Tehran, July 8 -- Iran has claimed that it launched drone and missile strikes against US-linked military facilities in Bahrain and Kuwait in retaliation for US strikes on the country's southern provinces, according to Iran's state-affiliated Fars News Agency.

Citing the Iranian Army Public Relations, Fars reported that Iranian army drones targeted the Sheikh Isa Air Base in Bahrain early Wednesday morning.

"Following the hostile invasion by the American enemy into areas in the south of the country, army drones targeted the gathering centres of the hostile American forces at the 'Sheikh Isa Air Base' located in Bahrain in an attack early this morning," the statement said, according to Fars News Agency.

Earlier, the Islamic Revolutionary...