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The Latest: UAE briefly closes airspace as Israel strikes Beirut and Tehran

APTOPIX Emirates Iran US Israel - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

A drone attack in the United Arab Emirates sparked a fire at an oil tank farm Tuesday in Fujairah, an emirate on the country’s east coast with the Gulf of Oman that has been repeatedly targeted, the state-run WAM news agency reported. It said no one had been injured in the blast.

This came after a brief closure of the UAE's airspace when the military reported it was “responding to missile and drone threats from Iran.”

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