{"id":222147,"date":"2026-07-25T11:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T11:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/222147\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T11:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T11:06:08","slug":"kuwait-border-drone-attacks-wont-disrupt-iraq-ties-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/222147\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait: Border drone attacks won\u2019t disrupt Iraq ties &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-07-25T10:47:30+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Basra<\/p>\n<p>Kuwait\u2019s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of<br \/>\nInterior, Sheikh Fahad Yousef Saud Al-Sabah, pledged on Saturday to confront<br \/>\nattempts to undermine relations with Iraq, stressing that recent security<br \/>\nincidents would not disrupt trade, travel, or cooperation between the two<br \/>\ncountries.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking alongside Basra Governor Asaad Al-Eidani at<br \/>\nthe Safwan border crossing, Al-Sabah said the relationship between Iraq and Kuwait<br \/>\n\u201cgoes beyond friendship; whatever happens, we will remain brothers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also expected the Abdaly border crossing to resume<br \/>\nnormal operations within 48 hours after authorities complete follow-up measures<br \/>\nrelated to the recent drone strike.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Eidani welcomed the Kuwaiti delegation, calling the<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/Security\/Iraq-Kuwait-convene-at-Safwan-crossing-after-drone-strikes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">visit<\/a> \u201ca sign of continued cooperation,\u201d and noted that regional instability<br \/>\nhad affected both Iraq and Kuwait.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Kuwait\u2019s Ministry of Defense reported<br \/>\nthat repeated \u201chostile drone\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/Security\/New-strike-targets-Abdali-border-crossing-between-Iraq-and-Kuwait\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">strikes<\/a> damaged the Abdaly border crossing<br \/>\nwithout causing casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Safwan-Abdaly is the only land crossing between Iraq<br \/>\nand Kuwait and a key route for passenger and commercial traffic. Iraqi<br \/>\nauthorities temporarily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/society\/Baghdad-shuts-Kuwait-crossing-after-drone-strikes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">closed<\/a> the Safwan crossing and evacuated employees as a<br \/>\nsafety measure, although no damage was reported on the Iraqi side, Basra<br \/>\nProvincial Council Security Committee Chairman Aqeel Al-Freiji told Shafaq News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-07-25T10:47:30+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Basra Kuwait\u2019s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[63818,152,94,35,63816,63817,50926],"class_list":["post-222147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-abdaly-border","tag-breaking","tag-iraq","tag-kuwait","tag-kuwait-border-drone-attacks-wont-disrupt-iraq-ties","tag-safwan-border","tag-ties"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116980297443452325","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}