Iran launched seven ballistic missiles targeting Kuwait and Bahrain just hours after US forces struck Iranian radar sites and intercepted attack drones near the Strait of Hormuz, according to the US Central Command (CENTCOM). The US military said six of the missiles were intercepted midair and the seventh failed to reach its target. CENTCOM confirmed there were no American casualties and dismissed Iran’s claim of damaging the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain as false.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) stated that it attacked ‘enemy bases’ across the Middle East using aerospace missiles. The semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported that the strikes were carried out in response to what Iran described as US aggression near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, particularly around the Iranian city of Sirik and Qeshm Island.

The exchange marks a sharp escalation in military tensions between Iran and the United States in the Gulf region, with both sides issuing conflicting accounts of the attacks and their outcomes.