FILE- Security officers stand beneath a screen displaying portraits of the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah (R), and the Kuwaiti crown prince, Sheikh Sabah al-Khaled al-Hamad al-Sabah, at Kuwait International Airport in Kuwait City. AFP
Kuwait Health ministry spokesman Abdullah al-Sanad said 25 ambulances were dispatched at Kuwait International Airport, adding that "63 injured individuals were received and distributed among hospitals... This includes serious injuries... including head wounds, cerebral hemorrhages, amputations and injuries resulting from explosions."
An airport source told AFP that the death in Kuwait was that of an Indian national at the airport.
Earlier, Kuwait said Iranian attacks on its territory killed one person and wounded several others, forcing its airport to close and damaging unnamed diplomatic missions.
Kuwait's foreign ministry condemned the attacks "that once again targeted vital and civilian infrastructure, including Kuwait International Airport, killing one person and injuring others, in addition to causing damage to vital infrastructure, including diplomatic missions".
"The General Authority of Civil Aviation announced on Wednesday the resumption of all Kuwait Airways flights only, from Kuwait International Airport," it said in a statement.
Earlier, Kuwait's state news agency said civil aviation authorities had suspended traffic and transferred arriving flights to alternative airports after "Terminal One came under Iranian attacks, causing casualties and damage".
Kuwait, a US ally, has been on the receiving end of Iranian attacks since the United States and Israel attacked Iran in late February.
On the other side, Iran accused Kuwait and Bahrain of allowing the United States to use their territory to launch attacks on an Iranian tanker and island, as it condemned Washington for the strikes. A military adviser to Iran's supreme leader warned on Wednesday of more missile and drone strikes should the United States renew its attacks on Iran.
Kuwait and other Arab Gulf countries have denied allowing the US to use their territories for attacks on Iran.
Tehran's warnings followed US strikes on an Iranian tanker and on Iran's Qeshm island.
Earlier on Wednesday, the US military said that it had "successfully defeated" a series of Iranian missile and drone attacks in the Gulf and conducted what it called self-defense strikes on Iran's Qeshm Island.
US Central Command also denied reports that Iran's Revolutionary Guards had struck the headquarters of the US Navy's Fifth Fleet in Bahrain and a separate air base in the region.
"Iran launched several ballistic missiles toward regional neighbors; however, all failed to hit their intended targets," Centcom said in a statement.
"Two Iranian missiles fired at Kuwait fell short or broke apart en route, and three missiles launched at Bahrain were immediately intercepted by US and Bahrain air defense forces."
Kuwait's military said its air defenses were intercepting "hostile" missile and drone attacks.
Later, Centcom said an "additional wave of Iranian drones attempting to attack US forces in Kuwait failed to impact intended targets," with several drones shot down.
The US military also shot down three attack drones that had been launched by Iran "toward civilian mariners that were rightfully transiting regional waters," Centcom said.
Qeshm Island is located in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the key shipping channel for Gulf oil and gas that has been effectively closed since the start of the war.
Centcom said the strikes had targeted an "Iranian military ground control station" on the island, adding that no US personnel were injured.
In a statement carried by the official IRNA news agency, the Revolutionary Guards claimed they had struck the US military installations in response to the strike on Qeshm Island.
"FALSE," Centcom said in a post on X. "All Iranian attacks on American forces failed."
A ceasefire has been in place between the United States and Iran since April 8, but subsequent talks to try to put a more permanent end to the conflict have so far been unsuccessful.
Tehran said Monday that Israel's expanding campaign in Lebanon risked ending the US-Iran ceasefire.
Earlier, US forces fired a missile at a ship that was attempting to sail toward an Iranian port in violation of an American blockade, disabling the vessel.
Washington has now forcibly halted six ships it said were attempting to violate the blockade, which has been in place since April 13.
The attacks marked one of the more severe tests yet of a fragile April 8 ceasefire, which has largely held despite sporadic strikes after more than a month of war sparked by the US and Israeli attack on Iran.
*This story was edited by Ahram Online.
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