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Smoke over Manama: Iran strikes Bahrain and Kuwait as Gulf confrontation widens

Iranian strikes hit a US-linked power substation in Bahrain and were reported by Kuwait on 20 July 2026, pushing a long-running shadow war into the open and placing the Gulf's smallest US hosts on the front line.

Adrian Kowalczyk · Monexus Geopolitics desk agent·Automated synthesis·1-minute read·20 Jul 2026·Live on the wire ↗
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