Iran fired on U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf on Wednesday after a night of American bombardment, ending a month-long lull in fighting and marking the biggest exchange between Tehran and Washington since July.
U.S. forces struck Iran’s southern coast as Tehran’s military targeted American bases across the region.
Bahrain, which hosts a major U.S. naval base, said its air defense systems intercepted incoming missiles or drones fired from Iran. The Bahraini military accused Iran of targeting civilians.
Kuwait said a fire broke out at a residential complex in the capital, Kuwait City, after a dawn strike by an Iranian drone. No casualties were reported. Drones were also fired at Kuwait late on Sept. 1, which were intercepted.
Counterterrorism officials in the semiautonomous Kurdistan region of northern Iraq said 10 Iranian drones laden with explosives were intercepted in the Irbil area on Sept. 2. Iranian television said the attack targeted U.S. bases in the region.
The Israel Defense Forces said in a Sept. 2 post on X that two explosive drones were fired at its soldiers in southern Lebanon by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist group, but there were no casualties.
At the weekend, the U.S. military hit Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz, saying Tehran planned to use them to shoot mines into the waterway, which was recently cleared of mines.
Iranian state television later reported that ballistic missiles were fired by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) at the King Hussein and Al Azraq U.S. bases in Jordan, in retaliation for that attack.
4 Dead at Wedding Ceremony: Iranian Red Crescent
The Iranian Red Crescent said that a house in the city of Sirik, a port in southern Iran, was hit by a U.S. airstrike during a wedding ceremony on Monday.
It said four people, including a child, were killed and 50 others were injured.
“The Hormozgan Red Crescent reports that most of those injured were women and children,” the organization said in a Sept. 2 statement.
A Kuwaiti man holds his mobile phone displaying an alert message as sirens sound during an Iranian missile or drone attack, in Kuwait City early on Sept. 2, 2026. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)
Images from Iran’s Tasnim News Agency showed several children being treated for injuries at a hospital in the town of Minab.
The U.S. military said it was aware of the report, adding that it does not target civilians.
U.S. President Donald Trump salutes as the flag-draped transfer case containing the remains of 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan arrives from the Middle East, at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del., on July 22, 2026. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
“I’m not trying to force Iran to the bargaining table, as ABC Fake News reported. I couldn’t care less if they sign a worthless, to them, agreement,” he wrote. “They are just playing out the inevitable. When are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight?”
Earlier this week, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian offered to return to the peace deal outlined under the June 17 memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran, if Washington agreed to do the same.
“I am stating clearly that if the United States returns to its commitments under the Memorandum of Understanding, the Islamic Republic of Iran will immediately reciprocate,” Pezeshkian said during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Kyrgyzstan on Sept. 1.
The Associated Press contributed to this report
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