Kuwaiti air defences intercepted "hostile missile and drone attacks", the military said on Monday as air raid sirens howled across the country.

"The General Staff of the Army wishes to advise that any sounds of explosions heard are the result of air defence systems intercepting these hostile attacks," the Kuwait Army said in a post on its official X account.

Kuna, the state news agency, reported that air-raid sirens rang across the Gulf nation, despite a US-Iran ceasefire in place.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corp says it targeted an air base used for a US attack on a telecoms tower on Sirik Island in the south of the country.

The attacks came after the United States conducted strikes on Iranian radar and command-and-control sites for drones in Iran's Goruk and Qeshm Island over the weekend, its military said late on Sunday.

The strikes were in response to "aggressive Iranian actions that included the shootdown of a US MQ-1 drone that was operating over international waters," the US Central Command said in a post on X.

It said US fighter aircraft responded by eliminating Iranian air defences, a ground control station, and two one-way attack drones.

It added that no US military personnel were harmed.

The two countries had traded strikes last week as well with Iran targeting a US air base after the US military carried out what a Washington official said were strikes targeting an Iranian drone operation near the Strait of Hormuz. (AFP & Reuters)



Edited by Thomas McAlinden