Kuwait says drones coming from Iraq target border posts

The Kuwaiti military said on Friday that two drones coming from the direction of neighboring Iraq struck border posts on the countries’ shared frontier, causing damage but no casualties.

No Iraqi group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but Baghdad’s interior minister said it would investigate the incident.

“This morning, two of Kuwait’s northern land border posts were targeted in a criminal act of aggression involving two explosive-laden drones guided by fiber-optic cables, originating from the Republic of Iraq, resulting in material damage but… no human casualties,” the military said in a statement on X.

In a call with his Kuwaiti counterpart, Iraqi Interior Minister Abdel Amir al-Shammari denounced such attacks, saying they “damage the reputation of the fraternal relations between the two countries,” Iraq’s official INA news agency reported.

He said that Iraq had ordered the formation of an investigative committee “to identify those responsible and bring them to justice.”