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In the country's initial comments Sunday, March 1, afterthe killing of Iranian leader Ali Khamenei,China's foreign ministry called the attacks "a grave violation of Iran's sovereignty and security" and denounced them as an infringement on the "principles of the UN Charter and basic norms in international relations." Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning saidChina was not informed in advanceabout the strikes.

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On Monday, March 2, China's foreign minister held calls with his counterparts in Oman and Iran, reiterating the country's opposition and calling for the resumption of talks to prevent further escalation.

Iran launched retaliatory drone and missile strikes against American and Israeli targets after the joint U.S.-Israeli attack. Iran said its enemies would be "decisively defeated." Photos show reported attacks in Bahrain and Qatar.

Smoke rises after the state news agency reported missile attack on the service center of the U.S. Fifth Fleet, following strikes by the United States and Israel against Iran, in Manama, Bahrain February 28, 2026, in this still image obtained from a video.

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Iran launchedretaliatory drone and missile strikesagainst American and Israeli targets after the joint U.S.-Israeli attack. Iran said its enemies would be "decisively defeated." Photos show reported attacks in Bahrain and Qatar.Smoke rises after the state news agency reported missile attack on the service center of the U.S. Fifth Fleet, following strikes by the United States and Israel against Iran, in Manama, Bahrain February 28, 2026, in this still image obtained from a video.

The United States and Israel began striking Iran on Saturday, Feb. 28, in a campaign thatkilled the nation's supreme leader. PresidentDonald Trumpsaid the operation killed dozens of top officials and hit more than 1,000 targets inside the country. Iran and its allied militias, such as Hezbollah, have retaliated with strikes against Israel and U.S. military bases across the Middle East. Iran's targets have included several major Gulf cities, including Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha. Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi told Al Jazeera the strikes are not targeting Iran's Gulf neighbors, but rather the U.S. assets in the region.

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Thedeath tollhas continued to climb while airstrikes continued in the region. So far, four U.S. service members have been killed, according to the Pentagon. Hundreds of people have been killed across nine nations, according to numbers reported by Al Jazeera, citing aid organizations, government officials and local media outlets. The vast majority of those were in Iran, the outlet has reported. Officials from the Iranian Red Crescent said 555 people were killed and hundreds have been injured there.

One Chinese citizen was also killed in the U.S.-Israeli strikes that hit Iran's capital Tehran, according toReuters. The country's foreign ministry said that as of March 2, more than 3,000 Chinese citizens have been evacuated from Iran.

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In the face of the broadening conflict, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in a call with Omani Foreign Minister Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi that China supports the Gulf nations in "safeguarding their sovereignty and national security," according to an official statement summarizing the conversation.

Yi also expressed hope that the Gulf states would "oppose foreign interference," in a nod to the expanding conflict that has now touched more than a half-dozen nations.

China has strong economic ties with Iran and many of the Gulf states. It is the largest trading partner for many countries in the region, amplified by the area's energy resources and critical global trading routes. Oman has long been a diplomatic broker in the region, in particular between the United States and Iran.

Oman, which straddles the Strait of Hormuz opposite Iran, served as one of the key interlocutors during U.S.-Iranian negotiations that led to former President Barack Obama's 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal. Oman has also been facilitating attempts atnegotiations between the United States and Iranover the past several months.

In his call with Iran's foreign minister, Yi reiterated China's support of "sovereignty, security, territorial integrity," according to a Chinese ministry statement. Yi also urged Iran to pay attention to the "legitimate concerns" of its neighbors in the region.

"While positive progress has been made in the current negotiations, the U.S. actions violate all international law and cross Iran's red lines," the statement said. "Iran has no choice but to defend itself with all its might. China has publicly expressed its position of fairness and justice and hopes to continue playing a positive role in preventing the escalation of regional tensions."

Kathryn Palmer is a politics reporter for USA TODAY. You can reach her atkapalmer@usatoday.comand on X @KathrynPlmr. Sign up for her daily politics newsletterhere.

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Iran US Next Supreme Leader

It's only the second time sincethe 1979 Islamic Revolutionthat a new supreme leader is being chosen. Potential candidates range from hard-liners committed to confrontation with the West to reformists who seek diplomatic engagement.

The supreme leader has the final say on all major decisions, including war, peace and the country'sdisputed nuclear program.

In the meantime, a provisional governing council composed of President Masoud Pezeshkian, hard-line judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei and senior Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ali Reza Arafi is guiding the country through its biggest crisis in decades. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday that a new supreme leader would be chosen early this week.

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The supreme leader is appointed by an 88-member panel called theAssembly of Experts, who by law are supposed to quickly name a successor. The panel consists of Shiite clerics who are popularly elected after their candidacies are approved by the Guardian Council, Iran's constitutional watchdog.

Khamenei had major influence over both clerical bodies, making it unlikely the next leader will mark a radical departure.

Here are the top contenders.

Mojtaba Khamenei

The son of Khamenei, a mid-level Shiite cleric, is widely considered a potential successor. He has strong ties to Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard but has never held office. His selection could prove awkward, as the Islamic Republic has long criticized hereditary rule and cast itself as a more just alternative.

Ayatollah Ali Reza Arafi

Arafi is a member of the provisional government council. The senior Shiite cleric was handpicked by Khamenei to be a member of the Guardian Council in 2019, and three years later he was elected to the Assembly of Experts. He leads a network of seminaries.

Hassan Rouhani

Rouhani, a relative moderate, was president of Iran from 2013 to 2021 and reached the landmark nuclear agreement with the Obama administration that U.S. President Donald Trumpscrapped during his first term. Rouhani served on the Assembly of Experts until 2024, when he said he was disqualified from running for reelection. Rouhani criticized it as an infringement on Iranians' political participation.Hassan KhomeiniKhomeini is the most prominent grandson of the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. He is also seen as a relative moderate, but has never held government office. He currently works at his grandfather's mausoleum in Tehran.Ayatollah Mohammed Mehdi MirbagheriMirbagheri is a senior cleric popular with hard-liners who serves on the Assembly of Experts.He was close to the late Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, a fellow hard-liner who wrote that Iran should not deprive itself of the right to produce "special weapons," a veiled reference to nuclear arms.During the COVID-19 pandemic, Mirbagheri denounced the closure of schools as a "conspiracy."He is currently the head of the Islamic Cultural Center in Qom, the main center for Islamic teaching in Iran.

Rouhani, a relative moderate, was president of Iran from 2013 to 2021 and reached the landmark nuclear agreement with the Obama administration that U.S. President Donald Trumpscrapped during his first term. Rouhani served on the Assembly of Experts until 2024, when he said he was disqualified from running for reelection. Rouhani criticized it as an infringement on Iranians' political participation.

Hassan Khomeini

Khomeini is the most prominent grandson of the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. He is also seen as a relative moderate, but has never held government office. He currently works at his grandfather's mausoleum in Tehran.

Ayatollah Mohammed Mehdi Mirbagheri

Mirbagheri is a senior cleric popular with hard-liners who serves on the Assembly of Experts.

He was close to the late Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, a fellow hard-liner who wrote that Iran should not deprive itself of the right to produce "special weapons," a veiled reference to nuclear arms.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Mirbagheri denounced the closure of schools as a "conspiracy."

He is currently the head of the Islamic Cultural Center in Qom, the main center for Islamic teaching in Iran.

In an appealbackedby 19 Republican attorneys general from other states, Alabama hadasked the court to decidewhether the Constitution allows criminalizing panhandling.

A homeless man from Montgomery, Jonathan Singleton, successfully challenged the state's panhandling bans as a violation of his free speech rights.

'Today it is me. Tomorrow it could be you'

Singleton was cited six times for violating a state law against soliciting contributions, including for holding a sign that read "HOMELESS. Today it is me, tomorrow it could be you" while standing in the grass near a highway exit.

Violators could be punished with fines up to $500 or three months in jail under one anti-begging law.Another measure sets fines up to $100 or as many as 10 days in jail for soliciting contributions from people in cars.

After Singleton filed a class-action lawsuit in 2020, lower courts blocked enforcement of the laws.

A federal appeals court based in Atlanta cited its previous decision in a different case from Florida that begging is speech protected by the First Amendment.

A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals said Alabama's laws are different from a ban on panhandling on Fort Lauderdale's beaches upheld in 1999,since those restrictions weren't citywide.

Alabama told theSupreme Courtthat officials need more leeway to address panhandling amid the homelessness crisis and a "dramatic growth" in policies aimed at dealing with the problem.

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At the birth of the nation, states banned 'idleness' and 'wandering'

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall argued that begging was a crime at the start of the nation. So it should not be protected speech under the First Amendment.

"At the founding, States commonly prohibited idleness, wandering about with no course of business or fixed residence, begging in the streets, and the like," Marshall wrote in his appeal. "The basic theory, inherited from the English, was to distinguish those who could work [but refused] from those who could not."

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Is begging communication? Courts have said it is protected by First Amendment

Lawyers for Singleton, some of whom work for the Southern Poverty Law Center and the National Homelessness Law Center, countered that the historic laws Alabama cites "criminalized the conduct of voluntary idleness, not the communicative aspect of begging."

And even if they did cover begging, Singleton's lawyers said, First Amendment protections aren't determined by what laws were on the books at a single moment in time.

That's why Alabama's argument cuts against the position taken by courts across the country and against the Supreme Court's "long and unbroken line of precedent recognizing that speech seeking charitable relief is protected by the First Amendment," his lawyers wrote.

When initiating the lawsuit in 2020, theSouthern Poverty Law Center saidAlabama "should dedicate more resources to housing, shelter and health care that would meet those needs rather than jailing or ticketing people that ask for help."

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The victims, including 90 civilians, were attacked on Sunday in Abiemnom county, said James Monyluak, information minister for the administrative area of Ruweng.

He said women and children were among the dead, in addition to dozens of combatants.

The U.N. Mission in South Sudan, known as UNMISS, said in a statement that 1,000 people sought shelter at its base after the attack.

"Such violence places civilians at grave risk and must stop immediately," Anita Kiki Gbeho, a UNMISS official, said in a statement. "I urge all involved to cease hostilities without delay and engage in constructive dialogue to address their grievances."

"Our peacekeepers will continue to do everything within their capabilities to protect civilians seeking refuge at our base," she added.

The UNMISS statement cited 23 wounded in the attack in Ruweng, as well as concern over "reports indicating that dozens of civilians and some local officials have lost their lives."

The killings are part of anescalating wave of violencegripping South Sudan as government forces loyal to President Salva Kiir battle armed men who are believed to be loyal to opposition leader Riek Machar.

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Stephano Wieu De Mialek, the chief administrator of Ruweng Administrative Area, said on Sunday that the assault was conducted by elements linked to the White Army militia alongside forces affiliated with Machar's Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition. Wieu described the attack as a coordinated and organized assault, calling it an act of rebellion.

In a statement, Machar's group denied responsibility for the attack and asserted that it "has no military presence in the area concerned."

Machar was Kiir's deputy until September, when he was removed after he faced criminal charges. He is under house arrest in Juba, the South Sudan capital, as his trial progresses.

The U.S. is urging talks between Kiir and Machar.

Ongoing violence threatens a fragile peace reached in 2018 after a five-year civil war. After that agreement, Machar was named South Sudan's first vice president in a government of national unity. A U.N. inquiry has found that South Sudan's leaders are "systematically dismantling" that agreement.

Machar's supporters say the charges against him for alleged subversion are politically motivated. His removal from office coincided with a sharp increase in violence.

The conflict escalated in December when opposition forces seized government outposts in the county of Jonglei, an opposition stronghold and a flashpoint in renewed fighting that the U.N. estimates has displaced 280,000 people.

Aid groups have warned thataccess restrictionsto opposition-held parts of the state are endangering civilian lives.

The government has conducted a counteroffensive since January with aerial bombardments and ground assaults, despite an official commitment to the peace agreement.

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• The DWTS pro, 39, shared a video message from a hospital room to Instagram on Sunday, March 1

• "Hopefully tomorrow's a day off, I'll be back on Tuesday," he said

Val Chmerkovskiyis sharing an update after he was hospitalized during theDancing With the StarsLive tour.

TheDWTSpro, 39, shared avideo update to Instagramon Sunday, March 1, announcing that he was currently in a hospital in Peoria, Illinois, after experiencing vertigo while on the road with his fellowDWTSstandouts.

Chmerkovskiy and crew were scheduled for their gig at the Prairie Home Alliance Theater on Sunday before the dancer sought medical help.

"I've just been having vertigo for the past couple of days," Chmerkovskiy revealed. "And had it yesterday. I was able to get though the show and then we ran some tests. And then, again, we're on the bus so I guess... once that little crystal in your equilibrium — I mean I'm learning a lot — once it goes out, it's really hard to get it back in."

"And so I'm just spinning everywhere," he added. "So on the bus when it's moving, you know, I woke up and I just couldn't get myself together. So hopefully tomorrow's a day off, I'll be back on Tuesday. Love you, thank you."

Elsewhere in the clip, Chmerkovskiy wrote in overlapping text that he had his bloodwork done and vitals checked, calling the ordeal a "small hiccup" in his caption.

PerThe Mayo Clinic, vertigo is described as "the sudden feeling of spinning or moving." The crystals that Chmerkovskiy was seemingly referring to are held by otolith organs, which "detect the head's movements" in different directions. "When the crystals move, they cause the semicircular canal to become sensitive to certain head position changes. This is what causes the dizziness," per The Mayo Clinic's description of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.

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Plenty ofDWTSpals shared well wishes to Chmerkovskiy in his comments section, including his wifeJenna Johnson Chmerkovskiy, the officialDWTStour page and season 34 alumDylan Efron.

"Feeling for you Val, Vertigo is awful," Efron, 34, wrote. "Happened to me right beforeDWTSbut it healed quickly. rest up and get those crystals aligned ❤️"

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Before Sunday's gig in Illinois, the official tour Instagram page shared a message to its Instagram Stories, revealing that Val would not be performing "due to an unforeseen and last-minute illness."

"My apologies to all the fans that came out to see us today in Peoria," he wrote in a later post. "Thank you to my fellow castmates for rallying. Little bump in the road l'll be good to go asap."

"It takes quite literally me not being able to stand on my feet to keep me off that stage," he added. "Unfortunately, I just couldn't make it tonight."

The tour will next make its way to the Miller High Life Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Tuesday, March 3.

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APTOPIX Iran US Israel

At the heart of the post-World War II global order — United Nations headquarters in New York — Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Saturday that U.S. and Israeli airstrikes violated international law, including the U.N. Charter. He also condemned Iran's retaliatory attacks for violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of nations in the Mideast.

Officials in the Trump administration insist that the military campaign is a lawful measure to ensure Tehran does not build nuclear weapons. "It's a matter of global security. And to that end, the United States is taking lawful actions," Trump's U.N. ambassador, Mike Waltz, said.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi wrote in a letter to the U.N. on Sunday thatthe killingof Supreme LeaderAyatollah Ali Khamenei"constitutes a grave and unprecedented breach of the most fundamental norms governing relations among States."

On Monday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth bullishly defended the U.S. military campaign. "No stupid rules of engagement, no nation building quagmire, no democracy building exercise, no politically correct wars. We fight to win and we don't waste time or lives," he said at the Pentagon.

The war with Iran comes less than two months after U.S. forces swooped into Caracas to capture former Venezuelan PresidentNicolás Maduroand fly him to New York to face justice.

International law and the US Constitution under pressure

David Crane, an American expert on international law and founding prosecutor of a United Nations court that prosecuted crimes in Sierra Leone, wrote in an analysis that U.S. attacks in Iran and Venezuela "highlight a dangerous trend: the normalization of unilateral force as a tool of foreign policy. Even when the outcome is positive, the violation of international law and constitutional limits sets a precedent that threatens global stability and undermines America's own legal foundations."

In Washington, many Democrats havecalled the strikes illegal. They argue that under the Constitution, only Congress has the power to declare war. They say the Trump administration failed to lay out its rationale or plan for the military strikes, and the aftermath.

Congress hurriedly scheduled awar powers debatefor Monday over Trump's authority tobomb Iran.

The crime of aggression

Under an amendment to the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court, aggression is described as "the use of armed force by a State against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of another State, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Charter of the United Nations."

Among acts of aggression listed by the court are: "Bombardment by the armed forces of a State against the territory of another State or the use of any weapons by a State against the territory of another State."

Neither the United States, Israel nor Iran are members of the court, meaning the court does not have jurisdiction in the ongoing war unless it is referred to ICC prosecutors by a Security Council resolution.

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International legal order

Under the U.N. Charter, nations are only permitted to use force against another nation if it has been authorized by the Security Council or in self-defense, said Marieke de Hoon, an assistant professor of international criminal law at the University of Amsterdam.

De Hoon said the attacks on Iran amount to a crime of aggression.

"It is a violation of the prohibition to use force, the cornerstone of the international legal order, and there is no legal justification for it: it is not a self-defense against an armed attack by Iran or an imminent threat" of an attack, "nor is there a UNSC resolution to authorize use of force," she told The Associated Press. "Regime change moreover violates the sovereignty of another state."

What about Iran

Iranian authorities have a history of brutal repression of dissent and sponsoring extremism that has destabilized the Mideast. The country's nuclear ambitions were targeted by Trump last year in militarystrikes on sites in Iran.

But De Hoon said that is not enough to justify the U.S. and Israeli bombardments.

She said that under international law Tehran has the right to self-defense, but she added that "Iran is not allowed to attack civilian infrastructure in other countries. Its response needs to be proportionate to stop the aggression, without offering itself a legitimation toward, for instance, regime change in the aggressor country."

Crane said that while the removal from power of Maduro and Khamenei could potentially boost regional stability and reduce suffering and ultimately improve the prospects for peace and democracy, "international law does not permit states to unilaterally decide which tyrants to remove by force."

Are assassinations ever legal

Marko Milanovic, a professor of international law at Reading University, said that in peacetime, "it is a clear violation of international law to assassinate the head of state or government of some other state."

He said heads of state and government "enjoy personal immunities and inviolability, and any attacks against them would also violate the sovereignty of their state."

That changes in wartime, he added, saying that if political leaders also are members of the armed forces, "then they are combatants like any other members of the armed forces and are not immune from attack."

Associated Press writer Jovana Gec in Belgrade, Serbia, contributed to this report.

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Governments were scrambling to help their citizens get home after the conflict erupted on Saturday, throwing travel plans into turmoil.

Tourists, business travelers and religious pilgrims found themselves stuck unexpectedly in hotels, airports and on cruise ships, with no word on when many airports would reopen or when flights to and through the Middle East would resume. Governments told stranded citizens to shelter in place.

Airports in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha, which are important hubs for travel between Europe, Africa and the West to Asia, remained closed after they were all directly hit by Iranian strikes.

Emirates, based in Dubai International Airport, one of thebusiest in the world, has suspended its flights until at least 3 p.m. local time Tuesday.

Doha-based Qatar Airways said Monday its flights remain suspended, with its next update planned for Tuesday morning.

Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways has halted all flights until 2 p.m. local time on Tuesday and suspend operations at its hub, Zayed International Airport.

The flight turmoil stretched even farther, with Jordan announcing a partial closure of its airspace.

More than 58,000 Indonesians were stranded in Saudi Arabia, where they were visiting Islam's holy sites of Mecca and Medina on an Umrah pilgrimage during Ramadan.

"It has become an urgent humanitarian and logistical issue," said Ichsan Marsha, spokesperson for Indonesia's Ministry of Hajj and Umrah, which is coordinating with Saudi authorities, airlines and Indonesian travel operators to arrange alternative routes or rescheduled flights.

About 30,000 German tourists are currently stranded on cruise ships, in hotels or at closed airports in the Middle East and cannot get back home because of the conflict.

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said late Sunday a military evacuation wasn't possible because of airspace closures and that the government was looking into other options to help bring citizens home. He said everyone should follow advice from German travel agencies and local authorities.

The German Travel Association called on tourists to "remain at their booked hotels as a matter of urgency" and not "make their own way to the airport or to a neighboring country."

Other governments made similar recommendations.

The Czech Republic is sending two planes to Egypt and Jordan to bring home Czech nationals, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said. One will pick up 79 Czechs in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm El Sheikh who want to return from Israel. They are traveling from Israel to Egypt by bus. The other plane will evacuate Czechs from Amman, Jordan. Babiš said there are some 6,700 Czechs in the region.

Four more planes are heading to Muscat and Salalah in Oman to fly home Czech tourists.

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Britain is preparing for all options, including possible evacuation of Britons in the Middle East, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said.

"We are setting up the support systems," told Sky News, when asked if Britain was preparing for an evacuation. "We're working on every possible option." More than 102,00 Britons in the region have registered their presence with the U.K. government since the conflict erupted on the weekend.

In Asia, thousands of travelers were stranded on Indonesia's tourist island of Bali because international flights were canceled.

Bali's international airport said at least 15 flights, including eight departures and seven arrivals, on routes to Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi were canceled as of Monday afternoon. Airline data showed 3,197 departing passengers were affected by the disruptions, airport spokesperson Gede Eka Sandi Asmadi said.

Air France canceled flights to and from Tel Aviv, Beirut, Dubai and Riyadh, while carriers from Air India to KLM suspended flights and issued advisories.

U.S. airlines issued travel advisories and upended global transportation roiled the travel sector in financial markets early Monday, including the shares of airlines that fly globally. United, Delta and American all slid 5% to 6% and global hotel chains tumbled. Cruise lines like Carnival fell even harder.

Iran's attacks on its Arab neighbors on the other side of the Persian Gulf are dealing a serious, if temporary, blow to their status as key nodes on the world's travel map.

The Gulf's shimmering and globalized cities depend on a steady influx of flights carrying foreigners – both tourists and resident workers – and cargo to keep their economies humming. That's fueled the growth of Gulf airline brands including Emirates, Qatar Airways and Etihad Airways.

Those long-haul airlines and a handful of smaller carriers typically pack the skies over the Gulf and have turned their hubs into some of the busiest international airports in the world.

Now their flights are grounded along with those of other airlines whose planes were in the region when airspace was shut. Gulf airliners are scattered in airports the world over without an easy way to get home.

Dubai International Airport handled a record 95.2 million passengers last year, ensuring its status as the world's busiest airport when measured by international travel. It's second only to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport overall.

One of Dubai International's concourses sustained what authorities called "minor damage" during an Iranian attack Sunday that left four people there injured.

Authorities in the UAE are paying all "hosting and accommodation costs" for affected passengers, the General Civil Aviation Authority announced in a statement carried by official Emirati news agency WAM.

It said that as of Sunday the country had handled around 20,200 passengers affected by rescheduled flights.

Schreck reported from Bangkok. AP writers Kirsten Grieshaber in Berlin, Karel Janicek in Prague, Sam Magdy in Cairo, and Niniek Karmini in Jakarta contributed to this report.