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.
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.
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.
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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.
The Ministry also said that three people were injured and material damage was inflicted on a university building in the Muharraq area after missile fragments fell.
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
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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.
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Two Kuwaiti border security personnel killed
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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.
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