Trump to send US troops to Saudi Arabia following attacks on oil facilities

Donald Trump is dispatching additional forces to Saudi Arabia following the attack on oil facilities that the US has blamed on Iran.

A week after Saudi oil facilities at Khurai and Abqaiq were attacked and damaged, an operation Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed responsibility for and which temporarily halved the kingdom’s oil production, the Pentagon announced it was be deploying a “moderate” number of troops primarily “defensive in nature”.

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