Relatives mourn over the coffin of Hezbollah fighter Hassan Ali Kallas, from the southern Lebanese village of Nabatieh al Fawka, during his funeral at a temporary cemetery in the southern coastal Lebanese city of Sidon on Thursday. — AFP TEHRAN, June 11 (Agencies): The US and Iran have exchanged strikes across the Middle East for a second consecutive day, further straining a shaky ceasefire agreed between the two countries in April.
US Central Command (Centcom) said it had completed a wave of "self-defense strikes" targeting military, surveillance and radar sites in southern Iran, hours after President Donald Trump vowed US forces would hit Iran "hard".
Tehran responded to the attack with a round of strikes targeting US military assets across the region in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan.
Iran's foreign ministry said early on Thursday that the overnight attacks violated the two-month-old ceasefire, rendering it "practically meaningless".
Kuwait said Thursday it would temporarily close its airspace from 4:50 am (0150 GMT) and divert flights to alternative airports, after Iranian attacks in the region.
Iranian media reported on Thursday that Iran had attacked the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, after US strikes on its territory.
"In this wave of army drone strikes, communication antennas and radar facilities of the Patriot system of the 5th Fleet were targeted," the Mehr and Fars news agencies posted on Telegram.
An air raid alert was issued in Bahrain and residents have been urged to "remain calm and head to the nearest safe place" the Gulf country's interior ministry said on X.
Meanwhile, fears of American attacks are growing among thousands of Indian seafarers on duty near the Strait of Hormuz, their union said on Thursday, after three were killed in a US strike off the coast of Oman.
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