Jordan under Iranian attack

Iran announced a fresh wave of strikes on Sunday against four Gulf countries and Jordan, a day after its first round, saying the attacks were retaliation for overnight American bombardment. Tehran said the strikes targeted US military installations in the region.

The exchange of fire marked the most intense escalation on both sides since the April 8 ceasefire.

Jordan's army said Sunday morning it had shot down four Iranian missiles "that had entered Jordanian airspace from Iranian territory," according to a military source, adding there were no injuries or material damage.

Kuwait's military said it was engaging "hostile aerial targets" in the emirate's airspace, where Tehran struck two air bases. "Three border posts in the north of the country were the target of a cowardly attack, causing material damage," the defense ministry said in a statement, adding that "an offshore drilling platform belonging to the Kuwait Oil Company... was targeted by a hostile drone, wounding one employee and causing material damage."

Air raid sirens sounded at dawn Monday in Bahrain, the interior ministry said, while strikes also hit Oman.

The US military had earlier announced Sunday evening it had launched a fresh round of strikes on Iran "to prevent it from attacking ships in the Strait of Hormuz."

It marked the fourth round of strikes exchanged between Iran and the United States since last week, further destabilizing the Islamabad memorandum of understanding signed in mid-June between the two countries to end the war launched on February 28 by the joint US-Israeli attack on Iran.