Iranian missiles and drones target US-linked bases across the Persian Gulf, forcing four GCC states into a major regional escalation.
PERSIAN GULF — A wave of coordinated Iranian ballistic missile and one-way attack drone salvos targeted military installations and logistics infrastructure linked to American forces across the Persian Gulf, triggering mass air-defense activations, emergency civil-defense protocols, and renewed alarms over an unconstrained regional war.
The strikes have thrust four Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states—Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates—directly into the crosshairs of the expanding kinetic confrontation between Washington and Tehran. While interceptor batteries largely engaged incoming salvos across multiple sectors, the multi-vector barrages underscore the acute operational vulnerability of Gulf monarchies hosting critical U.S. forward-operating bases and strategic command architectures.