The United Arab Emirates' Defense Ministry confirmed Tuesday that a Moroccan national working as a contractor for the UAE was killed during what it described as "a routine mission », correcting earlier reports that suggested the victim was an Emirati soldier.
Manama, Bahrain © Mena Today
The United Arab Emirates' Defense Ministry confirmed Tuesday that a Moroccan national working as a contractor for the UAE was killed during what it described as "a routine mission », correcting earlier reports that suggested the victim was an Emirati soldier.
Five UAE soldiers were also wounded in the attack, the ministry added.
The incident occurred in Bahrain, one of the Gulf states that has been systematically targeted by Iranian missile and drone attacks since the war began on February 28.
Bahrain, home to the US Navy's Fifth Fleet, has been on high alert throughout the conflict, intercepting multiple waves of Iranian projectiles and issuing repeated emergency alerts to its civilian population.
The death of a Moroccan contractor working for the UAE in Bahrain underscores a reality that official military casualty figures often obscure: this war is killing people far beyond its declared frontlines.
Contractors, logistics workers, port employees, airport staff, the hundreds of thousands of non-combatants who keep Gulf military and civilian infrastructure running, are now squarely in the line of fire of Iran's indiscriminate campaign against Gulf states.
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The United States expressed confidence that peace talks with Iran would go ahead in Pakistan and a senior Iranian official said Tehran was considering joining, but significant hurdles and uncertainty remained as the end of a ceasefire loomed.
Ships were largely avoiding the Strait of Hormuz on Monday after an escalation at the weekend in which Iran fired what appeared to be warning shots at vessels and the U.S. military seized an Iranian cargo ship.
In a characteristically combative post on Truth Social, US President Donald Trump has pushed back against media narratives surrounding the conflict with Iran, while doubling down on his conviction that Tehran must never acquire a nuclear weapon and openly calling for regime change.
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