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Kuwait airport hit
Kuwait said Iranian drones heavily damaged a passenger terminal at Kuwait International Airport, killing one person and wounding dozens as the airfield was briefly closed during back-and-forth attacks that test a fragile ceasefire.
“Kuwait said Iranian drones heavily damaged a passenger terminal at its main airport Wednesday, killing one person, wounding dozens”
The AP reported that Kuwait said the strike reinforced risks to residents and travelers in Gulf countries, while Iran denied causing the damage and Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard claimed the terminal was damaged by a U.S.-made interceptor that failed to hit Iranian missiles.
In the same episode, the U.S. Central Command called Iran’s claim false and said on X that Iranian drones made a “deliberate, calculated and unjustified attack” on the airport.
The AP also said Kuwait’s Defense Ministry destroyed over a dozen missiles and a similar number of drones from Iran and that the airport partially reopened later, with Kuwait Airways flights resuming at a different terminal, according to civil aviation authorities.
Competing claims
Kuwait’s Defense Ministry spokesperson Brig. Gen. Saud Abdulaziz Al-Otaibi said “a number of hostile drones” targeted a passenger building at Kuwait International Airport, while Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it did not fire at the airport and blamed a U.S.-made interceptor.
Al Jazeera reported that Kuwait’s foreign ministry summoned Iran’s charge d’affaires in Kuwait, Hamed Hamid Yaqoubi Far, and handed him a protest note demanding that two Iranian embassy staff leave the country within 24 hours.
The AP said the Foreign Ministry told that Kuwait will “neither accept nor tolerate” the attacks and was kicking out two Iranian diplomats, describing expulsions as a means of communicating international ire.
Al Jazeera also said India’s foreign ministry condemned the attack, confirming that the killed person was an Indian national, and quoted India’s statement: “We condemn the attack on the Kuwait International Airport today in which an Indian national has died and several of our nationals are injured,”.
Ceasefire strain
The AP said talks have dragged on for weeks as mediators seek a more enduring truce in the war, now in its fourth month, and that the fighting in Lebanon has exposed a rift between Israel and the U.S. pushing for restraint.
“now in its fourth month”
In Washington, the AP reported that House Speaker Mike Johnson said he, Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio huddled for three hours at the White House Monday as Trump worked on “that final piece” of getting commerce flowing.
The CBC reported that the U.S. House voted 215 to 208 to back a Democratic-led resolution aiming to stop the Iran war until hostilities are authorized by Congress, with four Republicans voting with Democrats.
The CBC also said the latest strike marked an escalation for the oil-rich Gulf country that had seen relative calm since a ceasefire in the Iran war was announced on April 8, while Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards blamed the destruction on U.S. interceptor missiles that failed to hit their targets and the U.S. military said Iranian drones targeted the airport deliberately.