(CNN)-- Bahrain's Interior Ministry announced Monday the activation of warning sirens and urged citizens and residents to proceed to the nearest safe location, amid ongoing escalation between the United States and Iran.

The ministry issued a brief statement saying: "The warning siren has been activated... We ask citizens and residents to remain calm and head to the nearest safe place, and follow news through official channels."

Bahrain's Defense Force announced Sunday that it intercepted and destroyed several Iranian aerial attacks, confirming that all its "weapons and units are on the highest state of alert."

The General Command of the Bahrain Defense Force said that the kingdom's air defense systems "confronted, intercepted, and destroyed a number of treacherous Iranian aerial attacks."

Bahrain hosts US military facilities and has been a repeated target of Iranian retaliatory attacks.