After years on the front lines of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Iranian Shahed-136 drone is at the center of Tehran's retaliation against recent U.S. strikes.

The strikes follow several attacks on Amazon Web Services data centers, with two hit by drone strikes in the UAE and a third damaged in Bahrain. The strikes, which were retaliation for a bombing campaign by the US and Israel, have caused ongoing outages at Amazon's ME-CENTRAL-1 and ME-SOUTH-1 cloud regions.

After the attacks by the U.S. and Israel on Iran triggered a new war in the Middle East, Hezbollah launched missiles and drones into Israel Monday for the first time in over a year, and Israel has retaliated with bombardment of southern Lebanon and Beirut’s southern suburbs.

U.S. and Israeli military officials say launches from Iran have declined as their attacks have taken out ballistic missiles, launchers and drones. Israel’s Homefront Command announced it was easing restrictions that closed workplaces nationwide, which could reopen Thursday if there is a shelter nearby. Schools would remain closed.

Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert M. Marzan, 54, of Sacramento, Calif.

The distinctive buzz of the Iranian-designed drones has become a familiar sound in Ukraine over the past four years.

The United States and Israel demonstrated unprecedented coordination and delivered impressive blows against Iranian military capabilities in the early stages of the current conflict. Now, as Tehran lashes out against US forces and regional partners,