Kuwait Intercepts Iranian Missiles and Drones

Kuwait’s air defenses were fighting off what its military called enemy missile and drone attacks on Thursday, as Iran widened its retaliation against US allies in West Asia.

Iran targeted US bases in Kuwait, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region. The attacks followed Washington’s large-scale bombing of several sites across Iran on Tuesday.

“Kuwait’s air defenses are currently confronting enemy missile and drone attacks following Iran’s brutal aggression,” the Kuwaiti military said in a post on X.

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Kuwait’s air defenses are currently confronting enemy missile and drone attacks following Iran’s brutal aggression.

Iranian state television confirmed that Tehran had targeted US bases in Kuwait. It described the action as a response to what it called American crimes against the Iranian people. Iran’s anger intensified after the Iranian Red Crescent said a US strike on Tuesday killed four people, including a child, at a wedding in the south of the country and wounded more than 50 others.

Washington did not directly comment on the reported wedding attack. Tim Hawkins, a spokesman for the US Central Command, said US forces had never targeted civilians, unlike Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The latest round of fighting began when Washington attacked targets in Iran on Sunday, in what was described as the first known such assault in several weeks.

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US forces have never targeted civilians, unlike Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.