EU tells airlines to avoid Jordan as US, Iran trade strikes

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency has asked airlines not to operate within the airspace of Jordan after it and other US Gulf allies were struck by Iran in the renewed conflict.

The agency last week reinstated and toughened its warning to airlines operating in the Middle East, telling them to avoid the airspace of Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates and over the Gulf of Oman as the US-Iran war flared up anew.

The advisory for the Middle East countries was extended on Wednesday to August 31 from the previous July 29 deadline, while the newly issued advisory for Jordan is also valid until August 31, EASA said.

Iran’s army said it attacked US military facilities in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain with drones early on Wednesday.

The army said it struck accommodation buildings and equipment storage facilities at Al Azraq Air Base in Jordan and later hit equipment warehouses and aircraft maintenance hangars at Sheikh Isa Air Base in Bahrain using Arash suicide drones.