Iran has launched a new wave of missile and drone strikes on Sunday targeting US military bases across the region and Israel, state media said, in retaliation for the killing of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Twenty-seven US bases in the region, as well as Israel’s military headquarters and a defence industries complex in Tel Aviv, were among the targets, according to an AFP report that cited Iranian state TV.
On Sunday morning, waves of sirens were heard across central Israel and parts of the occupied West Bank, with Israel’s military saying it was responding to Iranian missile fire.
Blasts were also heard across several Gulf cities. Thick black clouds of smoke and several loud blast were reported over Qatari capital Doha, while explosions were heard across Dubai and Bahrain’s Manama.
Loud explosions and thick, black smoke were seen near Erbil airport, which hosts US-led coalition troops in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region.
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