UK to send Rapid Sentry air defense system to Kuwait, PM’s office says

LONDON: Britain is deploying its Rapid Sentry air defense system to Kuwait to help protect British and Kuwaiti interests in the Gulf, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office said on Friday, after an ‌overnight Iranian drone ‌attack on a ​Kuwaiti ‌oil ⁠facility. Starmer ​discussed the ⁠deployment in a call with Kuwait’s Crown Prince Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah on Friday morning, a Downing Street spokesperson said. “The Prime Minister began by condemning the reckless overnight drone attack ⁠on a Kuwaiti oil ‌refinery,” the spokesperson ‌said.

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