Smoke rises within the sky after blasts have been heard in Manama, Bahrain, on February 28, 2026.
| Photograph Credit score: Reuters
A number of Gulf Arab states stated they have been focused by Iranian missiles on Saturday (February 28, 2026) after Tehran pledged to retaliate in opposition to strikes by the US and Israel, bringing battle to part of the Arab world that prides itself on relative security.
State media within the United Arab Emirates stated one individual had been killed in Abu Dhabi, however gave no particulars.
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Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE, and Jordan, all of which have a U.S. navy presence, stated they’d intercepted the Iranian missiles. “All occupied territories and the prison U.S. bases in the area have been struck by the highly effective blows of Iranian missiles. This operation will proceed relentlessly till the enemy is decisively defeated,” Iran’s Revolutionary Guards stated.
Loud booms, gray smoke
Bahrain confirmed an assault inside its territory and stated a service heart of the U.S. Fifth Fleet had been struck. Video from a Reuters witness confirmed a plume of gray smoke rising close to the small island nation’s coast as sirens wailed.
Loud booms have been heard throughout Abu Dhabi, in accordance with 5 witnesses together with two Reuters correspondents. Some residents acquired a telephone alert telling them to shelter within the closest safe constructing and keep away from home windows due to missile threats.
One witness advised Reuters she heard 5 booms in speedy succession that brought about home windows in a home close to Abu Dhabi’s Corniche to vibrate. Different witnesses within the Al Dhafra and Bateen areas heard loud booms as properly. Fighter jets might be seen flying across the Yas Island space of Abu Dhabi on Saturday (February 28, 2026) afternoon.
In Qatar, the navy stated in an announcement that it had intercepted incoming Iranian missiles earlier than they reached Qatari territory after “joint coordination”. A number of successive waves of blasts have been heard within the Qatari capital Doha.
After the U.S. Embassy issued a warning to take shelter in Doha, many residents carried on their typical actions. Buyers have been in supermarkets, beachgoers headed to the seaside and a yellow double-decker tour bus stuffed with vacationers drove via town’s West Bay district. Later, when the federal government pushed a shelter-in-place warning to cell phones, fewer folks have been seen out within the streets and visitors thinned.
The Kuwaiti military says it handled missiles in Kuwaiti airspace, whereas Jordan stated it had downed two Iranian ballistic missiles.
World airways suspended flights throughout the Center East, with flight maps displaying the airspace over Iran just about empty.
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