Gulf states say responding to missile, drone attacks

Emirati and Kuwaiti air defenses are responding to missile fire, authorities in the Gulf states say, while Saudi Arabia intercepts drone attacks.

Elsewhere in the Gulf, Bahrain’s interior ministry says that shrapnel from an “Iranian aggression” caused a fire at a warehouse, which was brought under control and resulted in no injuries.

The ministry earlier said air raid sirens were activated.

In Kuwait, an army statement says air defenses were “responding to hostile missile and drone threats,” while the UAE state media reports “incoming missile and drone threats from Iran.”

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says in a statement carried by the Tasnim news agency that they had targeted US forces in the UAE’s Al-Dhafra air base as well as sites in Israel with missiles and drones.

There are no immediate reports of any casualties.

Saudi Arabia’s defense ministry says that within less than two hours, its forces had “intercepted and destroyed” 10 drones in the country’s east and another in the north.