WASHINGTON, United States
The United States and Iran have exchanged strikes across the Middle East for a second consecutive day, further straining a shaky ceasefire agreed between the two countries in April.
US Central Command (Centcom) said it had completed a wave of "self-defense strikes" targeting military, surveillance and radar sites in southern Iran.
It came hours after President Donald Trump vowed US forces would hit Iran "hard" and said Tehran had taken "too long to make a deal" to end the war permanently.
Tehran responded to the attack with a round of strikes targeting US military assets across the region - with bases in Bahrain and Kuwait under Iranian fire for a second day in a row.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) also said it fired ballistic missiles at a US command centre in Jordan, state media reported.
It said it had destroyed "a large number" of US fighter jets and "facilities" after firing 12 ballistic missiles at the Muwaffaq Salti Airbase in Jordan.
Jordanian state media reported 20 missiles had been intercepted and shot down by the country's air defence systems and air force, citing an unnamed military official.
The missiles had been fired towards Azraq in central Jordan, it reported, "without any human casualties or material damage" caused.
Bahrain's interior ministry said its air raid sirens were activated and that falling shrapnel from intercepted Iranian drones had damaged homes and vehicles in the capital Manama and Hamad Town.
An 11-year-old girl was treated for a "minor injury", the ministry said, calling Iran's strikes "sinful".
Meanwhile, Kuwait's Army posted on X that its anti-air defence systems intercepted "hostile aerial targets".
Kuwait said it had temporarily closed its airspace due to the Iranian attacks, before reopening it early on Thursday.
In Iran, state media reported explosions around Tehran, the port city of Bandar Abbas and other southern areas near the Strait of Hormuz.
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