US denies responsibility for Kuwait airport strike that killed one and injured dozens

The ongoing fallout

Kuwait’s Defence Ministry said it destroyed more than a dozen missiles and a similar number of drones from Iran.

The airport partially reopened later,with Kuwait Airways flights resuming at a different terminal,according to civil aviation authorities. No other flights were operating.

The Foreign Ministry said Kuwait will ‘neither accept nor tolerate’ the attacks and was kicking out two Iranian diplomats.

The US military said two Iranian missiles fell apart en route to Kuwait and that it ‘downed multiple drones’ targeting American forces in the country.

The military also said US and Bahraini forces intercepted missiles aimed at the Gulf kingdom,home to the US Navy’s 5th fleet. Bahrain’s Defence Ministry said its military intercepted and destroyed three missiles and a number of drones fired by Iran.

Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard acknowledged that it targeted the headquarters of the 5th Fleet and US military facilities in another country,but did not name Kuwait.

The US and Iran said they were retaliating for earlier attacks or attempted ones.

The US military also said it launched strikes on an Iranian military ground control station on Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry condemned the US strikes on the island,where it said a telecommunications tower was struck,and other previous strikes. It called them ‘acts of aggression’ that it said violated the ceasefire.