US launches ninth night of strikes on Iran as it hits out at Gulf neighbors

New violence shook the Middle East early Monday as the United States announced another wave of attacks on Iran, Kuwait said it was intercepting drones and Tehran's Revolutionary Guards claimed to have hit an "enemy command centre" in Syria. Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Monday they had launched a "surprise attack" on an enemy command centre in Syria, in a statement reported by state news agency IRNA. They announced "a surprise attack on the enemy special operations command centre in the Al-Tanf region of Syria in revenge for the blood of martyred soldiers of Iranshahr", a city in southeast Iran, in an IRNA statement posted on Telegram.