DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 Kuwait\u2019s military says it has responded to a drone attack as the Iran war\u2019s shaky ceasefire is tested.<\/p>\n
Kuwaiti Defense Ministry spokesman Brig. Gen. Saud Abdulaziz Al Otaibi said that hostile drones entered Kuwait\u2019s airspace early Sunday, and that forces responded \u201c in accordance with established procedures.\u201d<\/p>\n
There were no immediate reports of casualties.<\/p>\n
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP\u2019s earlier story follows below.<\/p>\n
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 A cargo ship caught fire Sunday after being hit by an unknown projectile off Qatar\u2019s coast, the British military said, in the latest attack on vessels in the Persian Gulf since a shaky ceasefire stopped fighting between the U.S. and Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Trump administration says the month-old ceasefire remains in effect. But it has been repeatedly tested with Iran restricting traffic through the Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, a strategic waterway key to the global flow of oil, and the U.S. imposing a blockade of Iranian ports.<\/p>\n Washington has been awaiting Iran\u2019s response to a new proposal for a deal to end the war, reopen the strait to shipping and roll back Iran\u2019s nuclear program.<\/p>\n One of the main sticking points in the negotiations is the fate of Iran\u2019s stockpile of highly enriched uranium. The U.N. nuclear agency says Iran has more than 440 kilograms (970 pounds) of uranium that is enriched up to 60% purity, a short, technical step from weapons-grade levels. <\/p>\n In an interview with Iranian state media, a spokesman for the Iranian military said that forces were on \u201cfull readiness\u201d to protect nuclear sites where the uranium is stored.<\/p>\n \u201cWe considered it possible that they might intend to steal it through infiltration operations or heliborne operations,\u201d Brig. Gen. Akrami Nia told the IRNA news agency late Saturday. He didn\u2019t offer further details.<\/p>\n The majority of Iran\u2019s highly enriched uranium is likely still at its Isfahan nuclear complex, International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi told The Associated Press last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Isfahan facility was bombarded by U.S.-Israeli airstrikes in the 12-day war last year, and faced less intense attacks in this year\u2019s war.<\/p>\n In Sunday\u2019s naval attack, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Centre said that the strike caused a small fire on the ship, which was extinguished. The attack happened 23 nautical miles (43 kilometers) northeast of Qatar\u2019s capital, Doha, the UKMTO said.<\/p>\n There were no reported casualties, it said. It gave no details on the owner or origin of the ship, and there was no claim of responsibility.<\/p>\n But there have been several attacks against ships in the Persian Gulf over the past week. On Friday, the U.S. struck two Iranian oil tankers after it said that the vessels were trying to breach its blockade of Iran\u2019s ports.<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard navy on Sunday reiterated its warning that any attack on Iranian oil tankers<\/a> or commercial vessels would be met with a \u201cheavy assault\u201d on one of the U.S. bases in the region and enemy ships.<\/p>\n U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> has reiterated threats<\/a> to resume full-scale bombing, if Iran doesn\u2019t accept an agreement to reopen the strait and roll back its nuclear program. Iran has mostly blocked the critical waterway for global energy since joint strikes on Feb. 28 by the U.S. and Israel launched the war, which has caused a global spike in fuel prices and rattling world markets<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 Kuwait\u2019s military says it has responded to a drone attack as the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":786252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3881,64,69,56270,57,83,3461,6087,32301,8132,13342,50,365,96,103,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-786251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-ap-top-news","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-drone-surveillance-and-warfare","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-iran","14":"tag-iran-government","15":"tag-iran-war","16":"tag-kuwait","17":"tag-military-and-defense","18":"tag-military-technology","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-religion","21":"tag-war-and-unrest","22":"tag-world","23":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116549635740647073","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}