Government office building smolders in Kuwait City after what army says was drone attack

A drone strike hit a government office and airport fuel tanks in Kuwait City, escalating tensions as Iran apologizes to Gulf neighbors amid the ongoing U.S.-Israeli conflict.

Reuters

8 March 2026 at 09:07:33

Smoke rises from a building on fire, in the aftermath of what the Kuwaiti Army says is a drone attack, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Kuwait City, Kuwait March 8, 2026 in this screengrab taken from a social media video.

Reuters

A government office building in Kuwait City was targeted in a drone attack, the Kuwaiti army said on Sunday (March 8).

Fuel storage tanks belonging to Kuwait International Airport were also targeted in a drone attack, the army said.

The government building, housing the headquarters of the Public Institution for Social Security, was still smouldering on Sunday morning as firefighters extinguished the blaze that engulfed the structure earlier in the night.

Israel and Iran traded numerous attacks on Saturday as the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran entered a second week.

The governments of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates reported Iranian drone attacks in their countries on Saturday (March 7) and early Sunday with varying degrees of damage.

Iran's president Masoud Pezeshkian had on Saturday (March 7) apologized to neighbouring states for its attacks on U.S. facilities in those countries, to cool anger across the Gulf, urging them not to join U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran.

-Reuters