Iran and Iranian-backed militias carried out more than 115 drone and missile strikes on structures across 26 US military bases and sites containing American equipment through August, causing billions of dollars in damage, according to information reported by Gulf News and carried by The Business Standard. The attacks targeted facilities in Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

Hundreds of facilities at military bases were damaged or destroyed between April and June, the reporting says. The strikes followed a two-stage strategy, initially targeting early-warning radars and air defence systems designed to detect and intercept incoming attacks. Within the first two days of the conflict, Iranian strikes destroyed protective enclosures housing US radar systems at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait and Naval Support Activity Bahrain, the report says, while portable radar units were hit at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia and Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan.

The reported toll

Port Shuaiba was the site of the deadliest attack on US personnel in the reporting, when a drone strike on 1 March killed six soldiers. At Prince Sultan Air Base, attacks struck barracks and mess halls, hit two aerial refuelling tankers and damaged the rear section of a Boeing E-3 Sentry surveillance aircraft. An Iranian strike also hit a CIA unit at the US Embassy in Riyadh, according to the reports, and damage was confirmed to at least 15 US aircraft across military bases in the region.

These figures come from the reported data, not from an official US damage assessment published alongside them, and this report presents them as reported claims rather than independently verified totals. The scale, if the reporting is accurate, would make the campaign against US bases one of the most consequential, and least itemised, parts of a war that began in late February and has since been partly halted by a fragile ceasefire.