{"id":194118,"date":"2026-07-17T04:20:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=194118"},"modified":"2026-07-17T04:20:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:50:58","slug":"gulf-states-come-under-iranian-fire-as-us-strikes-intensify-us-israel-war-on-iran-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=194118","title":{"rendered":"Gulf states come under Iranian fire as US strikes intensify | US-Israel war on Iran News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p class=\"western\">Tehran launched strikes against several countries across the Gulf and wider region overnight as the United States military raised its attacks on Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Reports on Friday morning said that Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar, as well as Jordan and Syria, had been forced to take defensive action against Iranian missiles and drones, amid a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/7\/15\/mapping-the-latest-us-strikes-across-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sixth night of US strikes on Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<section class=\"more-on\">\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories<!-- --> <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 3 items<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">The escalating US air campaign targeted civilian infrastructure in the south of the country, including telecommunications networks, railway systems, and the Bandar-e Khamir bridge in Hormozgan province, where local media reported on Thursday night that at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/7\/16\/us-mounts-sixth-straight-night-of-attacks-as-iran-warns-of-wider-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">least seven people were killed.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">Tehran has justified its strikes against Gulf and other states by saying it is targeting US facilities in the region, insisting that Washington has used its bases there as launchpads to strike Iran.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/2026\/7\/16\/aje-onl-nf_iran-strikes-gulf-nations-even-as-fm-visits-qatar-150726\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Qatar,<\/a> which hosts major US military facilities, the security threat level was elevated as loud explosions were heard across parts of the capital, Doha, early on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">Warning sirens sounded as residents received security alerts on their mobile phones. Qatar\u2019s security threat level was raised again after the initial alert, but the situation later returned to \u201cnormal\u201d after the threats were cleared.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">The Qatari Ministry of Interior confirmed on Friday morning that a child who was injured by falling shrapnel during the assault is now receiving medical care. Earlier, Qatar rejected Israeli reports that it was planning to join military action against Iran.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">Iran\u2019s army said it targeted US helicopters and reconnaissance aircraft at the Sakhir airbase in Bahrain, according to a report from the country\u2019s semi-official Tasnim news agency.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed early on Friday to have successfully targeted US monitoring assets in Oman.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">In a statement, the military said it destroyed a US air control radar in the northern Ghanim region and a maritime surveillance radar positioned on rocks in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">The IRGC declared that the critical shipping waterway \u2013 which has become the key issue in the latest outburst of conflict between the US and Iran \u2013 \u201cremains in the hands of the IRGC Navy\u2019s admirals\u201d.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\">The IRGC also reported that it hit a US military base in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/2026\/7\/17\/falling-debris-from-intercepted-iranian-strikes-sparks-fires-in-kuwait\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kuwait<\/a> early on Friday. It said that the attack targeted a missile defence radar, several key weapons depots and two HIMARS surface-to-surface missile launchers.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\">In northern Iraq, Kurdish counterterrorism forces reported that US coalition forces shot down eight explosive drones over the city of Erbil, according to the Iraqi News Agency (INA). No casualties were reported.<\/p>\n<p id=\"p-rc_e2035b12be2defe3-132\" data-path-to-node=\"7\">The Jordanian army announced its air defence systems shot down three Iranian missiles transiting its airspace on Friday morning. No casualties were reported as engineering teams dealt with falling debris.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\">The IRGC also claimed to have attacked a US special operations command centre at the al-Tanf military base in Syria, according to a Tasnim news agency report.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"call-to-return-to-hard-won-deal\" data-path-to-node=\"7\">Call to return to \u2018hard-won\u2019 deal<\/h2>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\">As hostilities between the US and Iran continue to escalate, threatening to spread across the region and curb the global economy, efforts to convince Washington and Tehran to return to negotiations are accelerating.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\">China\u2019s Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Pakistani counterpart Ishaq Dar called on Friday for an immediate ceasefire and the resumption of dialogue, hoping to save the tentative ceasefire agreed upon last month.<\/p>\n<p>Both countries have sought to mediate in the months-long conflict, which rekindled with renewed fighting over the Strait of Hormuz a month after the signing of a preliminary deal aiming to end the war.<\/p>\n<p>That agreement was \u201chard-won\u201d, Wang said, adding: \u201cPeace is before our eyes, [we] cannot fall at the last hurdle and even more so cannot lose what we have gained.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Iran has said 38 people have been killed, and more than 400 injured, in the US attacks since the two sides met in Switzerland on June 22 for talks to end the war through a 60-day negotiation period, the AFP news agency reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/7\/17\/gulf-states-come-under-iranian-fire-as-us-strikes-intensify\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran launched strikes against several countries across the Gulf and wider region overnight as the United States military raised its attacks on Iran. Reports on Friday morning said that Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar, as well as Jordan and Syria, had been forced to take defensive action against Iranian missiles and drones, amid a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-14T231952Z_434015547_RC2ZDMAYTO4I_RTRMADP_3_IRAN-CRISIS-1784158459.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":194271,"url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=194271","url_meta":{"origin":194118,"position":0},"title":"US-Iran LIVE: Iran to continue attacks until strikes stop; IRGC top brass says MOU \u2018dead\u2019","author":"Ajay Kumar Verma","date":"July 17, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"US-Iran news LIVE: Here are the latest developments: Tanker damaged near Oman A commercial tanker was struck overnight by an \"unknown projectile\" off the coast of Oman, according to the UK Maritime Trade Operations agency. 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