An Associated Press journalist heard at least seven explosions near or inside the airport base hosting U.S. forces in Irbil on Friday morning and saw at least four plumes of black smoke, while Bahrain sounded sirens twice without an immediate report of damage. [1]

The update moves beyond the paper's cutoff account of Iran threatening bases that support American operations, because a public warning has now been followed by physical blasts near one U.S.-hosting site, though AP had not identified who caused them. [1]

The U.S. military said it had completed a thirteenth night of strikes, and Iranian outlets reported attacks on a Revolutionary Guard naval base, Qeshm Island, Isfahan, Khuzestan and Fars; those reports establish a wider target set without supplying one reconciled account of effects or casualties. [1]

AP also reported that Houthi forces had targeted two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea on Thursday, adding another shipping route to a conflict already centered on Hormuz, but the Irbil explosions, Bahrain alarms, U.S. strikes and tanker attacks remain separate events whose actors, orders, interceptions and damage cannot be merged by chronology alone. [1]

Three targeted X searches timed out or returned no usable status, so platform attribution and reaction remain unverified, while the next defensible record requires Iraqi and Bahraini authorities to identify incoming weapons or other causes, any interceptions, damage and casualties; Friday's late sweep shows geographic spread, not yet a complete retaliation ledger.

-- YOSEF STERN, Jerusalem