{"id":450367,"date":"2026-02-28T13:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/450367\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T13:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:53:10","slug":"iran-launches-retaliatory-strikes-at-targets-across-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/450367\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran launches retaliatory strikes at targets across Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Iranian forces say they have struck a US naval base in Bahrain, as Iran launched strikes across the region in retaliation for a &#8220;massive&#8221; and ongoing attack against it by the US and Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Huge plumes of black smoke were seen rising from an area near the headquarters of the US Navy&#8217;s Fifth Fleet in Manama, Bahrain. The extent of any damage is unclear and the US has not commented. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere across the region, the UAE, Qatar and Kuwait &#8211; all home to US military bases &#8211; said they have intercepted missiles in their air space. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Doha, Qatar&#8217;s defence ministry said it had intercepted several missiles apparently targeting the al-Udeid air base, the largest American base in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iranian forces say they have struck a US naval base in Bahrain, as Iran launched strikes across the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-450367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}