Iran-US war LIVE: Kuwait airport suspends operations, most flights rescheduled as missile strikes continue

According to an Al Jazeera update citing Lebanon’s National News Agency, Israeli war jets conducted air strikes in two dawn waves. They targeted the Masha’ al-Mansouri area in southern Lebanon.

Multiple US officials have told CBS News that American service members were injured as Iran attacked two airbases in Jordan this week. Details remain scarce, but there were reportedly no fatalities among the Americans or the Jordanians.

Kuwait Airways said on Saturday it ⁠has ​rescheduled most ​flights after ​the ⁠country temporarily suspended operations ‌at Kuwait International Airport ⁠following Iranian ⁠missile and ⁠drone ‌attacks.

The airline ​had earlier said ‌the ​rescheduling ​was ​due to ​the closure of ⁠Kuwaiti airspace.

The US State Department has advised Americans to reconsider travel to and through the Middle East as tensions across the region continue to rise. It warned that the security situation remains unpredictable and could deteriorate without warning. The department also urged US citizens already in the region to stay alert, follow the latest developments, and confirm flight schedules with their airlines before travelling.

Iraq signed a series of preliminary agreements with Western energy companies during a US-Iraq business summit in Washington, including a major project to revive the long-idle Iraq-Syria oil pipeline. The restored route would allow Iraqi crude to reach Syria’s Mediterranean coast, giving Baghdad an alternative export corridor that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz. According to Iraq’s state news agency, US energy giant Chevron will lead the pipeline reconstruction project.

The Kuwaiti army says it is again responding to Iranian missile and drone attacks, urging the public to “adhere to the authorities’ safety and security instructions”.

Any explosions heard are the sounds of air defences engaging hostile attacks, the army added in a statement shared on X.

The Iranian Tasnim news agency quoted the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as saying that countries hosting US forces should expect “corresponding responses” if their territory was used to attack Tehran.

Pakistan has announced that petroleum prices in the country will be adjusted daily to tackle the uneven fluctuation in oil prices triggered by the ongoing conflict in West Asia.

The government had started fixing prices on a weekly basis since the start of the US-Iran war in late February.

Petroleum Minister Ali Pervaiz Malik, along with Information Minister Attaullah Tararon, announced on Friday at a press conference.

Malik said that the Cabinet decided to assign the task of fixing prices to the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) — the country’s oil and gas watchdog — which will decide the fuel prices on a daily basis.

OGRA would “not just publish the fuel rates on its website that are used to determine prices, but also publish the factors leading to the price that we see in each petrol pump”.

According to an Axios report, the Trump administration has told Israel it’s sending dozens more refuelling planes into the country. The development comes even as the president weighs a broader military escalation against Iran.

Donald Trump was briefed on several new military options during a Situation Room meeting Tuesday and is now considering an offensive against Iran far larger in scope than the ongoing strikes around the Strait of Hormuz. He hasn’t made a final call, but officials say he appears ready to escalate enough to force Tehran to reopen the strait and accept his nuclear demands, with a decision possible within days.

The Kuwaiti armed forces remain actively engaged in repelling a fresh wave of hostile missile and drone attacks. Details regarding specific targets or casualties have not yet been released. However, military leadership has issued an urgent directive to the public, calling for calm and advising all residents to strictly adhere to security and safety protocols issued by competent civil defence authorities as the situation develops.

This is the second time that the Kuwaiti army has engaged hostile targets since dawn broke. An ANI report added that military officials have condemned the attacks as “sinful Iranian aggression.”

The General Staff of the Kuwaiti Army confirmed the ongoing interceptions in a public statement, reassuring citizens that loud explosions heard across the region are the direct result of the nation’s air defence networks successfully neutralising incoming threats..

The Tasnim news agency said US strikes targeted a location in the vicinity of Jask. Media reports also cite a local official as saying on Saturday morning that several missiles struck power facilities and desalination water pumps in the city. A separate update cited by Reuters added that explosions have also been heard in Khorramabad.

The Jordanian news agency said that the armed forces have intercepted 10 missiles from Iran on Saturday morning.

The update came soon after Iran claimed it had launched drone strikes against multiple US military facilities in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain. The statement said Iranian drones had struck fuel storage tanks at Al-Azraq Air Base in Jordan.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has claimed responsibility for a wave of strikes against Bahrain, saying it had targeted a US drone depot in the country.

According to the IRGC, the operation destroyed an American unmanned aerial vehicle storage facility, setting fire to a large number of drones and stated that ballistic missiles and dozens of drones struck what it described as the “main artificial intelligence centre” in Bahrain.

The US ​Central Command released a statement after concluding a seventh consecutive night of strikes against Iran. CENTCOM said that it “continues to hold Iran accountable” at Trump’s direction while fully enforcing a naval blockade against Iranian ports.

“More than 50,000 American service members are operating across the Middle East and remain vigilant, lethal, and ready,” the statement added.

The US ​Central Command has just ‘concluded’ a seventh consecutive night of strikes against Iran.

“CENTCOM hit surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure, underground weapons storage, and maritime capabilities. U.S. forces employed fighter aircraft, aerial drones, and warships in addition to other assets,” read an excerpt from the X statement.

According to an official statement, Iran launched retaliatory drone strikes against multiple US military facilities in Kuwait and Jordan.

Iran said its drones had targeted an ammunition depot at Al-Udairi Camp, headquarters buildings and ammunition depots at Ali Al-Salem Air Base in Kuwait, as well as several communication bridges. The Iranian Army further claimed that fuel storage tanks at Al-Azraq Air Base in Jordan were struck in the same operation.

Tehran described Al-Udairi Camp as a key logistics and force-support hub for US troops, while Ali Al-Salem Air Base was identified as one of the largest centres supporting and coordinating US air operations in the Gulf region. It also dubbed the Al-Azraq Air Base a critical US military facility used for regional operations because of its strategic location and military infrastructure.

Mohsen Rezaei, a senior IRGC commander and adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, warned that if US attacks continue for another two or three days, Iran will launch a broader military campaign. He said future retaliation could involve waves of missiles and drones across the region.

An Indian seafarer who went missing after an Iranian attack on a commercial vessel has been confirmed dead. Following the incident, India asked shipping companies not to deploy Indian crew members on ships sailing through the Strait of Hormuz.

US Central Command said it carried out another round of strikes to further degrade Iran’s military capabilities, marking the seventh consecutive day of attacks.

Two oil tankers caught fire after sailing through a mined route in the Strait of Hormuz. The IRGC claimed the waterway is now “highly unsafe” and “completely closed,” though the US has not confirmed the incident.

Oil prices on Friday rose by 3% after the US and Iran stepped up attacks across the Gulf, with shipping threatened by a potential Red Sea closure on top of the restricted traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. Brent ⁠crude ​futures rose by $2.49, or 2.96%, to $86.72 a barrel by 11:50 a.m. ET (1550 GMT). U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures were up $2.48, or 3.14%, at $81.43.

Share indexes tumbled around the world on Friday, as heavyweight chip stocks plunged for a third consecutive day as investors reduced bets on artificial intelligence, with China’s Moonshot releasing a large AI system. Meanwhile oil prices rose as the United States and Iran expanded their attacks to hit key infrastructure. The United States struck bridges and an airport in Iran, and Tehran responded by hitting a power and desalination plant in Kuwait.

Copper prices fell on Friday as escalating tensions in the Middle East spurred inflation concerns and cast a shadow over the demand outlook for the metal. Benchmark three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange was down 0.6% at $13,515.50 a metric ton as of 1600 GMT, having earlier dipped as much as 1.6%, and on course to eke out a weekly gain of ⁠0.2%.

The United States struck bridges and an airport in Iran on Friday, provoking Tehran to respond by hitting a power and desalination plant in Kuwait, as the warring foes risked further escalation by expanding their targets to include infrastructure.

Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has demanded an immediate end to the escalation, according to a statement issued by the office of its administrative leadership.

US military has denied Iranian claims that American soldiers were killed at the Al-Tanf base on the Syria-Jordan border, calling the reports entirely false in a statement released on X.

The US military on Friday said that it destroyed the ⁠Chabahar ​Shahid Kalantari Port surveillance tower in ​Iran ​on Thursday. US ⁠Central Command said in ‌a post on X that the tower was part of ⁠a ⁠maritime surveillance network ⁠along Iran’s ‌Gulf ​of Oman coastline ‌used by the ‌Islamic Revolutionary ​Guard ​Corps ​to track and target ​commercial vessels ⁠transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

The UK has designated the IRGC and another Iran-linked group, the Islamic Movement of Companions of the Right (IMCR), as threats to national security.

Iranian strikes on Friday hit a power and water desalination plant in Kuwait, damaging one of the key sources of drinking water in the small desert nation. It’s the latest attack on essential infrastructure across the Middle East that have exposed extreme vulnerabilities in one of the world’s driest regions, which relies almost exclusively on technology to produce freshwater that sustains cities, hotels, industry and some agriculture.

Brent crude climbed to around $86.7 per barrel, hovering near its highest level in a month after a brief pullback in the previous session, as investors continued to monitor the escalating conflict between the United States and Iran.