US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson played down prospects of a breakthrough in the crisis between US allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar Thursday as he prepared to travel to the Gulf over the weekend.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will start a foreign tour today to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other countries. The US State Department said in a statement that Tillerson will begin his tour which ends on October 27 by visiting Saudi Arabia.

Bahrain announced on Tuesday (October 17, 2017) it had signed a $3.8 billion deal with Lockheed Martin for 16 upgraded F-16 fighter jets, after US President Donald Trump’s administration resumed arms sales to Bahrain.

After years of focusing divided Iraq on a shared fight against the Islamic State group, the United States is now straining to leverage its limited influence to avoid a full-blown conflict between the Iraqi and Kurdish forces it has armed and trained.

Israel and Saudi Arabia showed their support to US President Donald Trump on Friday after he refused to certify the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal signed P5+1 in 2015.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced that it strongly supports US President Donald Trump's new strategy to address the full range of Iran's destructive actions.

The Kingdom of Bahrain followed Saudi Arabia and Israel’s footsteps, declaring its support for United States President Donald Trump’s new strategy against Iran.

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said Iran was not surprised that supporters of the United States President Donald Trump’s “inane speech” on Iran and the nuclear deal are Persian Gulf states, such as Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani denounced on Friday (October 13, 2017) what he described as “baseless accusations” in response to his US counterpart Donald Trump’s speech and the United States’ aggressive new strategy towards Iran.

US President Donald Trump refused on Friday (October 13, 2017) to certify the nuclear agreement with Iran.

Iran said Tuesday that the United States would be siding with the Islamic State group if it designated the Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organisation.

Bahrain embassy in the USA extended condolences to the family of Mahmoud Cherif Bassiouni, the Chairman of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI), who died at the age of 79, after struggle with illness in Chicago.

The United States will soon decide whether to keep open a Taliban office in Qatar as America steps up its Afghan war effort, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Tuesday, adding he was looking at who represents the increasingly fractious insurgency.

U.S. Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said on Tuesday Iran was fundamentally in compliance with its nuclear deal, as President Donald Trump's administration weighs whether the 2015 deal serves U.S. security interests.

The United Nations has offered to help "solve the problem" between the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) over a Kurdish independence referendum held on Monday, the Iraqi foreign ministry said on Thursday.

Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States, speaking to reporters on Tuesday after the kingdom announced it would permit women to drive, said the decision was not just a major social change but part of the country’s economic reforms.

Investcorp announced yesterday that its U.S.-based real estate arm has invested in six multifamily properties in Florida and Arizona, for a total purchase price of approximately $350 million. The properties are located in key growth markets with strong fundamentals in the multifamily space.

US presidential envoy to the coalition fighting insurgent group Islamic State said on Friday (September 23, 2017) that Kuwait would hold a conference on reconstruction in Iraq early next year.

The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday that the United States should experience “painful responses” following President Donald Trump’s harsh criticism of Tehran at the United Nations.

United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is expected to hold a firstmeeting on the Iran nuclear deal with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and other parties to the agreement next week at the United Nations, diplomats said on Thursday.