{"id":76154,"date":"2026-03-16T10:03:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/?p=76154"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:20:09","slug":"dubai-international-airport-temporarily-closed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/news\/76154","title":{"rendered":"Dubai International Airport temporarily closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Dubai International Airport has been temporarily closed. Dubai authorities said the flights were suspended as a precaution to ensure the safety of passengers and staff. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier, officials said they were trying to control the fire near the airport. According to the Dubai Media Office, a drone attack on Monday caused a fire in a fuel tank near the airport. <\/p>\n<p>Dubai International Airport was the busiest airport in the world for passengers since the war between the US-Israel and Iran erupted in late February. According to the BBC, in 2025, about 90 million passengers traveled here. <\/p>\n<p>Missile and drone attacks have intensified in the Gulf region since the US-Israel war that began on February 28. Since then, the Gulf Arab countries have faced more than two thousand missile and drone attacks. <\/p>\n<p>The targets include not only U.S. diplomatic missions and military bases, but also oil infrastructure, ports, airports, hotels, residences, and office buildings. <\/p>\n<p>The UAE, which normalized diplomatic relations with Israel in 2020, has been the hardest hit by these attacks. <\/p>\n<p>However, other Arab countries in the Gulf have also been affected. And all of them have criticized Iran. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Dubai International Airport has been temporarily closed. Dubai authorities said the flights were suspended as a precaution to ensure the safety of passengers and staff. Earlier, officials said they were trying to control the fire near the airport. According to the Dubai Media Office, a drone attack on Monday caused a fire in a<a href=\"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/news\/76154\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Dubai International Airport temporarily closed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":76147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"acf":[],"publishedDateNp":"\u0968 \u091a\u0948\u0924\u094d\u0930 \u0968\u0966\u096e\u0968, \u0938\u094b\u092e\u092c\u093e\u0930 \u0967\u0966:\u0966\u0969","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76155,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76154\/revisions\/76155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/76147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}