Participants of Bahrain’s Civil Protection extinguish a hearth brought about through falling particles from intercepted Iranian drones in Hamad The town, Bahrain, on June 11, 2026. (Bahrain’s Internal Ministry/Handout by way of Xinhua)
TEHRAN, July 24 (Xinhua) — Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) mentioned Friday that its forces had introduced contemporary retaliatory moves towards U.S. bases and belongings in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan.
The IRGC mentioned its forces had struck and fully destroyed a “very large” U.S. ammunition depot at Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait with “advanced and ultra-heavy” kamikaze drones.
It added that its forces additionally attacked amenities housing U.S. forces on the base, inflicting casualties.
Consistent with the IRGC, its forces finished an previous army operation towards the information middle of U.S. corporate Amazon in Bahrain, destroying its last construction.
It additional claimed to have demolished 3 U.S. ammunition and gear depots on the Al-Adiri Camp in Kuwait, and struck the watchtower of the U.S. 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain, inflicting important harm.
The IRGC additionally mentioned its aerospace forces had performed a “crushing” assault on Al-Azraq Air Base in Jordan, inflicting important harm to quite a lot of U.S. fighter plane.
It added that barracks housing U.S. forces on the base had additionally been struck, inflicting casualties amongst U.S. team of workers.
Consistent with the IRGC, its forces performed “surprise” operations towards U.S. army positions in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan area, destroying a Patriot air protection gadget and an espionage balloon and hitting the U.S. troop lodging amenities.
The IRGC additionally introduced that its air defenses intercepted a U.S. cruise missile over Iran’s southeastern Kahnuj County on Thursday evening.
Previous on Friday, the Iranian Military introduced in a commentary on its site that its forces had focused “important” U.S. army facilities in Jordan and Bahrain in contemporary drone moves.
In the meantime, U.S. Central Command mentioned in a put up on social media platform X early Friday that its forces had “successfully completed the 13th straight night of strikes against Iran.”
It mentioned U.S. forces had focused “Iranian military command centers, drone storage facilities, communication networks, coastal surveillance sites, and maritime capabilities to further diminish the threat Iran poses to civilian mariners and commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.”
Consistent with the most recent figures launched through Iran’s Well being Ministry, no less than 55 other people were killed and 629 others wounded in U.S. moves towards Iran since June 27.
The U.S. army has introduced a number of waves of moves towards Iran’s southern provinces in contemporary days, claiming that the assaults are according to Iranian forces’ concentrated on of vessels within the Strait of Hormuz, and geared toward “degrading Iran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping.”
Iran has answered with waves of missile and drone assaults concentrated on U.S. army bases and amenities around the area.■
