{"id":58206,"date":"2026-06-03T08:58:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=58206"},"modified":"2026-06-03T08:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:59:10","slug":"iran-drone-and-missile-attack-hits-kuwait-airport-state-news-agency-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=58206","title":{"rendered":"Iran drone and missile attack hits Kuwait airport, state news agency says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> (Reuters)   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DUBAI, June 3 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/iran\/\">An Iranian<\/a>\u00a0drone and \u200bmissile attack struck Kuwait&#8217;s international \u200cairport early on Wednesday, causing injuries and forcing authorities to divert flights, \u200bKuwait&#8217;s state news agency \u200breported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The attack caused &#8220;severe damage&#8221; to the airport&#8217;s T1 \u2060building, the report said, \u200bciting the General Civil Aviation \u200bAuthority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. military earlier said two Iranian missiles fired at Kuwait fell \u200bshort or broke apart \u200ben route, and three missiles launched \u200cat \u2060Bahrain were intercepted by U.S. and Bahraini forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. Central Command added that Iran&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/irans-irgc-attacks-us-fifth-fleet-headquarters-airbase-local-media-reports-2026-06-03\/\">launched<\/a>&nbsp;ballistic \u200bmissiles toward \u200bregional \u2060neighbours but all failed to hit targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. forces \u200bconducted strikes on Qeshm \u200bIsland \u2060in response to attempted attacks by Iran and defeated \u2060multiple \u200bIranian ballistic missiles \u200band drones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) DUBAI, June 3 &#8211;\u00a0An Iranian\u00a0drone and \u200bmissile attack struck Kuwait&#8217;s international \u200cairport early on Wednesday, causing injuries and forcing authorities to divert flights, \u200bKuwait&#8217;s state news agency \u200breported. The attack caused &#8220;severe damage&#8221; to the airport&#8217;s T1 \u2060building, the report said, \u200bciting the General Civil Aviation \u200bAuthority. The U.S. military earlier said two Iranian missiles fired at Kuwait fell \u200bshort or broke apart \u200ben route, and three missiles launched \u200cat \u2060Bahrain were intercepted by U.S. and Bahraini forces. U.S. Central Command added that Iran&nbsp;launched&nbsp;ballistic \u200bmissiles toward \u200bregional \u2060neighbours but all failed to hit targets. U.S. forces \u200bconducted strikes on&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58208,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58206\/revisions\/58208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}