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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Lebanese Christian leader Samir Geagea delivered a verdict Tuesday that many Lebanese have long wanted to hear but few dared to say out loud: Hezbollah is "finished" in Lebanon, and Iran, not the Lebanese state, will foot the bill for the destruction it caused.
Iran named a former Revolutionary Guards commander and senior figure in the hardline political faction on Tuesday to replace the powerful head of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani, killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes last week.
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