GCC agrees to establish advanced military command headquarters in Kuwait
The Gulf Cooperation Council has agreed to establish an advanced headquarters for its Unified Military Command in Kuwait, in a move aimed at strengthening regional defence coordination. The announcement followed the bloc's 23rd Joint Defence Council meeting on Tuesday, attended by defence ministers from all six member states. The decision also includes allocating appropriate military forces to the new headquarters.The GCC said the forward headquarters would be positioned closer to potential threats, although details of its exact location, troop numbers and assigned capabilities have not yet been disclosed. The Unified Military Command was created in 2013 to coordinate joint operations... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 10 Nov 2026 12:59 LONDON
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Trump says Israel and Gulf allies should repay US war costs after Iran conflict
United States President Donald Trump has said Washington will seek compensation from countries he says it protected during the war on Iran. In comments aired in an interview with CBS News correspondent Ross Douthat, Trump said those countries would pay back "any and all costs" the United States incurred in the conflict. He said the US would get "all that money back" and added that the countries involved would do so "100 percent".Trump explicitly named Israel for the first time in this context, saying it would not exist without US military intervention. He also repeated earlier remarks that Gulf states... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 10 Nov 2026 12:31 LONDON
Trump says Iran war is effectively over as Qatar-mediated talks continue
Trump said on Monday that the war with Iran is now "effectively over" militarily, while again leaving open the possibility of renewed US strikes if needed. Speaking at the White House, he said there was "positive momentum" toward ending the conflict and that the United States was keeping the current status quo. He also said further strikes were "quite unlikely," but repeated that Washington was "locked and loaded" if circumstances changed.The president met Qatar Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani at the White House, in what he described as an "excellent conversation." Trump later said on Truth Social... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 10 Nov 2026 10:29 LONDON
Trump says Iran nuclear weapon is non-negotiable, U.S. is 'locked and loaded' if the situation changes
President Donald Trump made multiple posts on Truth Social in the last hour: - "I had an excellent conversation with Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, the Prime Minister of Qatar, wherein much was discussed with respect to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Most importantly, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, and others, would prefer the status quo, in other words, a continuation of the Greatest Naval Blockade in History, and the new Operation Iron Gate, Therefore, Land and Sea. All have agreed that Iran cannot have a Nuclear Weapon, That is non-negotiable! Should there be any change... [Continue Reading]
Breaking-360LiveNews | 09 Nov 2026 21:30 LONDON
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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
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
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