Iran claims drone attack on US military base in Bahrain
On Sunday, 15 November 2026, Bahrain issued two alerts of potential threats — its first such warnings since September — as explosions shook the capital, Manama. Iran said it had carried out a drone attack on a US military base in the US-allied island state, targeting an airbase there and breaking a long lull in strikes during the Middle East War.
The claimed attack comes while talks to end the conflict remain deadlocked. The United States is still enforcing a naval blockade, and Iran continues to keep a tight hold on the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint that matters far beyond the Gulf because so much of the world’s seaborne energy traffic passes through it.
France 24 reported the developments in a dispatch by Rachael Griffiths, issued at 16:29 and updated at 16:30. Bahrain’s dual alerts and the blasts in Manama are the first public signs in months that the island, which hosts US forces, is again in the firing line of the wider war.
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