by Reuters
Kuwait said its armed forces had engaged with a cruise missile, three ballistic missiles and 10 drones in its airspace, and that one person had been injured from falling shrapnel.
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Sirens sounded across the Middle East as Iran launched retaliatory strikes on US assets in the Gulf Region on Thursday.
Iran's air force scrambled fighter jets to "secure the skies over the funeral procession" of the former supreme leader Ali Khamenei in Mashhad, the regime-affiliated Fars news agency said.
The retaliatory strikes come after the US struck around 90 sites overnight from Wednesday to Thursday in Iran.
The most recent round of US strikes was completed early Thursday morning in Iran. The US military struck various sites throughout southern Iran "to further degrade Iran's ability to attack commercial shipping and innocent civil mariners in the Strait of Hormuz," the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement on X/Twitter.
Iranian officials said the US attacks had killed 14 people and injured 78 across five provinces on Wednesday and Thursday, state media reported.
Fars said one US strike had hit a rail bridge used for trade with Russia and China, while Mehr news agency reported several explosions in the Bushehr province, which is home to a Russian-built nuclear power plant.
Sirens sound through Middle East: Strikes, interceptions in Kuwait, Jordan, Bahrain
Iran's army said in a statement released by state media that it had launched attacks at US Patriot systems with drones in Kuwait, an early warning site in Qatar (satellite antenna) and a fuel storage facility of the US army in Bahrain.
Kuwait said its armed forces had engaged with a cruise missile, three ballistic missiles and 10 drones in its airspace, and that one person had been injured from falling shrapnel.
Sirens also sounded in Jordan on Thursday after missiles launched from Iran were detected in Jordanian airspace, the state news agency reported. Eight of ten missiles, which were fired at Jordan's Azraq military base, were intercepted.
No injuries or damage were reported, the news agency said.
A government spokesperson said the Jordanian Armed Forces are on high alert and ready to deal with any threat targeting the kingdom's security.
Sirens were sounded in Bahrain on Thursday morning, the Interior Ministry confirmed on X. Sirens were also sounded overnight as Iran launched missile and drone attacks on the Gulf State.
The ministry called on citizens and residents to seek shelter.
The siren has been sounded.. Citizens and residents are urged to remain calm and head to the nearest safe place
— Ministry of Interior (@moi_bahrain) July 9, 2026
A drone attack hit a camp belonging to an Iranian Kurdish opposition group northeast of Iraq's Erbil, security sources told Reuters on Thursday.
No casualties were immediately reported in the attack.
Qatar calls for calm, Iran demands full control of Strait
Qatar, which hosts the largest US military base in the region and has often mediated between Washington and its adversaries including Tehran, called for a return to diplomacy.
In a phone call with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, Qatar's Prime Minister Sheik Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani also condemned attacks against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
While Iran has not claimed responsibility for the ship attacks, analysts say Tehran uses such actions to gain leverage in negotiations.
The Strait of Hormuz handled about a fifth of global oil supplies before the war erupted on February 28 with US and Israeli strikes against Iran.
Tehran has since taken effective control of the strait, allowing it to force a stalemate in its confrontation with the world's most powerful military.
"The US has yet to learn that bullying and breaking its commitments no longer come without a cost. Let me be clear: If you strike, you will be struck back," Iran's top negotiator, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, wrote on X.
"The Strait of Hormuz will be reopened only under Iranian arrangements, not through US threats."
US-Iran diplomacy falling through, Trump says MoU 'over'
However, the US leader, who was attending a NATO summit in Turkey, also said he did not think the latest military strikes would escalate into a full-fledged conflict with Iran.
"Anything that happens is going to be over very quickly... and will only make it safer, including for oil," he told reporters in Ankara.
Asked before the NATO summit on Wednesday whether the memorandum of understanding with Iran was over, Trump said: "It's a very interesting question. To me, I think it's over. I don't want to deal with them."
Jonah Davidov and Shoshana Baker contributed to this report.
Reuters
Source: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-902037
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