UAE, Qatar war news highlights: Kuwait says it is dealing with drone attack, civilian buildings damaged

UAE, Qatar war news LIVE: Israel's military said on Saturday it had struck 16 Iranian aircraft at Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport, which it said was a key hub for the Islamic republic's Revolutionary Guards.

"Overnight, the Israeli Air Force... completed a broad wave of strikes across Tehran and on military infrastructure located at the 'Merabad Airport' in Tehran", it said in a statement.

"16 aircraft of the 'Quds Force' unit of the IRGC were precisely dismantled", it said, referring to the branch of Iran's Revolutionary Guards that oversees its foreign operations.

UAE, Qatar war news LIVE: The United States has completed over a dozen charter flights and evacuated thousands of Americans from the Middle East since last week, the US State Department said on Saturday.

The Trump administration has faced criticism over its planning and initial assistance to US citizens trying to leave the region since US and Israeli strikes on Iran began last Saturday, with the Iranians responding with attacks on neighboring countries, sparking airspace closures

UAE, Qatar war news LIVE: Qatar Airways on Thursday announced operation of the following flights on 08 March to Hamad International Airport from: London (LHR), Paris (CDG), Madrid (MAD), Rome (FCO), Frankfurt (FRA) and Bangkok (BKK). These flights are only for passengers whose final destination is Doha, the airlines said.

Operations of these flights were announced following temporary authorisation from the Qatar Civil Aviation Authority confirming a safe operating corridor, it said.

UAE, Qatar war news LIVE: Dubai's main airport, a key global transport hub, was forced to briefly close on Saturday as Iran launched missiles and drones at targets across the Gulf.

Attacks were reported on Saturday in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait, with the Emirates saying it was targeted with 16 ballistic missiles and more than 120 drones.

One unidentified object was intercepted near Dubai airport, the world's busiest for international traffic, forcing it to briefly suspend operations.

UAE, Qatar war news LIVE: Iran's Revolutionary Guards said its forces have targeted a Marshall-islands flagged oil tanker on Saturday in the Gulf as the war with Israel and the United States raged.

"An oil tanker with the trade name 'Louise P' with the flag of the Marshall Islands, one of the assets of the terrorist America, was hit by a drone in the middle of the Persian Gulf," the Guards said on their website Sepah News.

UAE, Qatar war news LIVE: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian's office reasserted on Saturday: “If countries in the region do not cooperate in the US attack on Iran, we will not attack them.”

The deputy head of Pezeshkian’s office said the President's message was “clear”.

“Iran will never submit to coercion. Our powerful armed forces will give a decisive response to any aggression from US bases in the region,” the official said, as per news agency Reuters and Qatar-based channel Al Jazeera.

UAE, Qatar war news LIVE: Kuwait's National Guards on Saturday said that it downed a drone at “one of the areas of responsibility” where it is providing support to the country's defese ministry.

“National Guard forces successfully shoot down a drone at one of the locations where the Guard provides support to the Ministry of Defense.”

UAE, Qatar war news LIVE: Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz on Saturday warned Lebanese President Joseph Aoun that his country would pay a "very heavy price" if it fails to disarm Hezbollah.

Addressing the president, Katz said in a statement broadcast on Israeli television that if "the choice becomes protecting our civilians and the safety of our soldiers or Lebanon, we will choose to defend our civilians and our soldiers, and the government of Lebanon and Lebanon will pay a very heavy price."

UAE, Qatar war news LIVE: According to a report by Reuters, citing sources, top Indian refiner, Indian Oil Corp, has booked some oil cargoes for loading from the Red Sea port of Yanbu.

The US-Israel war with Iran has disrupted oil and natural gas exports from the Middle East, while top oil exporter Saudi Arabia is increasing shipments from the Red Sea as an alternative.

UAE, Qatar war news LIVE: "The Iranian Navy targeted American bases and occupied territories with a massive wave of drone attacks," the army said in a statement carried by the official IRNA news agency.

It said the targets included the UAE's Al-Minhad base and another in Kuwait, as well as a "strategic facility" in Israel.

Later, the Revolutionary Guards said their forces also targeted Al-Dhafra air base in the UAE.

UAE, Qatar war news LIVE: UAE defence ministry on Saturday said its air defences detected 16 ballistic missiles on March 7, 15 were intercepted and one fell into the sea.

• Air defence systems also detected 121 UAVs, of which 119 were intercepted while two fell within UAE territory.
• Since the start of the Iranian attacks, UAE has detected 221 ballistic missiles — 205 destroyed, 14 fell into the sea and two landed in UAE territory.
• Eight cruise missiles were also detected and destroyed by air defence systems.
• The attacks resulted in three deaths — Pakistani, Nepali and Bangladeshi nationals — and 112 minor injuries among people of multiple nationalities.

UAE, Qatar war news LIVE: From drone incursions to squeezed flight paths, airline pilots are facing escalating risks as a war rages in the Middle East, with Iran retaliating against strikes by the United States and Israel that killed the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The war has filled the skies above several of the world’s busiest airports with hundreds of ballistic missiles and attack drones. Read more here

UAE, Qatar war news LIVE: The United Arab Emirates said it intercepted 15 ballistic missiles and 119 drones on Saturday as Iran kept up its attacks on its Gulf neighbour.

"UAE air defence systems detected today, Saturday 7th March 2026, 16 ballistic missiles, of which, 15 were intercepted and destroyed, while one ballistic missile fell into the sea," the ministry of defence said in a post on X.

"Air defence systems also detected 121 UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), of which 119 were intercepted, while two fell within the territory of the UAE."

UAE, Qatar war news LIVE: US President Donald Trump on Saturday said Iran will be "hit very hard" and that he was considering widening the areas and groups of people being, targeted, without providing details.

"Today Iran will be hit very hard! Under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death, because of Iran's bad behavior, are areas and groups of people that were not considered for targeting up until this moment in time," Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

UAE, Qatar war news LIVE: The war with Iran could leave consumers and businesses worldwide facing weeks or months of higher fuel prices even if the week-old conflict ends quickly, as suppliers grapple with damaged facilities, disrupted logistics, and elevated risks to shipping.

"The market is shifting from pricing pure geopolitical risk to grappling with tangible operational disruption, as refinery shutdowns and export constraints begin to impair crude processing and regional supply flows," Reuters quoted JP Morgan analysts.

UAE, Qatar war news LIVE: US President Donald Trump in a social media post on Saturday said that Iran has surrendered to its Middle East neighbors, and promised that “it will not shoot at them anymore.”

“This promise was only made because of the relentless US and Israeli attack. They were looking to take over and rule the Middle East. It is the first time that Iran has ever lost, in thousands of years, to surrounding Middle Eastern Countries," the post read.

UAE, Qatar war news LIVE: Iran’s president vowed not to surrender as Tehran maintained missile strikes on Gulf states in the now week-long war with the US and Israel, a seismic conflict that’s upended energy markets and reverberated worldwide.

“The idea that we would surrender unconditionally, they must take such a dream to the grave,” Masoud Pezeshkian said in a speech on Saturday, responding to US President Donald Trump’s demand that Iran give up without a negotiation for the war to end.

UAE, Qatar war news LIVE: Qatar Airways on Thursday announced operation of the following flights on 08 March to Hamad International Airport from: London (LHR), Paris (CDG), Madrid (MAD), Rome (FCO), Frankfurt (FRA) and Bangkok (BKK). These flights are only for passengers whose final destination is Doha, the airlines said.

Operations of these flights were announced following temporary authorisation from the Qatar Civil Aviation Authority confirming a safe operating corridor, it said.

UAE, Qatar war news LIVE: Pezeshkian's statement on Saturday said the country's three-man leadership council had been in touch with the armed forces over the attacks.

"I should apologise to the neighbouring countries that were attacked by Iran, on my own behalf," the president said. "From now on, they should not attack neighbouring countries or fire missiles at them, unless we are attacked by those countries. I think we should solve this through diplomacy."

UAE, Qatar war news LIVE: Alyssa Ramos' evacuation from Kuwait took 48 hours and carried her across four continents. The US government did not help with any part of it, the travel blogger told Associated Press.

“They keep going on the news and saying they’re doing everything they can to get Americans out," Ramos said after landing in Miami on Thursday. “I know for a fact they’re not,”she said.

UAE, Qatar war news LIVE: Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Saturday said their forces targeted Al-Dhafra air base in the UAE.

"In this attack, the American terrorists' air warfare centre, satellite communication centre, early warning radars, and fire control radars were hit," the Guards said in a statement, AFP reported citing Tasnim news agency.

War across the Middle East erupted after the United States and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran on February 28, killing the Islamic republic's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

UAE, Qatar war news LIVE: Iran's army said Saturday its navy had launched a wave of drone attacks targeting Israel as well as US bases in the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, as the regional war raged into its second week.

"The Iranian Navy targeted American bases and occupied territories with a massive wave of drone attacks," the army said in a statement carried by the official IRNA news agency.

It said the targets included the UAE's Al-Minhad base and another in Kuwait, as well as a "strategic facility" in Israel.

UAE, Qatar war news LIVE: Dubai authorities in an X post said that the authorities have dealt with a “limited incident resulting from the fall of a shrapnel fragment caused by a successful interception operation by air defenses, with no injuries recorded.”

“There is no truth to what is currently being circulated on social media sites regarding any incident at Dubai International Airport,” it said.

UAE, Qatar war news LIVE: Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Saturday said that they targeted the US Air Combat Centre and Satellite Communications Hub at the UAE's Al Dhafra Air Base, Reuters reported.

UAE, Qatar war news LIVE: Saudi Arabia's Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman urged Iran to "avoid miscalculation" on Saturday, following missile and drone launches against the kingdom, AFP reported.

In a series of statements, the Saudi defence ministry said it had thwarted repeated missile launches at an air base which houses US military personnel and drone attacks at a major oil field.