Kuwait Temporarily Closes Airspace, Diverts Flights to Alternate Airports - Reports

NAMPA / Sputnik
2026-06-11
(Adds information about reopening of airspace in paras 2-3) MOSCOW, June 11 (RIA Novosti) - Kuwait has temporarily closed its airspace, and flights have been diverted to alternate airports, Al Jazeera reported. The emirate's General Authority for Civil Aviation said later in the day that the country had reopened its airspace after "the circumstances that required precautionary measures had been resolved," Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) reported. Accor......
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