Bahrain has expressed its full support for the US strategy towards Iran, announced by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday, saying it reflects the determination to address the threat of Iranian policies that undermine security and stability in the region.

Bahrain’s ambassador to Washington Abdullah bin Rashid Al Khalifa (son of the Bahraini Minister of Foreign Affairs) defended, in a statement to an Israeli newspaper on Thursday (May 10, 2018), the Israeli strikes on Syria saying that “no country would tolerate aggression of any kind”.

U.S. President Donald Trump said that he will announce on Tuesday whether he will be pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal, which is earlier than the previous scheduled date of announcement on May 12.

Iran’s supreme leader on Monday hit out at the United States a day after new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Riyadh, accusing Washington of trying to stoke a “regional crisis” by provoking its ally Saudi Arabia to confront Tehran.

The U.S.-led coalition signaled on Monday the end of major combat operations against Islamic State in Iraq by announcing the “deactivation” of its land forces command headquarters.

US Department of Defense has approved possible sale of combat helicopters and aircraft missiles to Bahrain at an estimated cost of $911.4 million, a Pentagon agency said.

Iran warned the United States on Thursday of “unpleasant” consequences if Washington pulls out of a multinational nuclear deal, Iranian state TV reported.

The United States hopes to reach agreement with Britain, France and Germany to address President Donald Trump’s concerns about the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Washington’s disarmament ambassador said on Thursday.

The United States and its allies fired more than 100 missiles at Syria on Friday in a “one-time shot” the Pentagon said.

Bahraini aluminum companies have started paying the 10 percent US export tariff imposed by the US administration, officials said.

Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani will meet U.S. President Donald Trump on April 10 in Washington, the state news agency QNA reported on late Thursday.

Bahrain has hired a high-profile US law firm to help convince the Donald Trump administration to go easy on new tariffs imposed on solid and aluminum imports.

Amnesty International on Friday denounced Western arms sales to Saudi Arabia and its allies in a coalition battling the Houthis in Yemen, saying such traffic made a "mockery" of a global arms trade treaty.

There is an urgent need to find a political solution to Yemen’s war, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Thursday, as he voiced hope for a U.N. special envoy’s peace efforts and firmly backed Riyadh.

The U.S. State Department said on Thursday it had approved the possible sale to Saudi Arabia of TOW anti-tank missiles, part of a bigger $1 billion package that also includes helicopter maintenance and spare parts for military vehicles.

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince will rub shoulders in New York next week with top figures from Wall Street and Corporate America, part of a whistle-stop first visit to the United States since becoming King Salman’s heir apparent last year.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Saudi Arabia is a very wealthy nation, and they’re going to give the United States some of that wealth, hopefully.

Some of the dearest foreign “friends”of the current United States President Donald Trump are authoritarian brutes at home, violating human rights that most Americans claim to hold dear, stressed the American Conservative.

A US military helicopter crashed in western Iraq with seven people on board, U.S. officials said late on Thursday.

Akhbar Al-Khaleej daily said that Bahrain has called to exempt it from a US decision to impose new tariffs on the aluminum and steel industry. Last week US President Donald Trump announced a 25 per cent tariff on imported steel and 10pc on aluminum aimed at saving the US steel industry and cutting its deficit.