Fars news agency says Iran’s IRGC has targeted US bases in Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain
Smoke rises in the sky after blasts were heard in Manama, Bahrain, February 28, 2026. PHOTO: REUTERS
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Saturday said a first wave of retaliatory Iranian missile and drone attacks had been launched against Israel and that all US bases and interests in the region were within Iran’s reach, an Iranian official told Reuters. Explosions were reported in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain and Qatar.
Bahrain said the service center of the US Fifth Fleet had been subjected to a missile attack. Video footage from witnesses in Bahrain showed a thick grey plume of smoke rising from near the small island state’s coastline as sirens wailed.
At least half a dozen witnesses, including Reuters correspondents, heard loud booms in various parts of the United Arab Emirates capital Abu Dhabi, a major oil producer and close US ally.
A message to residents of Israel:
Just flee.
— Iran Military Monitor (@IRIran_Military) February 28, 2026
One witness told Reuters she heard five booms in rapid succession that caused windows in the house near Abu Dhabi’s Corniche to vibrate. Other witnesses in the Al Dhafra and Bateen areas heard loud booms as well.
Fellow Gulf Arab state Qatar said it had downed all missiles targeting the country, the state news agency reported.
The United Arab Emirates said one person was killed from falling shrapnel after Iranian missile attack.
A series of explosions was heard, and air raid sirens sounded over Jerusalem after Israel and the United States launched a joint attack on Iran.
The military said earlier that it had identified a barrage of missiles launched from Iran.
Qatari defence systems intercepted an Iranian missile, an official told AFP, as warning sirens sounded in the Gulf state.
Qatar’s US-made Patriot interceptors downed an Iranian missile, the official said on condition of anonymity.
Qatar hosts the Al-Udeid military base, the largest US military facility in the region.
Explosions were heard near Iran’s Kharg Island. Iran exports 90 per cent of its crude oil via Kharg, for shipping through the narrow Strait of Hormuz.
Israel and the US conducted joint strikes against Iran earlier today, pushing the Middle East into a renewed military confrontation and further dimming hopes for a diplomatic solution to the West’s long-standing agenda to denuclearise Iran, despite Iran’s repeated assertions that it will not pursue nuclear weapons.
According to the Fars news agency, explosions have been heard in Isfahan, Qom, Karaj, and Kermanshah. Explosions can also be heard in the Iranian city of Tabriz in the northwest.
A source told Reuters that Iranian officials were the main target of the first US-Israel attack wave.
