Video footage has captured the moment that Iran hit Dubai Airport in a suicide drone attack.

The drone can be seen travelling through clear skies before disappearing from view.

A huge cloud of smoke can then be seen erupting as the drone makes impact.

The attack caused the entire airport to be evacuated and all operations to be suspended. A fire was reported at Terminal 3.

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By Will Potter

President Trump has privately expressed ‘serious interest’ in deploying US soldiers to Iran, according to military sources.

Trump has told White House advisors that he will need troops on the ground to complete his ‘vision’ for a post-war Iran, which he hopes to control in a similar way to Venezuela, insiders told NBC News.

US officials, who were not named, told the outlet that Trump is not focusing on a full-scale invasion of Iran, but instead would want a small contingent of troops to deploy for strategic purposes.

The conflict has so far involved only air and naval munitions and deploying troops on the ground in Iran would be the first time the US has done so since withdrawing from Afghanistan in 2021.

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Trump ‘seriously considering’ troops on the ground in Iran

Trump has privately told advisors that he believes he will need troops on the ground to complete his ‘vision’ for a post-war Iran, which he hopes to control in a similar way to Venezuela, insiders say.

Iran says it has has targeted an oil tanker with a suicide drone in the Strait of Hormuz, after banning vessels from passing through the vital shipping route.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said today they had targeted the tanker, Prima, which sails under the flag of Malta, with an ‘exploding drone’ after it ignored ‘repeated warnings’.

‘This morning, an oil tanker with the trade name Prima was hit by an exploding drone after ignoring repeated warnings from the IRGC naval forces regarding the prohibition of traffic and the insecurity of the Strait of Hormuz,’ the Guards said in a statement carried by Tasnim news agency.

The Guards earlier said they were ‘waiting’ for US forces to escort ships through the strait.

Members of the US military offloaded equipment from a US Air Force C-5 Galaxy at RAF Fairford last night, after the UK granted permission for America to use its bases for defensive operations.

The biggest plane in the US armoury, its cargo bay can carry two M1 Abrams main battle tanks, six Apache helicopter gunships or up to 36 military vehicles.

It flew in to Gloucestershire from Dyess Air Force Base in Abilene, Texas yesterday ahead of the first B1-bomber to land from the 7th Bomb Wing that is based there.

Operations at Dubai International Airport have ‘partially resumed’, a spokesperson has said.

Some flights are said to be taking off following a drone attack which caused a fire at the airport earlier today.

But passengers were warned schedules ‘continue to change’ and told not to travel to the airport unless their flight had been confirmed.

Earlier, airline Emirates said that some of its services had resumed following the earlier evacuation of the airport.

Armed militia Hezbollah said on Saturday it confronted Israeli troops that infiltrated an east Lebanon town overnight, with Lebanese authorities reporting at least 16 killed in Israeli strikes on the area.

In a statement, Hezbollah said its fighters had ‘observed the infiltration of four Israeli enemy army helicopters from the Syrian direction’.

After landing and disembarking, the advancing troops ‘were engaged’ by a group of Hezbollah fighters as they reached a cemetery in the town of Nabi Sheet, Hezbollah said.

‘The clash escalated after the enemy force was exposed,’ it added, saying the Israeli troops launched intense strikes before evacuating.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, which minutes ago announced a new wave of strikes in the cities of Tehran and Isfahan in Iran.