Kuwait's military said it was responding to renewed Iranian aerial attacks on July 16 as Iran and the United States exchanged strikes over control of the vital Strait of Hormuz.
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Iran's health ministry said Friday that at least 38 people had been killed and more than 400 injured in the country since fighting resumed with the United States.
"The number of injured from US attacks has exceeded 400, and 38 compatriots have been martyred" since June 22, ministry spokesman Hossein Kermanpour posted on X. "Among them are 22 injured women, three martyred women, nine injured under the age of 18, and one martyr under 18."
China's and Pakistan's foreign ministers called on the United States and Iran to end fighting and return to the negotiating table, after meeting in Shanghai.
US President Donald Trump remains open to diplomacy with Iran, the White House said, adding that Washington was still talking to Tehran despite the renewal of hostilities.
"The president will hold them accountable when they turn their back on the words that they state to the United States. But he is always open to diplomacy at the very same time," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they had "targeted and destroyed" two radar sites belonging to the United States in Oman, one used for maritime surveillance and one for air surveillance.
Jordan's military said it had shot down three Iranian missiles, reporting no casualties or damage.
Iran meanwhile said it had targeted US military infrastructure in Kuwait, which said it was responding to missile and drone attacks. Bahrain and Qatar also reported attacks early Friday, with the Qatari defence ministry saying it had intercepted a missile attack.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they had attacked the Al-Tanf military base in Syria.
"The IRGC announces a surprise attack on the enemy's Special Operations Command Center in Syria's Al-Tanf region in retaliation for the blood of the martyred Iranian soldiers in Iranshahr," the state broadcaster wrote on Telegram.
American forces boarded a ship in the Gulf of Oman as part of Washington's renewed blockade of Iranian ports, the US military said.
US Central Command also said it had "redirected" three vessels trying to circumvent the blockade since it went back into effect amid renewed fighting.
Iranian state TV reported two explosions in the city of Bushehr, home to Iran's only civilian nuclear plant.
Iranian state media also reported US strikes on an airport, a railway station in the port city of Bandar Abbas and two bridges in southern Iran near the Strait of Hormuz, with three people killed.
US forces launched strikes against Iran for a sixth night in a row, the US military said.
The strikes - which began at 1800 GMT - were carried out to "further degrade Iranian military capabilities", US Central Command said in a post on X.
A drone struck a ship off the port in Iraq's southern province of Basra, a security official told AFP, while the country's oil ministry said an unspecified object had fallen near a tanker.
The official told AFP that a drone had struck a ship "carrying American-branded cars" near an oil terminal after it arrived from the United Arab Emirates.
Iranian news agencies reported that the United States had launched strikes around Iran's Gulf island of Qeshm near the Strait of Hormuz.
The Fars news agency reported an "American missile strike in the vicinity of Qeshm", citing local authorities. Tasnim reported that one of its correspondents had reported that locations around the island "were struck by projectiles from the American enemy".
AFP