Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday they hit "enemy bases" in the Gulf, state media reported, after US forces said they struck radar sites in Iran in the latest flare-up to threaten the ceasefire in the Mideast war.

"Following the invasion of the child-killing and terrorist US army into Sirik and Qeshm Island, enemy bases in the region were hit by aerial missiles," state broadcaster IRIB reported, quoting the Guards.

US Central Command said in a statement on Friday that its forces shot down four one-way attack drones launched towards the Strait of Hormuz, then attacked southern Iranian coastal surveillance radar sites in the city of Goruk and on Qeshm Island.

"The attack drones posed an immediate threat to regional maritime traffic," while the strikes on radar installations "defend against further attacks," it said.

Iranian state broadcaster IRIB reported on Saturday that "several explosions were heard" in Sirik in southern Iran at around 2.30am.

Kuwait's military said early on Saturday it was responding to "hostile" missile and drone attacks, days after a strike on the country's international airport killed one and wounded dozens.

"Kuwaiti air defenses are currently responding to hostile missile and drone attacks," the military said on X, without specifying their origin.

A ceasefire has been in place between the United States and Iran since April 8, but subsequent talks to try to put a more permanent end to the conflict have so far been unsuccessful.

US President Donald Trump is under pressure to find a way out of the war, which has delivered a shock to markets and proven unpopular at home as midterm elections loom.

Trump acknowledged in an interview with NBC News late on Friday that Iran still has war-fighting capacity.

"They have some missiles, they have some drones. I would say, percentage wise, maybe 21, 22 percent of their missiles," he said.

Iran's military said on Friday it had fired "warning missiles" at two US destroyers in the Gulf of Oman – a claim promptly denied by the US military.

Two days earlier, Kuwait said it had intercepted 30 ballistic missiles fired as part of "heinous Iranian aggression". (AFP)




Edited by Robert Kemp