Iran targeted Gulf allies of the United States on Wednesday, firing drones at Kuwait and Bahrain after a night of U.S. aerial bombardment of Iran. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Associated Press.

Iranian officials said one of the U.S. strikes on the country overnight struck a wedding party, leaving at least five people dead and dozens wounded. Iran’s government spokesperson, Fatemeh Mohajerani, described the attack as a crime.

Fighting between the U.S. and Iran has increased this week after the U.S. hit Iranian rocket launchers on an island in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, saying Iran was planning to use them to shoot mines into the waterway. Iran retaliated by firing missiles at American bases in Jordan, which were all intercepted.

The U.S. Central Command said Tuesday’s strikes focused on Iranian military targets including air defense sites, radar systems and maritime assets.

But Iranian media said one U.S. strike hit a home hosting a wedding in Kuhestak, a small town on the coast overlooking the Strait of Hormuz. At least five people were killed, including a 4-year-old and a 16-year-old, the state news agency IRNA reported, and at least 68 people were wounded.

The U.S. military said it was aware of the report but that it “never targets civilians.”

Footage from the Iranian Red Crescent showed rescue workers entering a damaged home in the wake of the strike, with debris scattered all around and a hole in the roof of one house in a neighborhood of densely packed homes.

“Make no mistake: these crimes will not go unpunished,” Ebrahim Azizi, chairperson of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said on X.

Bahrain said its air defense systems intercepted several Iranian air attacks early Wednesday, without providing further details. In a statement, the Bahrain Defense Force accused Iran of “persisting in its systematic hostile approach through its heinous attacks targeting civilians in the Kingdom of Bahrain.”

Iranian state media said Iran’s military had launched drone attacks on U.S. bases in Bahrain and in the United Arab Emirates in response to the overnight attacks.

Kuwait’s government communications center said a fire broke out at a residential complex in the capital after it was hit by an Iranian drone at dawn. It said the blaze had been contained and there were no casualties.

Saudi shipping company Bahri said two Filipino sailors were killed in an attack late Monday as their vessel transited the Strait of Hormuz. In a statement Wednesday, the company said its ship, named the SIDR, was “involved in a security incident” in the strait shortly before midnight on Monday that resulted in the loss of two of their seafarers. No one claimed responsibility for the attack on the Saudi tanker.

Iran has established a chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s traded oil passed in peacetime, after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28. Ship traffic through the waterway has slowed to a trickle, roiling the global economy and spiking prices for energy and other goods across the world.

Iran has been working with Oman, which sits on the other side of the Strait of Hormuz, on a framework for managing shipping traffic, though it remains unclear whether the plan would be acceptable to the U.S. Other Gulf nations have stressed the need to reopen the strait unconditionally.

Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi in Cairo, on the second day of his visit to Egypt. The visit is his first visit to the Middle East since a series of devastating conflicts erupted in the region. Xi arrived Wednesday morning at Cairo’s Ittihadiya palace, the seat of the Egyptian presidency, where he was greeted by el-Sissi and a 21-gun artillery salute.