Sources familiar with the matter say Saudi fighter jets conduct air strikes on targets linked to powerful Tehran-backed Shi’ite militias in Iraq during a period of wider regional fighting. The reports describe the strikes as part of a broader pattern of military responses across the Persian Gulf that remained largely hidden during a conflict that has drawn in more of the Middle East. The conflict is linked, in the sources’ accounts, to joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran on Feb. 28, which expand the crisis across the region. Reuters reports that, alongside the Saudi strikes, retaliatory strikes are also launched from Kuwait into Iraq, according to multiple sources. The Japan Times characterizes the episode as part of the same broader set of responses around the Gulf, emphasizing that such actions were mostly not publicly documented during the earlier phase of the Iran conflict. Both accounts present the strikes as reported actions based on information provided by unnamed sources and do not attribute specific strike dates or locations to named officials in the available excerpts.