The US and Iran traded fire late on Friday in the latest tit-for-tat exchanges that have threatened a shaky ceasefire, while Kuwait and Bahrain also came under fire from ballistic missiles.
US Central Command, which oversees military operations against Iran, said its forces shot down four Iranian attack drones that “posed an immediate threat to regional maritime traffic” in the Strait of Hormuz. It said American forces subsequently struck “Iranian coastal surveillance radar sites” in Goruk and on Qeshm Island.
Iran, in a pattern that mirrored the most recent exchanges on Wednesday, fired missiles at US bases in the nearby Gulf states of Kuwait and Bahrain. Centcom said that six missiles were intercepted, while a seventh did not reach its target. It said claims that Iran had struck the headquarters of the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain were “false”.