TEHRAN - New violence shook the Middle East early Monday as the United States announced another wave of attacks on Iran, Kuwait said it was intercepting drones and Tehran's Revolutionary Guards claimed to have hit an "enemy command centre" in Syria.
Bahrain's interior ministry also said that its air raid sirens had sounded and urged citizens and residents to head to "the nearest safe place".
US Central Command (CENTCOM) late Sunday announced it was beginning a wave of strikes on Iran for the ninth night in a row.
The attacks were aimed at "degrading Iranian military capabilities used to attack commercial vessels and civilian mariners" in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the post on X said.
A preliminary deal aimed at ending the war has collapsed as the foes fight to break a deadlock over the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway key to the world's oil supply.
Since the start of the war on February 28, Iran has struck back by targeting US allies and military assets in its own neighbourhood, and by virtually blocking the strait through which a fifth of world oil supplies transited prior to the war.
Kuwaiti air defences were "engaging hostile drone attacks following Iranian aggression", its army said early Monday. "The General Staff of the Army notes that any explosions heard are a result of air defense systems intercepting the hostile attacks," a post on the official X account of the Kuwait Army said.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Monday they had launched a "surprise attack" on an enemy command centre in Syria, in a statement reported by state news agency IRNA.
They announced "a surprise attack on the enemy special operations command centre in the Al-Tanf region of Syria in revenge for the blood of martyred soldiers of Iranshahr", a city in southeast Iran, in an IRNA statement posted on Telegram.
Iran said Sunday it had targeted two US bases in Kuwait in response to more than a week of intensifying attacks, which Tehran says have hit transport and infrastructure sites, including an under-construction nuclear power plant.
Jordan also reported intercepting missiles on Sunday.
- AFP