To­ba­go stu­dent Ray­lon Tay­lor re­mains strand­ed in Abu Dhabi as mil­i­tary con­flict in the Mid­dle East has ground­ed thou­sands of flights.

The 19-year-old New York Uni­ver­si­ty stu­dent left for the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates (UAE) cap­i­tal on Feb­ru­ary 23 to at­tend a school func­tion and was sched­uled to re­turn home on Sun­day. How­ev­er, war be­tween the US-Is­rael al­liance and Iran has af­fect­ed the en­tire re­gion, with bombs be­ing dropped on US bases and in­fra­struc­ture in neigh­bour­ing coun­tries.

Ac­cord­ing to in­ter­na­tion­al re­ports, the Abu Dhabi’s Za­yed In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port was hit by a drone, re­sult­ing in one per­son be­ing killed and sev­en oth­ers in­jured. Dubai, the most pop­u­lar city in the UAE and a haven for tourists, was hit with bal­lis­tic mis­siles and drones.