Jordan shoots down 5 Iranian missiles

Jordan’s air defence shot down five missiles launched from Iran on Thursday morning, the country's state-run Petra news agency said, hours after the US military announced it had completed "a heavy wave of strikes against Iran” in response to an earlier Iranian missile attack on a US base in Jordan.

No casualties were reported from Jordan's interception of the missiles, the news agency quoted the spokesman for the country's armed forces as saying.

The flare-ups on multiple fronts after several days of relative calm raised the risk of a return to all-out war. It also underscored the difficulty of winding down a five-month conflict that has jolted the world economy and is unpopular among Americans.

The fighting was likely to add to concerns that the US is further drawing down already diminished stockpiles of sophisticated munitions needed to defend its bases and allies.

Associated Press