British people currently in any of six popular countries are being urged to contact the Foreign Office now.

10:45, Mon, Mar 2, 2026 Updated: 10:46, Mon, Mar 2, 2026

Skyline of Manama dominated by the World trade Center building during night, Bahrain.

Brits in six countries have been issued an urgent warning (Image: Getty)

British people in 6 popular countries are being urged to ‘register their presence’ with the UK government after the latest escalation in the war in the Middle East. A missile strike in Cyprus, as well as attacks in other Middle Eastern countries, following the US bombing of Iran, have led to an urgent warning from the UK Foreign Office.

The Foreign Office has now issued urgent instructions to British nationals in six key countries: Bahrain, Israel, Kuwait, Palestine, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

Those in the affected countries are being told to ‘register your presence with the UK government’.

To do so, you need to give the Foreign Office your email address and phone number and UK Passport number.

The Government has used the registration scheme before to provide urgent updates to people affected by international crises, but it has not previously needed to deal with so many people in so many different countries.

Ms Cooper told BBC Breakfast: “The latest figure I have from this morning is we have 102,000 people (who) have responded to our proposal to ask people to register their presence so we know where they are, particularly in these Gulf countries that have been targeted so we know where they are and so that we can get them rapid information.

“In many of these countries the airspace is currently closed because of the Iranian attacks.

“This is deeply stressful obviously for people because we’re talking about a lot of people who are holidaymakers, who were transit passengers just passing through or people on business visits to the region and who we want to make sure can get safely home.”

It is understood any repatriation of UK nationals would likely be organised by the Foreign Office, with one potential route involving people travelling by land to Saudi Arabia from where they could board flights.

The Civil Aviation Authority oversaw mass repatriations of customers affected by the collapse of travel companies Monarch and Thomas Cook as they involved many holidaymakers protected by the Atol scheme.

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Airspace closures in the Middle East have resulted in a number of commercial flights being grounded since the attacks began on Saturday.

Nearly half of the flights scheduled to depart from London Heathrow to the region on Sunday were cancelled.