RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s air defenses intercepted and destroyed a drone in the Eastern Province as Gulf countries reported new attacks on Sunday.
Over the course of Sunday, the Ministry of Defense announced in separate posts on social media platform X that at least 30 drones were intercepted in the Riyadh Region and Eastern Province.
The interception came after six missiles were shot down over Al-Kharj, home to the Prince Sultan Air Base, on Saturday.
The strikes are part of a more than week-long Iranian campaign of nightly missile and drone barrages against Gulf states, launched in retaliation for US and Israeli strikes on targets inside Iran. Attacks have followed a pattern of resuming each evening after several hours of quiet during the day.
The violence has extended beyond Saudi borders.
In Bahrain, explosions lit up the sky over the capital, Manama, early Sunday, according to AFP.
Bahrain's authorities said they have intercepted 125 missiles and 203 drones since Iran's campaign began. The attacks have killed two people in Bahrain and 24 others across neighboring Gulf nations.
In Kuwait, Brigadier General Jadaan Fadel, spokesman for the National Guard, said early Sunday that the nation's defense forces have downed 5 drones during the past 24 hours.
Drones also hit the international airport’s radar system on Saturday night, Kuwait’s Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement.
Flights there have been halted since the start of the war.
The UAE defense ministry on Sunday said they were responding to missile and drone threats from Iran. Air defense systems engaged on Saturday nine Iranian ballistic missiles and 33 drones.
The sounds heard in Marina and Al-Sufouh areas resulted from successful air defense interceptions, the Dubai Media Office posted on X. Iran has called for the evacuations of three major UAE ports, threatening for the first time a neighboring country’s non-US assets.
Since the onsets of the attacks, the UAE has engaged 294 ballistic missiles, 15 cruise missiles and 1,600 drones, the defense ministry said on X, with six fatalities recorded.
