Tehran, July 16 -- Iran on Thursday claimed to have carried out drone and missile strikes on US military facilities in Jordan and Kuwait, saying the strikes were conducted in retaliation for recent US strikes on Iranian territory, according to Iran's state broadcaster IRIB.

The current ongoing operations against US strikes are 'Operation Lightning' carried out by the Iranian Army and 'Operation Nasr 2' carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

According to IRIB, the Iranian Army said that in the ninth phase of 'Operation Lightning,' it targeted "the communication systems and fuel tanks of the US terrorist army in Jordan with destructive drones."

The statement said the strike targeted the fixed radar site, communicati...