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UK to deploy Rapid Sentry air defense system to Kuwait after oil facility attack
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleBritain will deploy its Rapid Sentry air defense system to Kuwait to help protect British and Kuwaiti interests in the Gulf, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office says, 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 this morning, a Downing Street spokesperson says.
“The Prime Minister began by condemning the reckless overnight drone attack on a Kuwaiti oil refinery,” the spokesperson says. “He reiterated that the UK stands with Kuwait and all our allies in the Gulf.”
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