Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the fighting in the Middle East.
Iran has targeted an airbase in Bahrain in the latest resumption of strikes since September, prompting public warnings and sirens to ring out in the Gulf kingdom this morning.
According to Iranian media, the IRGC said it had sent six drones to attack a US radar system hosted in the US-allied island state.
Explosions were heard around the capital, Manama, but Bahrain authorities say their air defences intercepted the attacks before they reached their targets.
Bahrain, which lies directly across the Persian Gulf from Iran, is home to the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet, and has been repeatedly attacked by Tehran during the course of the war, which has seen flare-ups in strikes amid long bouts of inaction.
There are fears Iran’s attacks this morning might signal a resumption of the war while US President Donald Trump has threatened but refrained from returning to major combat. Negotiations to end the war remain at a stalemate, with the US maintaining its naval blockade and Iran its stranglehold over the strait of Hormuz.
Developments in the Red Sea this morning will add to further concerns for Gulf oil flows.
The Yemeni government forces supported by Saudi Arabia, fighting the Houthis, have retreated from the Bab el-Mandeb area, giving the Iran-aligned rebels even greater control over the critical shipping lane, which Saudi Arabia and other Gulf oil producers had been relying on to get their supplies out.
Elsewhere, Hamas has confirmed that a senior commander involved in planning the 7 October attacks was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Saturday.
