Iranian forces said they launched on Wednesday attacks on U.S. military targets in the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain and other countries in the region.

In a statement, the Iranian army said "dozens of the army's attack drones... have targeted radar systems and the positions of U.S. forces at the Al Dhafra and Al Minhad bases in the United Arab Emirates".

Iranian media reported that the country's military had launched a "decisive operation" against U.S. targets in the region on Tuesday, as Washington carried out a fresh round of strikes.

The Tasnim news agency said a "decisive operation by Iran's armed forces in response to the U.S. enemy has begun. The U.S. bases and interests in the region are being targeted by Iranian missiles and drones."

The Iranian Red Crescent said on Tuesday that four people including a child were killed and over 50 people were wounded by a U.S. attack while attending a wedding in the south.

"Following a US missile attack, shrapnel hit a residential home in the city of Kuhestak, in Sirik county of Hormozgan province, where a wedding celebration was taking place," the Red Crescent said in a post on X.

US forces struck Iran on Tuesday and President Donald Trump vowed a "much harder" response to any counterattacks, as exchanges of fire between the two sides threatened to reignite their smoldering conflict.

Syrian authorities said at least five people were killed in northwest Idlib province on Tuesday when a vehicle carrying munitions exploded.

A government source told AFP on condition of anonymity that the vehicle belonged to a local arms dealer in the town of Binnish, without providing further details.

Mediator Qatar on Tuesday urged the United States and Iran to return to negotiations after they renewed tit-for-tat attacks.

On Sunday, the U.S. carried out strikes on an Iranian island in the Strait of Hormuz, with Tehran quickly retaliating by attacking U.S. military targets in the Middle East.

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani said Tuesday that his country was working towards a "diplomatic solution" with Israel, with US mediation, despite ongoing Israeli attacks.

Israel has launched hundreds of strikes on Syria since the Islamist authorities ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in December 2024.

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tuesday that a return by the United States to a policy of pressure and threats risked derailing diplomatic efforts to end the war in the Middle East.

"The repeated violation by the United States of its commitments under the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding showed that... the absence of effective enforcement guarantees and a return to a policy of pressure and threats could derail the path of diplomacy," Pezeshkian said in a speech at a Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Kyrgyzstan.

Eurozone inflation jumped to 3.3 percent in August, the highest level in three years, as the war in the Middle East kept pushing up energy costs, official data showed Tuesday.

Well above the European Central Bank's two-percent target, the figure provided by the statistical office of the European Union was up sharply from 2.9 percent in July and in line with forecasts by analysts for Bloomberg.

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday vowed to match any U.S. move to return to a June deal aimed at ending their war, as he prepares to meet Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at a regional summit.

The two allies were due to hold talks on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Kyrgyzstan, a bloc promoted by Russia and China as an alternative to Western power.