{"id":538311,"date":"2026-07-12T22:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/538311\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T22:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:25:06","slug":"iranian-ballistic-missiles-target-us-base-in-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/538311\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian ballistic missiles target US base in Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/american-politics\/article-902222\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a> fired three ballistic missiles at a US military base in Kuwait on Sunday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-affiliated Tasnim News Agency claimed.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, explosions were heard in the area as smoke was seen in the border region between Kuwait and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-902225\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iraq<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Smoke was seen rising from a Kuwaiti port, Walla reported earlier on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">US Central Command (CENTCOM) released a statement on X\/Twitter that said that Iranian propaganda claimed three US servicemembers were killed in the strikes, which CENTCOM denied as false.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;There are zero reports of US service member deaths or injuries in the region. All personnel are accounted for,&#8221; CENTCOM announced.<\/p>\n<p>Later on Sunday, Iran claimed to have destroyed American High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) batteries in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-902250\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kuwait<\/a>, according to the Iran-run Fars News Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the Fars report attributed the strike to Iranian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-902262\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">drones<\/a>, contradicting the earlier Tasnim ballistic missile report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran fired three ballistic missiles at a US military base in Kuwait on Sunday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17467,42,87,6605,6606,43,40,38,41,39,48717,2586],"class_list":["post-538311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-ballistic-missile","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-kuwait","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us-military","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}