Al Jazeera:
Gulf countries remain on high alert as Iran has launched several waves of drone and missile strikes across the region in response to continued attacks by the United States and Israel.
Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates faced a barrage of Iranian attacks late on Thursday, with the Kuwaiti army’s general staff saying in a social media post that air defences were intercepting projectiles in the country’s airspace.
Earlier in the day, Qatar’s Ministry of Defence said the country was targeted in several attacks, including 14 ballistic missiles and four drones coming from Iran.
Iran initially began striking US military assets in the Gulf region but later expanded to include civilian installations after the US and Israel launched a war against the country on Saturday, killing at least 1,230 people to date, according to the latest figures cited by Iranian state media.
Iran’s attacks, which have increasingly targeted energy infrastructure, have killed at least six US service members as well as 11 people in Israel and three others in the UAE.
Oil and gas prices have soared as tankers are stuck near the Strait of Hormuz amid attacks on ships passing through one of the most important waterways in the world. Some 20 percent of the world’s crude passes through the strait.
