Kuwait and Bahrain report a number of rounds of Iranian missile, drone assaults; sirens reportedly sound in Jordan.
Revealed On 19 Jul 2026
Iran has fired drones and missiles at Kuwait and Bahrain and claimed to have stopped two ships within the Strait of Hormuz after an eighth consecutive evening of assaults by america.
Kuwait and Bahrain reported multiple waves of Iranian strikes on Sunday, with Kuwaiti authorities saying one assault began a hearth at an influence and water plant.
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Each international locations, which host US army installations, have borne the brunt of assaults by Iran on its Gulf neighbours since hostilities resumed this month all however shattering the US-Iran ceasefire.
Kuwait’s Ministry of Electrical energy, Water and Renewable Power condemned the “heinous Iranian aggression”, whereas Bahrain’s army stated its air defences had additionally thwarted “treacherous” Iranian assaults.
Iran’s military stated that one in every of its Sunday assaults on Kuwait focused a US ammunition depot at Camp al-Adiri and air defence radars at Ali Al Salem airbase, which hosts US personnel.
In a press release on the IRIB broadcaster, Iran’s military stated its troopers would “stay agency and steadfast” in defending the Iranian individuals “towards the enemies of Iran and humanity”.
Additionally on Sunday, Israel’s army stated an Iranian missile was fired in direction of the Jordanian metropolis of Aqaba, as sirens reportedly sounded in Jordan. Israeli and Jordanian forces intercepted the Iranian missile, the Israeli army informed AFP.
Iran’s newest assaults comply with a sequence of overnight US strikes on Iran that Washington stated aimed to “punish” Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces chargeable for earlier assaults in Jordan that killed two US service members. The US army stated the strikes additionally sought to “degrade Iran’s means to threaten business transport within the Strait of Hormuz”.
The US assaults struck areas in Iran’s Hormozgan and Khuzestan provinces, in addition to Qeshm Island, in response to Iranian media stories. They have been much less intense than earlier nights of US assaults, reported Al Jazeera’s Tohid Asadi from Tehran.
In a while Sunday, Iran’s nuclear power company stated the US attacked an under-construction nuclear energy plant within the nation’s south-west, which it condemned as a breach of worldwide regulation.
Ships stopped in Hormuz
There have been indicators on Sunday of additional turmoil within the Strait of Hormuz, the place the IRGC stated it blocked two ships that attempted to make use of an “unsafe route”. It stated each had been concerned in an unspecified “accident”.
The standing of Hormuz has confirmed to be a major point of contention following the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding signed final month, which prolonged the April ceasefire and agreed to the gradual reopening of the waterway. Iranian officers stated Tehran has the appropriate to proceed managing transport by way of the strait. The US says Iran doesn’t management the waterway and reimposed its own blockade of Iranian ports.
Paul Musgrave, professor of presidency at Georgetown College in Qatar, stated Iran has the “higher hand” by way of dedication to the warfare, which it sees as existential.
“Since February, the asymmetry on how pursuits have been performed has been clear: the regime in Tehran is preventing an existential warfare. America and Israel are preventing a warfare over coverage selections,” Musgrave informed Al Jazeera.
