Picture: Kuwait Fire Force from KUNA
Doha, Qatar: Gulf nations reported missile and drone attacks Sunday, while Iran pressed on with strikes against neighbouring countries.
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait all reported new attacks, after loud explosions were heard in Dubai and Bahrain's Manama a day earlier.
Fuel tanks at Kuwait's international airport were targeted in a drone attack, the military added.
The official Kuwait News Agency said a fire at the airport was brought under control, reporting no "significant injuries".
The military called the drone attack "a direct targeting of vital infrastructure".
A separate statement said "some civilian facilities sustained material damage as a result of falling fragments and debris from interception operations".
The Kuwaiti interior ministry said two border guards "were martyred... while performing their national duty", without elaborating. It was not clear whether their deaths were the result of an Iranian attack.
The UAE's defence ministry said air defences were responding to "incoming missile and drone threats from Iran", while Bahrain's interior ministry said air raid sirens were activated.
Qatar's defence ministry said on Sunday that the country was targeted a day earlier by 10 ballistic missiles and two cruise missiles fired from Iran, but most of them were intercepted and caused no casualties.
Saudi Arabia's defence ministry also reported intercepting and destroying 15 drones that entered the kingdom's airspace, including an attempted attack at the diplomatic quarter in the capital Riyadh.
The attacks came despite Iran's president apologising to Gulf countries for earlier strikes. He had said they would no longer be targeted unless strikes were launched from their territory first.
But hours later, Iran's judiciary chief said strikes would continue on sites in Gulf countries which were "at the disposal of the enemy".
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9:15pm Doha Time
BREAKING: Bahrain Ministry of Interior says that Iranian aggression indiscriminately attacked civilian targets and caused material damage to a water desalination plant following a drone attack.
Iranian aggression indiscriminately attacked civilian targets and caused material damage to a water desalination plant following a drone attack.
— Ministry of Interior (@moi_bahrain) March 8, 2026
8:30am Doha Time
UAE Defence Ministry responding to missile and drone threats
The UAE’s Ministry of Defence says its air defences are responding to incoming missile and drone threats from Iran.
It said the sounds heard in the country are the result of air defences intercepting the projectiles.
7:30am Doha Time
Kuwait says fire at main airport controlled
Kuwaiti authorities say firefighters have now controlled the fire that broke out at the fuel tanks of the Kuwait airport earlier this morning.
Other teams are still trying to put out the blaze at the main building of the social security office, the government media office said.
The statement came minutes after Kuwait’s Interior Ministry announced the death of two border security personnel this morning.
7am Doha Time
Two Kuwaiti border security personnel killed
Two border security personnel have been killed while on duty in Kuwait, the country’s Interior Ministry says.
Kuwait News Agency quoted the ministry as saying the two were killed “at dawn” today, though the exact circumstances and location of their deaths remain unclear.
The ministry named the two men as Warrant Officer Abdullah Imad Al-Sharrah and Major Fahd Abdulaziz Al-Majmaid, and said it expressed “profound grief and sorrow” over their deaths.
