Fireplace at Kuwait refinery as Gulf states come beneath drone, missile assaults

Drone assaults prompted fireplace at Kuwait’s Mina Al-Ahmadi oil refinery on Friday (March 20, 2026), state media reported, as authorities in a number of Gulf states mentioned they have been responding to assaults from Iran.

Iran has stepped up assaults on Gulf power infrastructure in current days, hitting refineries and the world’s largest fuel hub in Qatar, as Tehran retaliated over Israeli strikes on its South Pars fuel subject.

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The official Kuwait Information Company, citing the nationwide oil firm, mentioned “a number of hostile drone assaults” hit the Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery, inflicting fires however no casualties.

It mentioned firefighters have been working to include the blazes whereas “a number of refinery items have been shut down”.

Earlier on Friday (March 20), Bahrain’s inside ministry mentioned that shrapnel from an “Iranian aggression” prompted a hearth at a warehouse, which was introduced beneath management and resulted in no accidents.

In Kuwait, a military assertion mentioned air defences have been “responding to hostile missile and drone threats”, whereas the UAE state media reported “incoming missile and drone threats from Iran”.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards mentioned in a press release carried by the Tasnim information company that they’d focused US forces within the UAE’s Al-Dhafra air base in addition to websites in Israel with missiles and drones.

Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry mentioned that inside about two hours, its forces had “intercepted and destroyed” greater than a dozen drones within the nation’s east and one other within the north.