The US is sending a Patriot missile battery and four ground-based radar systems to Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon said Thursday, in what officials describe as the first steps to help the kingdom protect itself against Iranian attacks.
Egypt’s government is bracing for a repeat of last Friday’s protests when hundreds of people took to the streets in Cairo, Alexandria, Suez and other cities, to demand the overthrow of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
Syrian forces used chemical weapons during an attack in Latakia province in May, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday.
The US has taken its sanctions campaign against Iran to unseen heights as the possibility of a meeting between President Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani disappeared at the UN General Assembly this week.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the threat posed by Iran and Britain’s fraught exit from the European Union are likely topics Thursday as world leaders gather for a third day of speeches at the United Nations.
Egyptian authorities have arrested more than 1,000 people, two rights groups said Wednesday, in the wake of rare anti-government protests last week.
President Trump used his address at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday to send a strong pro-life message, telling the world body that ‘global bureaucrats have absolutely no business attacking the sovereignty of nations that wish to protect innocent life.’
The leaders of Britain, France, and Germany have backed the United States in assertions that Iran is to blame for the attack on Saudi oil facilities and urged Tehran to choose dialogue over ‘provocation.’
Rare antigovernment protests have broken out in several Egyptian cities, with demonstrators calling for President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to step down.
Iran will hit back against any aggressor and seek to destroy it, the elite Revolutionary Guard warned Saturday.
The Pentagon is set to present a wide range of military options to President Donald Trump as he considers how to respond to an attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil industry that many in the administration have blamed on Iran.
The Saudi defense ministry presented evidence Wednesday that Iran was behind an attack over the weekend on its largest oil facility, though it said a launch point had not yet been determined.
The United States wants to build a coalition of European and Arab partners to deter Iran after an attack on Saudi Arabia that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described on Wednesday as ‘an act of war’ against the world’s top oil exporter.
Saudi Arabia has put on a display of drone and missile fragments that it said showed a weekend attack targeting the kingdom’s crucial oil industry was ‘unquestionably sponsored by Iran.’
Saudi King Salman said Tuesday his country is capable of defending itself against the ‘cowardly attacks’ that knocked out half of its oil production but called on the international community to “clearly confront” the perpetrators.
US officials revealed evidence Sunday that an attack Saturday on a Saudi oil field and refinery did not come from Yemen as originally supposed.
U.S. President Donald Trump has said that it is increasingly ‘looking like’ Iran was behind an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities over the weekend, but said it was still too early to be sure.
Iran has seized a boat suspected of being used to smuggle fuel and arrested its 11 crew members near a vital oil shipping lane, state television reported on Monday.
Negotiations between Cairo and Addis Ababa over a Nile dam being built by Ethiopia have stalled, Egypt said on Monday.
President Trump on Sunday suggested U.S. investigators had ‘reason to believe’ they knew who launched crippling attacks against a key Saudi oil facility, and vowed that America was ‘locked and loaded depending on verification.’