Aya Batraoui

It's a very surreal moment because I'm standing in a five-star luxury hotel ballroom where the government has brought select press to come and to attend a press conference where they have been giving us some more information about

their position, their policies, domestic and international, right now in the midst of this war.

But also, they've brought fragments in front of me, right before me.

I can see them, charred, burnt fragments of some of the more than 185 missiles and hundreds of drones that they have intercepted since the start of this war, fired from Iran at the UAE.

And they say nearly all of this has been intercepted.

And the three deaths that have been recorded so far in the

Debris not from any direct hit.

Yeah, so here in Dubai, my apartment rattled with the sound of loud booms on Saturday.

To say that this was unexpected is an understatement.

Dubai is billed as a safe haven, a luxury destination, and it's never been targeted by missiles like this before.

But drones have also been launched by Iran and its neighbors.

I want you to have a listen to what that sounded like in Bahrain, where a drone struck a residential building there over the weekend.

So that was one of several verified videos online of that one attack.

And, you know, despite these hits, the numbers of casualties have actually been very low at this point, with most drones and missiles intercepted.

But this morning, Kuwait's defense ministry says several U.S.

warplanes crashed and that crews were safe after ejecting.

But the circumstances around that are still unclear.

And this comes after three U.S.

troops, as you heard already, were killed and five seriously wounded as part of a ground support team in Kuwait over the weekend.

And Iran's missiles also got through defenses and they hit an air base in Qatar where there are thousands of U.S.