The UK is set to deploy extra troops to the Middle East in an effort to bolster defences for UK allies facing Iranian attacks from the skies.
On a trip to Gulf nations, defence secretary John Healey said additional air defence teams and systems have arrived in Bahrain and Kuwait, and outlined plans to deploy an air defence missile system in Saudi Arabia and extend UK Typhoon jets’ action in Qatar – despite the prime minister’s repeated insistence that the UK will not be dragged into the wider war.
