Amazon said the Bahrain facility was damaged due to a nearby drone strike, and two data centers in the UAE were directly hit by drones.

Iran continued retaliatory strikes on U.S. allies around the Persian Gulf on Thursday, sparking fires in Bahrain, Oman and the UAE. This strike at a fuel storage facility in Muharraq, Bahrain

Aluminium Bahrain BSC, which runs the world’s largest single-site smelter of the metal, has started a phased production shutdown to conserve raw-material supplies.

Bahrain has taken some of the hardest hits from Iran, with targets including military and oil installations, a desalination plant and a high-rise apartment building. The island nation is about the size of New York City with a population equivalent to that of Phoenix.

Formula 1 says it is watching the conflict in the Middle East after Iran launched a wave of retaliatory missile and drone strikes Saturday against United States military bases in countries that will host F1 races,

Bahrain sustained the largest casualty toll in a single attack when Iranian drones injured 32 people overnight, including four children.

Bahrain faces economic collapse as Iran's retaliatory strikes damage its oil and aluminium industries, while the Strait of Hormuz closure threatens vital exports.

The Sunni Monarchy, a minority creed in the small nation, seeks to contain a social explosion with the memory of the massive 2011 uprising. The war in Iran, which has escalated to actually put the entire Middle East in check,