Kuwait City, Kuwait, July 24 (ANI): Kuwait’s military said its air defenses intercepted Iranian drones and missiles after Iran launched a fresh wave of strikes targeting the Gulf region, including the Ali Al Salem Air Base used by U.S. forces, Al Jazeera reported.
According to the report, Iran also launched strikes toward Jordan, Bahrain, and Erbil as part of the latest escalation.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in a statement broadcast by Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB, claimed responsibility for the latest attacks under the “27th wave of Operation Nasr 2.”
The IRGC said it launched “super-heavy and advanced destructive drones” at the Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait, claiming to have targeted “a very large ammunition dump,” which it said was “completely destroyed with successive explosions.”
The statement further claimed that “six large shelters” housing personnel at the base were “completely destroyed,” while “three other shelters” were “severely damaged,” alleging that “a large number of enemy elements” were killed and wounded.
The IRGC also accused the United States of concealing battlefield losses, claiming Washington was “lying to its own people” about casualties and calling on “the American media to investigate the realities of this war” and “expose the real statistics and censorship methods.”
“It added that punitive operations against the aggressors continue.”
Meanwhile, according to The New York Times, the Pentagon reported on its official website on Wednesday that 18 U.S. service members had been killed during the war in Iran. However, by Thursday, the War Department had revised the official figures, reporting that 14 American troops had been killed in the conflict.
In response to the change in figures, three military officials told The New York Times that one reason behind the adjustment was the Trump administration’s decision to remove four service members killed during the previous weekend from the list, including three in Jordan and one in northern Iran. The reason cited was that the servicemen died after the president had declared a ceasefire in April.
Acting Pentagon Press Secretary Joel Valdez attributed the change instead to “temporary data disruptions” on the website, which he said would be “quickly fixed.”
In a separate statement regarding its strikes on Bahrain, the IRGC claimed it had destroyed the “remaining building” of what it described as an intelligence data center belonging to Amazon, alleging that the facility “plays a major role in completing the intelligence of the American” military.
Bahraini and U.S. officials, as well as Amazon, have not yet responded to the claim. (ANI)
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