Kuwait’s National Guard said one of its sites and several vital facilities were struck by hostile drones on Thursday evening, marking a fresh escalation in the Middle East conflict only days into a fragile US-Iran ceasefire.
National Guard spokesperson Brig. Gen. Dr. Jad’an Fadel confirmed that drones had hit the site, causing significant material damage but no casualties, the state news agency KUNA reported. Authorities began immediate “security and field measures” to contain the incident and assess the damage, the Government Communication Center said.
Kuwait’s army earlier said its air defences were engaging drones that had breached national airspace and targeted multiple vital facilities, without giving further details. The statement came shortly after the army had reported no operational developments in the previous 24 hours.
Kuwait’s Defence Ministry separately attributed the incident to “intense hostile Iranian attacks”, saying its forces had intercepted a large number of drones, some of which targeted oil installations, power stations and water desalination plants in the south of the country, according to wire reports.
Kuwait’s Foreign Ministry condemned the attacks, blaming Iran and its proxies for striking vital infrastructure on the evening of 9 April.
The strikes come days after a Pakistan-brokered two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran, intended to halt six weeks of fighting and reopen the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping. The Kuwait attacks underscore the truce’s fragility and widen the conflict’s footprint to a Gulf state hosting major US military assets and supplying global oil markets.
For Sri Lanka, any further disruption of Gulf energy infrastructure threatens fuel imports already constrained by Hormuz uncertainty, even as Colombo races to clear its own rationing measures.
Sources: Ada Derana, Arab Times.
