US says it struck Iranian military sites, Tehran responds with air base attack

The U.S. said it struck Iranian military sites at ‌the weekend and Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Monday it had targeted a U.S. base in response, the latest exchange of attacks amid negotiations to end the three-month-old war, Reuters reported.

The U.S. and Iran have sporadically exchanged strikes since their ceasefire took effect in early April.

The weekend U.S. strikes on Iran's Gulf coast were in response to "aggressive Iranian ​actions that included the shootdown of a U.S. MQ-1 drone that was operating over international waters," the U.S. Central ⁠Command said in a post on X.

"U.S. fighter aircraft swiftly responded by eliminating Iranian air defenses, a ground control station, and two one-way attack drones ​that posed clear threats to ships transiting regional waters," CENTCOM said, adding it will continue to protect U.S. assets and interests during the ongoing ceasefire.

Iran's ​Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Monday it had targeted an air base used by the U.S. in response to the attack on southern Iran, without identifying which base.

Air defenses in Kuwait, where a major U.S. base is located, were intercepting missile and drone attacks on Monday as sirens sounded across the country, the state news agency KUNA ​reported, without providing further details.

In a late night social media ‌post, U.S. ⁠President Donald Trump did not mention the exchange of hostilities, repeating Iran "really wants to make a deal".