Iran's Revolutionary Guard claimed responsibility for launching drone and missile attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait on Sunday, according to a statement issued via state-run Iranian media.The attempted strikes came hours after new U.S.
military action against Iranian targets.The latest exchange has put negotiations toward a lasting ceasefire in jeopardy.It was the most significant escalation since Iran and the U.S.
signed a memorandum of understanding earlier this month.Under that tentative agreement, both sides gave themselves 60 days to resolve key disputes.
Those include shipping arrangements in the Strait of Hormuz, the removal of a U.S.blockade on Iranian ports, sanctions relief and the future of Iran's stockpile of highly enriched uranium.Kuwait said on Sunday that its air defenses had intercepted two Iranian ballistic missiles.
There were no reports of injuries or damage.Bahrain's Interior Ministry said Iranian munitions hit a residential building near the international airport.
No one was killed.The ministry released photos of an eight-story building with its top floor destroyed and windows blown out.
The building was not near the headquarters of the U.S.Navy's 5th Fleet.
The fleet is based in Bahrain and came under sustained attack during the war.Bahrain's Foreign Ministry condemned what it called "a dangerous escalation that reveals that what Tehran is doing is not a passing act, nor an isolated incident, but rather a deliberate approach and a systematic pattern of repeated aggression."Meanwhile, violence between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon continues to fan tensions in the region.On Sunday, the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah killed an Israeli soldier in Deir Siryan village in southern Lebanon, according to Israel's military, which said it responded by killing the man responsible.
A day earlier, Hezbollah's leader said the group would fight on until Israel withdraws from southern Lebanon, according to a statement carried in a pro-He...