US says it shot down two Iranian drones heading towards Bahrain

The US military on Friday said it had shot down two Iranian attack drones launched towards Bahrain, denying an Iranian claim that its forces had struck a US early-warning radar system in the Gulf kingdom. US Central Command (Centcom) said the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched two one-way attack drones towards Bahrain, both of which were intercepted by US forces. Centcom also rejected the IRGC’s claim that it had attacked a US early-warning radar in Bahrain earlier in the day. The competing accounts come amid questions from some US lawmakers about the Pentagon’s disclosure of details surrounding incidents in the conflict, while scepticism has also circulated on social media.