Kuwait said on Wednesday it had suspended commercial flights after an Iranian drone attack heavily damaged the country's airport and caused injuries, as Iran and the US traded missile strikes in the latest escalation of hostilities between the two sides.
Kuwait Defence Ministry spokesperson 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."
The airport reopened on Monday after closing in February due to the Iran war. Domestic media reported that Kuwait Airways was suspending its operations until further notice.
Kuwait has come under Iranian fire repeatedly since the war began on 28 February. On 1 March, an Iranian drone struck a US tactical operations centre at Port Shuaiba, killing six American soldiers and wounding more than 30. Iranian drones also damaged a government building in Kuwait City on 5 April.
Late Tuesday, the US military said it had launched strikes on an Iranian military facility in retaliation for Iranian missiles fired at Kuwait and Bahrain.
