Kuwaiti civil aviation authorities said the country’s main airport has partially reopened after an Iranian attack damaged it yesterday.
Kuwait Airways flights resumed from a different terminal from the one that was hit. No other flights would be operating, they said.
Kuwait suspended commercial flights for a time yesterday after Iranian drones damaged the country’s airport and killed at least one person — the latest salvo in a series of back-and-forth attacks by Tehran and Washington that have tested a fragile ceasefire.
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Kuwait Ministry of Defense spokesman Brigadier General Saud Abdulaziz Al-Otaibi said that “a number of hostile drones” had targeted Kuwait International Airport’s passenger building, severely damaging the building and injuring “a number of individuals.”
Kuwait’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said at least one person had been killed and others wounded.
The airport had only reopened Monday after closing early in the war. State media reported that Kuwait Airways was suspending operations until further notice.
The US Department of Defense said that Iran fired two missiles at Kuwait that fell apart en route, and that it had “downed multiple drones” targeting US forces.
The US military said US and Bahraini forces intercepted missiles aimed at Bahrain, which is home to the US Navy’s 5th Fleet. Bahrain’s defense ministry said its military had intercepted and destroyed three missiles and a number of drones fired by Iran.
The US military said it launched strikes on an Iranian military ground control station on Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz in response to the attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard acknowledged that it targeted the headquarters of the 5th Fleet and US military facilities in another country, but did not name Kuwait. It said the strikes were in retaliation for attacks on Qeshm Island.
“We had previously warned that in case of aggression, the response would be different and more severe, and we acted accordingly,” the Guard said in a statement.
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