The current war began on 28 February 2026, when surprise US and Israeli airstrikes hit military and government sites inside Iran, assassinating senior Iranian officials including Supreme Leader Ayatullah Sayyed Ali Khamenei. The strikes came amid ongoing US–Iran negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program. UN Secretary-General António Guterres and several other countries condemned the US-Israeli strikes, and the UN Security Council subsequently passed a resolution condemning Iran’s retaliatory strikes on Gulf states. A number of legal and international-relations experts have separately described the US strikes on Iran as illegal under US law and as a violation of Iranian sovereignty. Iran retaliated with strikes on Israel, on US bases across the region, and on the Strait of Hormuz shipping lanes, in an operation its military called “True Promise IV.” Since then — following the earlier Twelve-Day War of June 2025 — Iran’s Armed Forces General Staff has released an extensive, detailed tally of strikes on American and allied military installations across the Persian Gulf. Independent outlets, including AFP, Reuters, Al Jazeera and France 24, have confirmed Iranian strikes on four major sites: Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait, Al Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates, and the US Fifth Fleet’s support facility in Bahrain. The detailed figures below — base counts, projectile totals, equipment values and aircraft losses — represent Iran’s own military assessment of the campaign.
The scale: 13, 18, or 27 bases?
Iran’s Armed Forces General Staff says its missile and drone forces struck at least 13 primary bases across the region — a figure some Western reports put as high as 18. Counting secondary support sites, the tally rises to 27 facilities, plus roughly 20 smaller positions hit by drones and shorter-range fire. In Kuwait, Iranian military sources say at least eight separate locations across more than 14 points were targeted, with Ali Al Salem and Camp Buehring (also known by its older name, Camp Udairi) absorbing the bulk of the strikes. This tally treats Israeli military sites as a separate category and does not include them.
Al Dhafra Air Base, UAE
Al Dhafra, south of Abu Dhabi, hosts the US Air Force’s 380th Air Expeditionary Wing and MQ-9 Reaper drones; AFP witnesses reported smoke rising from the base after explosions were heard over Abu Dhabi. Iran’s military says roughly 250 projectiles struck the base over the course of the war, destroying a US U-2 reconnaissance aircraft and five MQ-9 drones on the ground — losses the US has not acknowledged. Iranian sources also link the base to a retaliatory strike on a school in Minab, Hormozgan province, which they say killed 168 children, teachers and parents.
Camp Buehring (Udairi), Kuwait
Camp Buehring, near the Udairi range in northern Kuwait, is described in Iranian military accounts as the largest US Army ground facility outside the United States — more than 1,200 structures built up over roughly 25 years at a cost Iranian sources put at $30 billion. The camp, roughly 2.5 by 2.5 kilometers, was targeted from the war’s opening hours through its later phases, by both Iranian forces and Iraqi armed groups firing on it independently. Iranian sources describe roughly 30 helicopters destroyed out of more than 70 massed there ahead of a planned operation against an Iranian island, heavy losses among personnel evacuated there after a separate strike on Isfahan, and the destruction of what they describe as a joint NATO operations room.
Sheikh Isa Air Base, Bahrain
Sheikh Isa, on Bahrain’s main island, hosts at least two squadrons of Bahraini F-16s. Iranian sources say it was struck dozens of times by missiles and drones throughout the war — including, more recently, a strike on a US Navy P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft — and that it lacked dedicated air-defense systems, leaving it exposed to tactical missiles with a range of up to 300 km. Open-source analysts working from available satellite imagery have geolocated around seven impact points; Iranian military sources put the actual number of damaged points closer to 50.
Naval Support Activity Bahrain / US Fifth Fleet
The US Fifth Fleet‘s shore facility in Bahrain’s Juffair district — confirmed by Bahraini authorities to have been hit in a missile attack, with video showing smoke over the area — is described by Iranian sources as one of the most heavily targeted sites of the war. Iran’s military puts the value of equipment at the base at roughly $40 billion, developed over half a century, including ship-maintenance facilities and what it describes as the region’s largest radar and signals-intelligence network. Iranian accounts say around 400 projectiles struck the base, leaving it as much as 80% non-operational with a rebuilding timeline estimated at close to a decade.
Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait
Ali Al Salem hosted not only US forces but Italian, British, French and Kuwaiti personnel, according to Iranian military sources, which say 85% of personnel were evacuated amid sustained strikes using a mix of artillery rockets and precision-guided weapons — including Fajr-5, Fateh-360 and Fateh-450 missiles alongside short-range tactical drones — with more than 100 points on the base struck on a near-daily basis.
Iran’s claimed campaign against regional radar networks
Iran’s military says its strikes destroyed more than 90% of the region’s long-range radar and communications network — roughly 280 sites — including installations in Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Syria it says went unreported in mainstream media. Iranian sources put the cost of this radar and communications damage alone above $50 billion, exceeding what they describe as the Pentagon’s internal cost estimates for the broader war.
Iranian sources also name two UAE sites — Al Minhad Air Base east of Dubai and Al Sweihan in northeastern Abu Dhabi — as repeated targets. Al Minhad is described as hosting a multinational presence, including Australian personnel said to have withdrawn after the initial strikes; Al Sweihan is described as a helicopter and munitions-storage hub.
The broad shape of this war — Iranian missile and drone strikes on US and allied facilities in Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE and Bahrain, following US-Israeli strikes inside Iran — is documented by independent media.
