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Several Gulf Arab states said they were targeted by Iranian missiles connected Saturday (February 28, 2026) aft Tehran pledged to retaliate against strikes by the United States and Israel, bringing struggle to a portion of the Arab satellite that prides itself connected comparative safety.
State media successful the United Arab Emirates said 1 idiosyncratic had been killed successful Abu Dhabi, but gave nary details.
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Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE, and Jordan, each of which person a U.S. subject presence, said they had intercepted the Iranian missiles. “All occupied territories and the transgression U.S. bases successful the portion have been struck by the almighty blows of Iranian missiles. This cognition volition proceed relentlessly until the force is decisively defeated,” Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said.
Loud booms, grey smoke
Bahrain confirmed an onslaught wrong its territory and said a work halfway of the U.S. Fifth Fleet had been struck. Video from a Reuters witnesser showed a plume of grey fume rising adjacent the tiny land nation’s seashore arsenic sirens wailed.
Loud booms were heard crossed Abu Dhabi, according to 5 witnesses including two Reuters correspondents. Some residents received a telephone alert telling them to structure successful the closest unafraid gathering and enactment distant from windows due to the fact that of rocket threats.
One witnesser told Reuters she heard five booms successful accelerated succession that caused windows successful a location adjacent Abu Dhabi’s Corniche to vibrate. Other witnesses successful the Al Dhafra and Bateen areas heard large booms arsenic well. Fighter jets could beryllium seen flying astir the Yas Island country of Abu Dhabi connected Saturday (February 28, 2026) afternoon.
In Qatar, the subject said successful a connection that it had intercepted incoming Iranian missiles earlier they reached Qatari territory aft “joint coordination”. Several successive waves of blasts were heard successful the Qatari superior Doha.
After the U.S. Embassy issued a informing to instrumentality structure successful Doha, galore residents carried connected their accustomed activities. Shoppers were successful supermarkets, beachgoers headed to the seaside and a yellowish double-decker circuit autobus filled with tourists drove done the city’s West Bay district. Later, erstwhile the authorities pushed a shelter-in-place informing to mobile phones, less radical were seen retired successful the streets and postulation thinned.
The Kuwaiti service says it dealt with missiles successful Kuwaiti airspace, portion Jordan said it had downed 2 Iranian ballistic missiles.
Global airlines suspended flights crossed the Middle East, with formation maps showing the airspace implicit Iran virtually empty.
