Explosions rock Dubai, Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait as war spreads across Middle East
Source: The Guardian
Sat 28 Feb 2026 23.28 EST
First published on Sat 28 Feb 2026 14.06 EST
Iran struck the world-famous Fairmont hotel in Dubai, setting the hotel alight, as the war launched by the US and Israel on Iran quickly spread to the rest of the Middle East on Saturday.
Residents watched in shock as an Iranian missile hit the five-star hotel in Dubai's luxurious Palm Jumeirah area. Social media videos showed fires breaking out near the entrance of the hotel, which led to four people being injured.
Later Dubai authorities said debris from an intercepted drone caused a fire at the city's famous luxury hotel the Burj Al Arab and Dubai's international airport. Abu Dhabi Airports said in a post on X that an incident at Zayed international airport in the UAE's capital resulted in one fatality and seven injuries. It later deleted the post.
"Civil Defence teams responded immediately and brought the incident under control. No injuries have been reported," the Dubai media office wrote on its X account. The media office also said that part of Dubai's international airport "sustained minor damage in an incident," without giving further details. One Dubai resident said that "everyone is very scared" as the situation continued to deteriorate.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/28/dubais-famous-fairmont-hotel-in-flames-after-iranian-air-strike
You have a shit-load of high-income and high-flying business folk who travel, work, and live in the Emirates and Qatar and those countries spent so much of their oil wealth building taller and taller monstrosity skyscrapers. Dubai has supposedly the largest indoor ski resort. One "suicide drone" through the roof and that's the end of it.
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