A drone strike at the United Arab Emirates' key oil trading hub of Fujairah sparked a large fire on Monday, authorities said, days after a similar attack in the same emirate, as Iran urged workers at several UAE ports to 'evacuate as soon as possible'.
The attacks are unfolding against the backdrop of an escalating confrontation between Iran on one side and the US and Israel on the other, with the Strait of Hormuz — already one of the world's most fragile energy choke points — now seeing traffic 'virtually ground to a halt' since US and Israeli strikes on Iran on 28 February.
