US-Iran ceasefire: EU urges reopening of Strait of Hormuz and end to war through diplomacy

Day 55: Trump: US could make a deal with Iran 'right now'

Day 54: Trump extends US-Iran ceasefire

Day 53: Pakistan urges the US and Iran to extend their ceasefire

Day 52: Fighting to resume as ceasefire ends Wednesday: Trump

Day 51: Iran refuses new round of talks, say reports

Day 50: Indian ships reverse course in Strait of Hormuz

Day 49: Trump says Iran agrees to 'never' close Hormuz strait again

Day 48: Trump: Iran agreed to hand over its enriched uranium

Day 47: US optimistic about reaching peace deal with Iran

Day 46: 2 days to US-Iran talks in Pakistan? Trump thinks so

Day 45: US, Iran discuss 'another round' of direct talks

Day 44: US to begin 'blockade' of Iranian ports on Monday

Day 43: 3-way talks with the US and Iran begin in Pakistan

Day 42: Trump says Iran has 'no cards' as Vance heads for talks

Day 41: Kuwait condemns drone attacks, US warns vs Hormuz toll

Day 40: Trump agrees to suspend attack on Iran by two weeks

Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Thursday strongly dismissed claims of internal divisions within the country, responding to remarks attributed to US President Donald Trump.

In a post shared on X, Ghalibaf asserted that there is no divide between political factions in Iran, emphasising national unity and allegiance to the country's leadership.

"In Iran, there are no radicals or moderates; we are all 'Iranian' and 'revolutionary,'" he stated in a post on X, adding that the nation stands united in the face of external pressures.

He further underscored what he described as "iron unity" between the Iranian people and government, along with "complete obedience" to the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, Mojtaba Khamenei.

"With the iron unity of the nation and government, with complete obedience to the Supreme Leader of the Revolution," the post added.

Ghalibaf also issued a warning to adversaries, stating that Iran would make any "aggressor criminal regret his actions."

He concluded his statement with a message of national solidarity: "One God, one leader, one nation, and one path; that path being the path to victory for Iran, dearer than life."

US President Donald Trump will meet Israeli and Lebanese envoys when they hold a second round of peace talks Thursday, a US official said.

"The ambassador-level talks between Israel and Lebanon will now take place at the White House," the official said on customary condition of anonymity. "President Trump will greet both representatives upon their arrival."

The USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier has arrived in the Middle East, the US military said Thursday, bringing the number of the massive American warships operating in the region to three.

The Bush was sailing "in the Indian Ocean in the US Central Command area of responsibility, April 23," the military command responsible for the Middle East said in a post on X that included an image of the carrier with its deck packed with warplanes.

A second carrier - the USS Gerald R. Ford - was operating in the Red Sea on Thursday, while a third - the USS Abraham Lincoln - is also in the region, according to social media posts by CENTCOM.

The Pentagon said US forces boarded M/T Majestic X, a crude tanker suspected of carrying Iranian oil, while sailing in the Indian Ocean. The Trump administration warned that ships providing material support to Iran in international waters would be targeted as part of "global maritime enforcement".

President Donald Trump says a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon has been extended by three weeks after hosting a meeting of the two countries’ representatives at the White House.

Israel and Lebanon held ambassador-level talks and President Trump greeted both representatives upon their arrival at the White House.

Speaking alongside Trump in the Oval Office, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter said Israel and Lebanon “have never been next to each other more than today.”

Leiter thanked Trump and Vice President JD Vance for a day he said was decades in the making.

“We are going to keep going, working for peace. Let’s hope we will get it as soon as possible,” he said.

Lebanese Ambassador to the U.S. Nada Hamadeh Moawad thanked Trump for presiding over “this historic moment.” She added: “I think with your help, with your support, we can make Lebanon great again.”

US President Donald Trump said he could make a deal with Iran "right now," but he wants it to be "everlasting," not temporary.

"We have total control of the Strait... They would have opened it up three days ago. They came to us and they said, 'we will agree to open the Strait.'

"And all my people are happy. Everybody was happy — except me," he told Fox.

"I said...if we open the Strait, that means they're going to make $500 million a day. I don't want them to make $500 million a day until they settle this thing."

Trump insists Iran should not have a nuclear weapon and makes the handover of Iran's enriched uranium as a key precondition for a peace deal.

Iranian officials, including Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghei, have strongly stated that Iran will not transfer its enriched uranium to any foreign country, particularly the United States, calling such proposals a "non-starter". 

Israel's military said it struck a missile launcher in Lebanon that had fired into Israel on Thursday in an attack that Israeli air defenses intercepted. Hezbollah claimed the attack.

Israel's announcement of the strike came soon after Trump said the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire had been extended by three weeks.

Hezbollah said it had launched rockets toward Israel in retaliation for an Israeli strike on the Lebanese village of Yater. Two people, including a child, were wounded by Israeli artillery shelling there, said Lebanon's public health ministry.

The ministry also said that an Israeli airstrike killed three people farther north, in the area of Nabatieh. The Israeli military said it had killed three militants who had launched a missile toward an Israeli warplane.

The United States has placed a $10 million bounty on the leader of an Iranian-backed militia in Iraq.

The US State Department's Rewards for Justice program issued a notice it sought the leader of Kataib Sayyid Al Shuhada.

It said Hashim Finyan Rahim al-Saraji led the group, whose members "killed Iraqi civilians and attacked U.S. diplomatic facilities in Iraq."

It also said Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada attacked US military bases and personnel in Iraq and Syria.

Iraq has several militias backed by Iran that are part of the country's Popular Mobilization Forces, which was created after the fall of Mosul in 2014 to formalize volunteer units that defeated the Islamic State group.

A medical aid convoy left Turkey headed for Iran, an official told Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency on Friday.

The six trucks departed Van in eastern Turkey to pass through the Gurbulak border crossing, Van Health Director Muhammed Tosun said.

“The materials include medicines and medical supplies,” Tosun said.

“We previously sent three trucks. With today’s trucks, a total of nine trucks of aid materials will have been delivered to our Iranian colleagues to serve their citizens,” he said.

French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday it was in "everyone's interest" for stability to return to the Middle East, as the spillover of the Iran war rattles the global economy.

"It is in everyone's interest for stability to return as soon as possible and for the world's economies to be reassured," Macron said as he arrived at an European Union summit in Nicosia, where talks with Middle East leaders are also scheduled.

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said peace negotiations between the United States and Iran are at risk of forging a “weaker” agreement than one struck a decade ago.

“If the talks are only about the nuclear (issue) and there are no nuclear experts around the table, then we will end up with an agreement that is weaker than the JCPoA was,” Kallas said Friday in Cyprus, referring to a 2015 deal struck during the Obama administration that Trump pulled the U.S. out of in 2018.

Kallas said if negotiators do not table Iran’s “missile programs, their support to proxies, and also hybrid and cyber activities in Europe” there is a possibility “we will end up with a more dangerous Iran.”

The market for liquefied natural gas (LNG), which has been strained by the war, will remain "tight" through 2026 and 2027", the International Energy Agency said.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held phone calls with Pakistan's powerful military chief Field Marshal Asim Munir and the country's top diplomat, Ishaq Dar, as uncertainty remained over the future of peace talks with the United States.

Araghchi also spoke to the president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, Nechirvan Barzani, the foreign minister's official Telegram channel posted.

Pakistan has emerged as the lead mediator in efforts to end the US-Israeli war with Iran, but following a marathon first session of talks on April 11 Tehran has so far declined to send a delegation to Islamabad for a second round.

International flights from Tehran's Imam Khomeini Airport will resume on Saturday, the ISNA news agency reported, days after Iran reopened its airspace.

The first flights to resume will be to Istanbul and Muscat, the announcement said. Iran's airspace was slammed shut by the US-Israeli war with Iran that began on February 28 and is only slowly being reopened during the ceasefire.

Officials announced last week that Mashhad airport, which serves the country's second city in the far northeast, would reopen on Monday. On Friday, tracking data showed at least two international flights departing the airport, to Turkey and Oman respectively.

The Kuwaiti military said on Friday that two drones coming from the direction of neighbouring Iraq struck border posts on its northern frontier with the country, causing damage but no casualties.

"This morning, two of Kuwait's northern land border posts were targeted in a criminal act of aggression involving two explosive-laden drones guided by fibre-optic cables, originating from the Republic of Iraq, resulting in material damage but... no human casualties," the military said in a statement on X.

Lebanese militant group Hezbollah reserves the right to respond to any Israeli "aggressions" during the ongoing truce in Lebanon, Ali Fayad, an MP for the party, said on Friday.

He said extending the ceasefire "makes no sense" in light of continued "hostile acts" by Israel, saying they gave "the resistance the right to respond at the appropriate time".

US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that the ceasefire in Lebanon, due to expire on Sunday, would be extended by three weeks.

Acute food insecurity and malnutrition remain at alarmingly high levels worldwide, with conflict and displacement pushing millions into extreme hunger, according to an international report released Friday.

UN Secretary‑General António Guterres said conflict remained the primary driver of food crises, calling hunger in war zones “entirely man‑made.”

The Global Report on Food Crises 2026, published by a global alliance including the United Nations and the EU, found that about 266 million people across 47 countries experienced high levels of “acute food insecurity” in 2025, nearly double the share recorded a decade earlier.

Ten countries accounted for roughly two‑thirds of those affected, including Afghanistan, Sudan, South Sudan, Yemen and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

For the first time in the report’s history, famine was confirmed in two separate contexts in the same year — in Gaza and parts of Sudan — marking what authors described as a sharp escalation in the most severe forms of hunger.

Iran's top diplomat is expected to travel to Pakistan by this weekend for talks, two Pakistani officials told The Associated Press on Friday.

The officials declined to provide any other details about Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi's visit, other than to say he would be accompanied by a small government delegation and could arrive as soon as Friday.

Pakistan has been trying to restart ceasefire talks between Iran and the United States.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

The White House said that Trump issued a 90-day extension to the Jones Act waiver, making it easier for non-American vessels to transport oil and natural gas in the wake of the Iran War.

Trump first announced a 60-day waiver in mid-March and the move has been seen as helping to stabilize energy prices and making it easier for more ships to travel to the US following the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

The post on social media by a White House press aide said: "New data compiled since the initial waiver was issued revealed that significantly more supply was able to reach US ports faster."

Rebuilding trust between Abu Dhabi and Tehran will take "ages and ages", UAE presidential advisor Anwar Gargash said Friday, after Iran targeted the UAE during the Middle East conflict.

"You can't be attacked with 2,800 missiles and drones and then talk to me about trust. That will take ages and ages," Gargash said at a World Policy Conference in the town of Chantilly near Paris, as peace talks hang in the balance to end the war sparked in late February by Israeli-US strikes on Iran.

European Union leaders have emphasised that freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz is "non-negotiable" during their second consecutive day of meetings in Cyprus.

Kaja Kallas, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, called on the sidelines of the meeting, which discussed the economic and security implications of developments in the Middle East, for strengthening the European military presence in the region to ensure the security of maritime passages.

She warned that holding talks focused solely on the nuclear file without the presence of nuclear experts at the negotiating table could result in a new nuclear agreement with Iran that may be weaker than the 2015 agreement concluded between Iran and the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, China, and Germany, in addition to the European Union, which stipulated restrictions on Iran's nuclear programme.

The group said the Hermes 450 drone was shot down with a surface-to-air missile Friday over the outskirts of southern port city of Tyre.

Hezbollah said it was in retaliation for Israeli violation of Lebanese air space.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.

The Israeli army’s statement Friday regarding the village of Deir Aames came hours after U.S. President Donald Trump said Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah by three weeks.

The military said the militant group Hezbollah is using Deir Aames to launch attacks against Israel.

The military said residents of the village should move 1,000 meters outside Deir Aames.

Oil prices fell on Friday after it appeared a second round of Middle East talks was back on, bolstering prospects for an end to a war that has crippled energy shipments from the Gulf.

Equities traded mixed, however, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite rising in New York thanks to a surge in stocks of chip manufacturing firms like Intel, which saw its shares rocket 25 percent higher after it smashed quarterly earnings expectations.

Oil prices had been climbing earlier as investors worried about a lack of progress in ending the Middle East crisis, with Tehran keeping the Strait of Hormuz closed and the US maintaining a blockade of Iranian ports.

But they dropped on reports Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was to arrive in Islamabad on Friday night.

Brent crude, the international benchmark contract, fell back below $100 a barrel.

Speaking to reporters Friday at the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth said the US blockade of Iranian shipping will continue “as long as it takes” to accomplish America’s “bold and dangerous” mission to end Iran’s threat to global security.

US officials say that so far the blockade has turned back 34 ships, but ship-tracking data shows Iran has still been to move some of its sanctioned oil.

Lloyd’s List Intelligence said “a steady flow of shadow fleet traffic” has passed in and out of the Arabian Gulf, including 11 tankers with Iranian cargo that have left the Gulf of Oman outside the strait since April 13.

The maritime intelligence firm Windward said this week that Iranian traffic continues to flow “via deception.”

Iranians are able to evade the blockade by faking tracking data and by traveling through Pakistani territorial waters.

Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency said Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi also would go to Oman and Russia.

The trip to Pakistan comes as officials there have been trying to get the United States and Iran to a second round of ceasefire negotiations.

The IRNA report said Araghchi’s trip, beginning Friday, is focused on “bilateral consultations and discussions on ongoing regional developments, as well as the latest situation surrounding the imposed war by the United States and Israel against Iran.”

The US Secretary of Defence suggested traditional US allies in Europe are “freeriding” and being disloyal by not using their own forces to open the Strait of Hormuz that’s been closed because of President Trump’s Iran war.

“We are not counting on Europe, but they need the Strait of Hormuz much more than we do,” Hegseth insisted. He mocked a recent European confab, saying US allies “might want to start doing less talking” instead of holding “a fancy conference” and “a silly conference.”

Iran’s maneuver to choke off the strait has disrupted global energy supplies — especially in Europe, where many leaders remain frustrated. French President Emmanuel Macron said at one point that the US can’t complain about a lack of support “in an operation they chose to undertake alone.”

Hegseth’s broadsides echo Trump’s swipes that other nations should “Go get your own oil!” and “start learning how to fight for yourself.”

The crews of all three merchant vessels seized by the US military over the past week are still in US custody, Gen. Dan Caine said at a briefing Friday.

“We will continue to conduct similar maritime interdiction actions and activities in the Pacific and Indian Oceans against Iranian ships and vessels of the Dark Fleet,” Caine said.

Caine also said the crew of the Tousca, the first merchant ship seized by US forces Sunday, “repeatedly ignored US warnings” over a six-hour period. Caine said this behaviour prompted the crew of the Navy destroyer following the ship to fire five warning shots.

Then, according to Caine, the destroyer disabled the ship’s engine by firing nine inert rounds from the destroyer’s 5-inch guns “precisely into the engine room and engine space on board the Tousca.”

“Not surprisingly, the vessel then reported issues with their engine, went dead in the water and began to comply with US directions,” Caine added.

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters at the Pentagon on Friday that the military is prepared to deal with any Iranian ships that “recklessly and irresponsibly” lay more mines.

But he said he wouldn’t speculate on reports that it will likely take six months to clear mines in the strait. The Associated Press reported that the Pentagon gave that timeline in a classified briefing to lawmakers this week.

Hegseth was responding to statements from President Trump who said Thursday that he has ordered the military to “shoot and kill” small Iranian boats deploying mines.

Hegseth said the US is confident it can clear any mines it identifies “and would encourage other countries to be a part of such an effort as well.”

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Friday that his government is in talks with Iran to allow two Malaysian-owned tankers carrying fuel supplies to pass through.

The vessels have exited the Strait of Hormuz but face severe restrictions despite earlier clearance given by the Iranian government, he was cited as saying by the national Bernama news agency. He didn’t provide further details.

One Malaysian vessel has earlier reached home and another is expected to enter Malaysian waters soon, he said. Another is stranded at port due to technical problems, he added.

India on Friday said that the situation in Iran remains serious and the Embassy in Tehran continues to assist Indian nationals still remaining in the country.

Addressing an inter-ministerial briefing on recent developments in West Asia on Friday, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson stated that more than 2,400 Indian nationals have been safely evacuated and brought home from Iran.

"In Iran and that region, the situation has remained serious. Although, there is a ceasefire for now. But, you know that what kind of difficult situation has prevailed in Iran and other countries from the beginning until now. Despite this, our Ambassador continues to work in the Embassy in Tehran. I would say that it is inspiring for all of us that our Ambassador there and our entire team are continuously working in the interest of the country. They are providing assistance to the people. Through their efforts, we have safely evacuated 2,400 Indian citizens from there and brought home. I would say that their commitment is commendable," said MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal.

In a statement in Islamabad, the foreign ministry said Lavrov appreciated Pakistan’s “constructive role” in facilitating dialogue between Iran and the United States.

Dar reaffirmed Islamabad’s commitment to supporting efforts that promote dialogue and diplomacy to resolve disputes, it said.

Both sides agreed to remain in contact, it added.

President Joseph Aoun’s comments Friday came during a visit to the Mediterranean island of Cyprus where he’s a guest at the European Union summit.

Aoun said in a speech that “Lebanon’s stability is part of the region’s stability.”

He added that Lebanon refuses to be a bargaining chip in regional conflicts. He was apparently referring to Iran, which has put a permanent ceasefire between Israel and the militant Hezbollah group on top of its list in talks with the US.

Aoun said Lebanon, like other countries in the region, “places great importance on de-escalation, stability, and peace.”

Aoun used World Bank figures, saying the Israel-Hezbollah war has caused damage worth $1.4 billion to Lebanon’s infrastructure and that 38,000 housing units were destroyed.

He said 150,000 people in Lebanon are without homes.

Ali Fayyadh said in comments Friday that the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah that was extended for three weeks the day before has no meaning as long as Israel continues its attacks, targeted killings and strikes on Lebanese villages.

Since the 10-day ceasefire went into effect last Friday it has been repeatedly violated by both sides.

Fayyadh said every Israeli attack against any Lebanese target, regardless of its nature, gives his group that right to respond appropriately.

He added that any ceasefire that doesn’t constitute a prelude to an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanese territory affirms the Lebanese people’s “inalienable and final right to resist” the occupation and expel it from our land in order to restore full Lebanese sovereignty.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in a social media post that the purpose of his upcoming tour to Islamabad, Pakistan; Muscat, Oman; and Moscow is to “closely coordinate with our partners on bilateral matters and consult on regional developments.”

Araghchi’s comments didn’t address any possible resumption of talks with the US, but Pakistani officials have been intensifying efforts in recent weeks to get the US and Iran to a second round of ceasefire negotiations.

The Israeli military said it hit sites from which rockets were launched toward the town of Shtula a day earlier.

The strikes targeted the town of Deir Aames, which is outside the border area in Lebanon that Israeli forces have declared a buffer zone and continued to occupy since a 10-day truce was implemented last week. Earlier Friday, the Israeli military issued a warning for residents of Deir Aames to leave.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Hezbollah on Friday of trying to "sabotage" Israel's efforts to reach a peace agreement with Lebanon.

"We have started a process to reach a historic peace between Israel and Lebanon, and it's clear to us that Hezbollah is trying to sabotage this," he said in his first remarks after a ceasefire with Lebanon was extended.

“The same is true in Lebanon: We have begun a process to achieve a historic peace between Israel and Lebanon, and it is clear to us that Hezbollah is trying to sabotage this,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday in a video statement released by his office. He was referring to direct negotiations underway between the two countries — which don’t have formal diplomatic relations — for the first time in decades.

The ministry included figures released Friday that 7,719 people were wounded in the latest Israel-Hezbollah war that broke out March 2.

It was the first time the ministry has released new figures since April 17, when a ceasefire went into effect.

Despite the ceasefire, the death toll rose by 197 in one week because bodies were apparently recovered from areas that previously had been out of reach.

EU leaders vowed to boost security and economic ties with Middle East partners and push for a diplomatic end to the Iran war, after talks in Cyprus focusing on the fallout from the conflict.

Leaders from Lebanon, Egypt, Syria and Jordan as well as the secretary general of the Gulf Cooperation Council, were in Nicosia to meet their European Union counterparts on the sidelines of an EU summit.

"The current situation clearly underscores how closely Europe's security is linked with that of the Middle East, and how vital our cooperation on security and defence has become," European Council president Antonio Costa told a press conference after the talks.

"The Strait of Hormuz must immediately reopen without restrictions and without tolling, in full respect of international law and the principle of freedom of navigation. This is vital for the entire world," Costa said.

US President Donald Trump is sending his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Pakistan on Saturday to continue talks with Iran, the White House said Friday.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in an interview on Fox News Channel that the two will have talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

"We're hopeful that it will be a productive conversation and hopefully move the ball forward to a deal," Leavitt said.

She said that Vice President JD Vance would not be traveling but that he remains "deeply involved." She said he will be in the US, along with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the president's national security team, on "standby" to fly to Pakistan "if necessary."

The Trump administration is placing economic sanctions on a major China-based oil refinery and roughly 40 shipping companies and tankers involved in transporting Iranian oil.

The move, announced Friday and first reported by The Associated Press, makes good on the Trump administration’s threat to impose secondary sanctions on companies and countries that do business with Iran. It’s also part of the Republican administration’s overall ramped-up campaign to cut off Iran’s key source of revenue — its oil exports.

Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said an Iranian delegation led by Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in Islamabad on Friday.

Araghchi was received by Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir and other senior officials upon arrival.

In a statement, it said during the visit Araghchi is expected to meet Pakistan’s senior leadership to discuss the latest regional developments and ongoing efforts to promote regional peace and stability.

Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of the State of Qatar, received Friday a telephone call from US President Donald Trump, during which the two sides reviewed the latest regional developments, particularly the ceasefire agreement between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the international efforts aimed at consolidating it, Qatar News Agency reported.

They also discussed the repercussions of the situation on maritime security and global supply chains.

Sheikh Tamim stressed the need to reduce tensions and support peaceful solutions, reiterating the State of Qatar's continued coordination with regional and international partners to support the mediation efforts undertaken by the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, in contribution to enhancing security and stability in the region.

The United States has frozen $344 million in cryptocurrency assets over ties to Iran, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday, as Washington seeks to raise pressure on Tehran amid energy supply disruptions due to war in the Middle East.

The Treasury Department "will continue to systematically degrade Tehran's ability to generate, move, and repatriate funds," Bessent vowed in a statement on X.

He added that his agency was imposing sanctions on "multiple wallets tied to Iran," resulting in the freeze of funds.

A US official said on condition of anonymity that Washington is targeting both typical sanctions evasion means like front companies, alongside newer technologies like digital assets.

The official added that Treasury is in active dialogue with financial institutions including digital assets exchanges.

The UAE condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack that targeted two northern border posts in the State of Kuwait using two explosive-laden drones launched from the Republic of Iraq.

In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) affirmed that this terrorist attack constitutes a violation of the sovereignty of Kuwait and a threat to its security and stability.

The UAE expressed its full solidarity with Kuwait and its support for all measures aimed at safeguarding its security and stability.

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