Kuwait City, July 18 -- Kuwait was subjected to a barrage of Iranian missile strikes on Saturday as hostilities between the United States and Iran escalated sharply, forcing an immediate halt to all aviation operations and damaging critical elements of the Gulf nation's power grid and water desalination infrastructure.

Air raid sirens sounded repeatedly across Kuwait from the early hours of Saturday morning, prompting authorities to warn residents to seek shelter and remain indoors as inbound missiles launched from Iran breached Kuwaiti airspace.

Detailing the offensive, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that its forces had targeted the Arifjan Ground Forces Support Centre in Kuwait, claiming that the strike had ...