A hostile drone hit Kuwait's Abdali border crossing with Iraq on Thursday afternoon, causing material damage but no loss of life, the Kuwaiti Defence Ministry said. The incident was described as the second drone attack on the northern crossing that day.
Ministry spokesperson Major General Saud Abdulaziz Al-Otaibi said specialist teams moved quickly to secure the facility in coordination with other authorities. Kuwaiti Land Force inspection and explosive-ordnance personnel began examining the site and removing fragments from the aircraft under established technical procedures. Their work was intended to make sure no further hazard remained.
Officials did not identify who launched the drone in the statements supplied for this report. The ministry used the term hostile, but released no evidence assigning responsibility, no description of the aircraft and no detailed inventory of the property damage. The lack of casualties was confirmed in both cited accounts.
Abdali is a civilian border connection between Kuwait and Iraq. Damage there occurred during a larger confrontation in which Iran had been launching missiles and drones against American military installations and infrastructure in Kuwait in response to repeated US attacks on Iranian territory. That background raises security concerns, but it does not by itself establish the origin of the drone that struck the crossing.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had separately claimed broad attacks on four sites—Camp Doha, Camp Arifjan, Camp Udairi and the Ali Al Salem airfield. It said ammunition stores, logistics sites and air defences were hit. The Kurdistan24 report also described previous Iranian attacks affecting power and water facilities. Those claims and incidents were not independently tied to Abdali in the evidence packet.
Kuwait's armed forces said they remained on continuous alert and would protect the country's borders and stability. The immediate response at the crossing combined security control with debris handling, an important step because crashed unmanned aircraft may leave explosive or technical hazards even after impact. The source did not say whether traffic through the facility was suspended or when normal operations would resume.
The incident therefore has a narrow confirmed outline amid a much wider conflict: an unmanned aircraft struck the Abdali installation, physical damage resulted, nobody was killed, and military teams began clearing the scene. Attribution and the full operational effect await further official investigation.
Kuwaiti personnel treated the wreckage as potentially dangerous even after confirming there were no deaths. Surveying, disposal and clearance were distinct tasks in the response. The ministry did not report injuries, evacuations or secondary explosions, and the evidence gave no estimate for repairing the border infrastructure.
