{"id":445068,"date":"2026-06-04T00:06:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/kuwait-international-airport-drone-strike\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T00:06:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:06:30","slug":"one-dead-after-drone-strike-hits-kuwait-international-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=445068","title":{"rendered":"One Dead After Drone Strike Hits Kuwait International Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the military activities relating to the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3613047\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/2026-iran-aviation-crisis\/\"  >2026 Iran Crisis<\/a><\/span> continuing to cause disruption in the Middle East on both an operational and a human level, Kuwait Airport (KWI) has become the latest high-profile aviation casualty of the ongoing conflict. The facility was among the buildings attacked by Iranian drones earlier today in retaliation to overnight US strikes, killing one person on the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the attack, Kuwaiti airspace has already reopened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19759,396,475,3738,20378,1695,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2026-iran-crisis","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-kuwait","category-kuwait-international-airport","category-middle-east","category-military"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=445068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445069,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445068\/revisions\/445069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=445068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=445068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=445068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}