The U.S. launches new airstrikes on Iran, while Tehran fires back at three Gulf Arab states in the fight over the Strait of Hormuz

U.S. forces said the latest attacks against Iran were aimed at “their ability to threaten the freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz”, citing recent strikes against commercial ships in the waterway. The strikes killed three people and wounded several others in Iran, official news agency IRNA reported on Thursday.

Iran’s reprisals came quickly, with the Revolutionary Guards saying they had struck “key infrastructure and facilities” at U.S. bases in Arifjan and Ali Al Salem in Kuwait, and Juffair and Sheikh Isa in Bahrain.

The Iranian Army later said it had targeted sites in Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar with one-way attack drones as part of its attacks on U.S. bases in the Gulf, state TV reported.

Key Updates

• Khamenei coffin lands in Mashhad ahead of burial: state media
• At least 14 people killed, 78 people wounded in U.S. strikes: Iran's Health Ministry
• Iran army targets sites in Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain: state TV
• Iran's Tehran-Mashhad railway suspended after U.S. strikes: state TV
• Latest strikes hit 90 military targets in Iran: U.S. military