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Kuwait says responding to 'hostile' missile, drone attacks

Explosions over Kuwait attributed to air defence response to attacks

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Kuwait's air defences were intercepting "hostile missile and drone attacks", its military said early on Thursday.

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"The General Staff of the Army notes that any explosions heard are a result of air defense systems intercepting hostile attacks," the Kuwait military said in a post on X, without specifying their origin.

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