Bahrain says it intercepted several Iranian drone attacks

Updated / Sunday, 15 Nov 2026 08:32

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Bahrain intercepted and destroyed several Iranian aerial attacks, it said today, while Tehran said it had struck a US military ⁠base in the Gulf kingdom amid uncertainty over a deal to end the US-Israeli war on Iran.

The first such interceptions by Bahraini air defences since September followed two warnings of potential threats, urging residents to seek shelter.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had attacked a US military base in Bahrain in retaliation for "hostile US actions", Iran's Fars news agency reported.

The Bahraini military said its air defences had intercepted several Iranian aerial attacks before they reached their targets, accusing Tehran of continuing its "systematic hostile approach" ‌towards the kingdom.

The Revolutionary Guards ⁠said they had launched six drones targeting US air defence radar at the Al-Rifaa helicopter base in Bahrain, Iranian state-run Press TV reported. There was no immediate confirmation from US authorities.

Bahrain, home to the US Navy's Fifth Fleet, urged citizens and residents to remain calm and proceed to the nearest safe location, the interior ‌ministry said.

Two days earlier the Revolutionary Guards said they had attacked a US early-warning radar facility in Bahrain. The US military denied this, saying ⁠it had intercepted two Iranian drones without any damage.

Diplomatic efforts to end the almost nine-month ‌conflict have yet to produce a breakthrough, with sporadic attacks continuing despite a broader ⁠lull in ‌fighting between the US and Iran.

The war began with US and Israeli strikes on Iran on 28 February and subsequently spread across the region, with Tehran launching missile and drone attacks on US military bases in Gulf countries.

US President Donald Trump ⁠has said in recent days that he might hold off from attacking Iran if the US faces ⁠no new provocations from Tehran or the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, but that he would maintain a US naval blockade, Reuters reported yesterday.

On another front, however, the Houthis and the Saudi-led coalition fighting them have continued to exchange attacks, with the coalition saying today that it had intercepted two Houthi ballistic missiles launched towards Saudi capital Riyadh and three drones in the kingdom's oil-rich ‌Eastern Province.