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Kuwait announced Monday that its air defense systems intercepted missile and drone attacks, later blaming Iran for the strike despite a current ceasefire between Washington and Tehran.
“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 Kuwaiti military said in a post on X.
Kuwait’s Foreign Ministry later issued a statement accusing Iran of carrying out the attacks. “The State of Kuwait is holding Iran fully responsible for these heinous attacks,” the ministry said.
State news agency KUNA reported that air raid sirens sounded across the Gulf country, a key U.S. ally.
The reported attack comes amid heightened regional tensions despite a ceasefire between the United States and Iran.
Meanwhile, four U.S. service members and three civilian contractors were injured in an Iranian ballistic missile strike on a U.S. air base in Kuwait last week, according to a Sunday report by CBS News.
The report said all seven sustained minor injuries and returned to duty within 24 hours.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) previously said it had targeted a U.S. airbase in Kuwait in response to an American airstrike near the Bandar Abbas airport in southern Iran.
According to Iran’s Tasnim News Agency, the IRGC said the retaliatory strike occurred at 4:50 a.m. local time (01:20 a.m. GMT), hours after what it described as a U.S. attack near the airport using aerial projectiles.
In a subsequent statement, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said the missile attack had been “successfully intercepted by Kuwaiti forces.”
Regional tensions escalated on Feb. 28 when the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran, prompting Tehran to retaliate with barrages of drones and missiles targeting sites across the region and to close the Strait of Hormuz.
A ceasefire took effect on April 8 through Pakistani mediation, but talks in Islamabad failed to produce a lasting agreement.
U.S. President Donald Trump later extended the truce indefinitely while maintaining a blockade on vessels traveling to or from Iranian ports through the strategic waterway.
Trump has repeatedly said that a broader peace agreement remains close, although negotiations have yet to produce a final deal.
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