Kuwait says it is intercepting missile and drone attack from Iran as Gulf retaliation widens
Kuwait said its air defences were intercepting a missile and drone attack from Iran, as the confrontation between Tehran and Washington widened across the Gulf. The army said it was engaging what it described as hostile projectiles, while Iranian state television said the strikes were aimed at US bases in Kuwait. The attack came amid a broader Iranian response to fresh US bombardment of sites in Iran.According to the supporting material, the latest round of fighting began after Washington struck Iranian targets on Sunday, saying it was trying to stop Iran from placing sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz.... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 03 Sep 2026 06:59 LONDON
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Trump threatens more strikes as death toll in Iran rises to 18
The United States and Iran have exchanged their biggest barrage since July, with US strikes hitting cities and coastal areas in southern Iran near the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian officials said the attacks killed at least 18 people and wounded 108, including civilians at a wedding party in Kuhestak in Sirik county. The latest exchange has intensified fears of a wider regional confrontation centred on the narrow waterway and nearby US military sites.US President Donald Trump said Washington could strike Iran "anytime we want" and said the United States was prepared to carry out another attack. He told reporters at... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 03 Sep 2026 03:29 LONDON
Iran and US trade threats amid fresh claims over wedding strike
Iran and the United States traded threats on Wednesday after what the supplied material describes as some of the heaviest military exchanges in weeks. Tehran accused Washington of striking a wedding party and called the attack a war crime, while President Donald Trump said US forces had carried out a very heavy attack and were prepared to strike again. The row adds a new civilian-casualty allegation to an already widening confrontation between the two countries.According to the supporting rows, Iran's security chief, Mohsen Rezaei, warned that Washington would face a new strategy in war, diplomacy and against the economic blockade.... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 03 Sep 2026 02:29 LONDON
Iran and US trade strikes across the Middle East as Kheibar Shekan missile enters conflict
Iran's Kheibar Shekan missile has become a central part of the latest exchange of strikes between Iran and the United States across the Middle East. The medium-range ballistic missile, developed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, is being used in attacks on US military targets and infrastructure this week, according to the supplied material. The escalation follows a renewed phase of fighting after about a month of relative lull.The immediate trigger described in the rows was a US strike on rocket launchers on Iran's Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday. Iran then struck back at US military... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 02 Sep 2026 15:00 LONDON
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Iran's supreme leader urges Muslim unity against the United States and Israel
Iran's supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has called on Muslim nations to unite against the United States and Israel in a message released on Sunday, as the war in the Middle East reached its six-month mark. He also urged Iranians to close ranks internally and avoid actions that could weaken social cohesion. The statement places Iran's top authority at the centre of a renewed political message aimed both at the region and at the domestic audience.According to the message, Khamenei told regional leaders to recognise what he described as their real enemy, understand its plan and confront it. He identified the... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 30 Aug 2026 11:30 LONDON
Pakistan and Kuwait sign new defence protocol in Rawalpindi
Pakistan and Kuwait have signed a new defence protocol in Rawalpindi, expanding military cooperation between the two countries. The agreement, called the Protocol Agreement-2026, was signed on Thursday by Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif and his Kuwaiti counterpart, Sheikh Abdullah Ali Abdullah Al-Sabah. Pakistan's Ministry of Defence said the deal significantly strengthens a cooperation framework that has been in place since 2023.Under the protocol, Pakistan's armed forces will help train Kuwait's military, support defence capacity building and assist with border management. The ministry said the arrangement builds on an underlying agreement signed in June 2023, which Kuwait formally ratified only... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 28 Aug 2026 13:03 LONDON
Fear the Shia, Arm the Sunnis: The Uncomfortable Numbers Behind America’s War Narrative
“When fear is managed carefully enough, a nation can be taught to look away from the blood on the floor and stare instead at the shadow on the wall.” A friend of mine, whose name I will not reveal because he asked me not to, sat across from me over dinner and placed a question on the table that would not leave me alone. He was born into a Muslim Shia background, and for the angle of this article, that detail matters, not because I wish to reduce a man to a sect, but because sect has become one of... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews-Opinion | 23 May 2026 08:00 LONDON
The Great Uncoupling: Abu Dhabi’s Sovereign Gambit
The UAE’s decision to cut ties with OPEC is far more than a mere adjustment of energy policy, for it functions as a political telegram written in barrels and sent directly to the heart of the global order. For nearly six decades, Abu Dhabi operated within the rigid architecture of producer discipline, where it accepted the rituals of quotas, the formality of communiqués, and the heavy burden of collective restraint. It played the long game of oil diplomacy with a patient hand, balancing its own massive national ambitions against the gravity of cartel discipline and the delicate logic of Gulf... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews-Opinion | 30 Apr 2026 09:50 LONDON
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The Mirage of the Umbrella: The Shifting Sands of the U.S.-Israel-GCC Alliance
As I sat in a recent debate at the historic Carlton Club in London, listening to Faisal Abbas, the Editor-in-Chief of Arab News, I felt a tangible shift in the room, not because a new fact had been revealed, but because an old illusion had finally lost its last breath. The old-world order has not merely changed, it has evaporated, leaving the Gulf to realize it is no longer watching a distant fire from the safety of marble towers and air-conditioned ministries, but is instead standing directly inside the smoke. The GCC today is caught in a lethal crossfire between... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews-Opinion | 29 Apr 2026 21:40 LONDON
The Proving Ground, When “Decent” Reporting Meets High-Tech Warfare
For two decades I have watched wars unfold not only on battlefields, but on screens. Today’s incident over Kuwait, involving the downing of a U.S. F-15 Strike Eagle, is not just another headline in the Iran conflict. It may be a signal that something larger is unfolding behind the noise. Iranian state outlets rapidly circulated imagery of an ejected pilot. Washington responded cautiously. But beneath the spectacle lies a deeper question, whose technology was truly being tested? The Gulf as a live-fire laboratory For years, China has refined export-ready variants of its air defense systems, particularly the HQ-9 family and... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews-Opinion | 02 Mar 2026 09:36 LONDON
