Iran attacks Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Syria, Oman and Qatar
Kuwait reported Friday an Iranian attack on a power and water plant on Friday, while Bahrain and Qatar also said they had intercepted missiles after the U.S. attacked power infrastructure in Iran.
Kuwait said that a power and water plant had been damaged by an Iranian attack, as the war in the Middle East escalated.
"One of the power and water distillation plants was the target of an attack as part of the Iranian aggression... resulting in a fire, damage, and the impairment of several production units," the electricity ministry said in a statement, urging users "to ration their electricity consumption during this exceptional period".
Iran's Revolutionary Guards meanwhile said they had struck U.S. military aircraft stationed in Jordan with ballistic missiles and drones in retaliation for overnight U.S. strikes.
In a statement, they claimed to have destroyed "several U.S. refueling aircraft and fighter jets" and caused "serious damage to many more". They also called on Jordanians to target "the interests of the aggressive and anti-Islamic Americans" in their country.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards also said they had struck two radar sites belonging to the United States in the Gulf sultanate of Oman and the Al-Tanf military base in Syria.
A statement said their forces "targeted and destroyed the maritime surveillance radar at the Salamah Rocks and the U.S. air surveillance radar stationed in the Ghanam area".
"The IRGC announces a surprise attack on the enemy's Special Operations Command Center in Syria's Al-Tanf region in retaliation for the blood of the martyred Iranian soldiers in Iranshahr," a separate statement on Telegram said.
A Syrian military source denied to AFP on Friday that Iran had bombed the Al-Tanf base near Syria's southeastern borders with Jordan and Iraq.
In neighboring Iraq, the U.S.-led coalition shot down several drones on Friday over Erbil, the capital of Iraq's northern Kurdistan region, Kurdish forces said, in the second such incident in the city this week.
Kurdish counterterrorism forces said that "coalition forces downed eight explosive-laden drones over Erbil between 04:19 and 05:25 am (0119 and 0225 GMT)", with no damage or casualties reported.
Source: Agence France Presse
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