a series of Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian medical and security sources.

In western Gaza City, medical sources at Al-Shifa Hospital said that the hospital received three bodies after an Israeli airstrike targeting the campus of the Islamic University, where buildings were sheltering displaced people.

Security sources said an Israeli drone first targeted the entrance to one campus building, wounding five people, one critically, then returned hours later and struck the same location, killing three.

In northern Gaza City, one Palestinian was killed and three others, including a child, were wounded in an Israeli drone strike near Hamad Hospital, according to medical sources at Al-Shifa Hospital.

In the southern Gaza Strip, Nasser Medical Complex said in a statement that two Palestinians were killed and five others wounded in an Israeli airstrike targeting the coastal area of al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis.

In the central Gaza Strip, Al-Aqsa Hospital said one Palestinian was killed in an Israeli drone strike in Deir al-Balah.

The Israeli military has not commented on the reported strikes.

Over 1,550 killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza since ceasefire takes effect