{"id":324363,"date":"2026-03-09T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=324363"},"modified":"2026-03-10T08:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:04:27","slug":"irgc-drone-missile-strikes-target-us-al%ef%b7%93udairi-helicopter-base-in-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=324363","title":{"rendered":"IRGC drone, missile strikes target US Al\ufdd3Udairi helicopter base in Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Press TV \u2013 March 8, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says its navy forces carried out a combined drone and ballistic\u2011missile operation against the US Al\u2011Udairi helicopter base in Kuwait. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Sunday, the IRGC said the strike precisely hit helicopter maintenance and refueling facilities, fuel depots, aircraft, and the base command building, causing severe damage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing this wave of attack, a massive fire erupted at the base, and thick, black smoke still rises from it, visible for miles,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>On February 28, the United States and the Israeli regime started their unprovoked military assault on Iran, assassinating the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, and top Iranian military commanders.<\/p>\n<p>Iran began to swiftly retaliate against the criminal aggression by launching barrages of missiles and drone attacks on the Israeli-occupied territories as well as on the US bases in regional countries.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has repeatedly emphasized that it only targets American positions and bases in the region and does not seek conflict with Arab countries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2026\/03\/08\/765109\/IRGC-missiles-target-US-military-base-in-Kuwait-terrorist-positions\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AL-ADAIRI BASE HIT! US Air Power Grounded? Iran Targets Apache Hub in Kuwait Desert<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Times Now World \u2013 March 8, 2026<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dbks_MASNL8?si=ReD4siqvg3K5jUah\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dbks_MASNL8\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran strikes a US helicopter facility in Kuwait, which was vital for the maintenance of US helicopters in the region and contained fuel storage depots, maintenance and refuelling facilities, aircraft and the base command building<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":324368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324363"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324372,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324363\/revisions\/324372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/324368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}