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.
By Mariam Al Mualla
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President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the renewed U.S. campaign against Iran would not continue for "too long" after the biggest exchange of fire between Tehran and Washington since July.
Residents of Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta took to the streets on Wednesday to protest the handling by Madrid of a migration crisis caused by a deadly border surge in July when at least 72,000 people crossed from Morocco.
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