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Air travel around the world were disrupted on Sunday as continued air strikes kept major Middle Eastern airports, including Dubai closed.
DAILY POST reports that key transit airports including Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the UAE, and Doha in Qatar, were shut.
This is as much of the region’s airspace remained closed, with the Gulf grappling with uncertainty after US and Israeli strikes killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday.
Israel said it launched another wave of strikes on Iran on Sunday, while loud blasts were heard for a second day near Dubai and over Doha, after Iran launched retaliatory air attacks on the neighbouring Gulf states.
Following the strikes, Dubai International Airport sustained damage, while airports in Abu Dhabi and Kuwait were also hit.
According to data on FlightAware, a flight tracking platform, thousands of flights have been affected across the Middle East since the US first launched attacks on Iran on Saturday.
