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Patriot missile sales to Netherlands cleared by US State Department
The State Department cleared a possible foreign military sale of 96 Raytheon-made Patriot surface-to-air missiles to the Netherlands in a deal estimated to be worth $1.2 billion.
By Joe Gould
1991 Gulf War looms large over Bush’s Mideast legacy
With Bush's death, his legacy across the Middle East takes root in that 100-hour ground war that routed Iraqi forces.
By Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press
Former President George H.W. Bush dies at age 94
George H.W. Bush, a patrician New Englander whose presidency soared with the coalition victory over Iraq in Kuwait, but then plummeted in the throes of a weak economy that led voters to turn him out of office after a single term, has died. He was 94.
Bahrain, home to the 5th Fleet, gets $10 billion Arab bailout
Bahrain, though the first Arab nation in the Persian Gulf to strike oil, had faced the specter of defaulting on a $750 million Islamic bond repayment due on Nov. 22.
By Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press
Soldiers pulled off home-bound flights after norovirus outbreak hits US bases in Kuwait
U.S. Army Central is currently dealing with an outbreak of norovirus at two of the largest U.S. installations in Kuwait.
By Kyle Rempfer
$88.2B price tag for rebuilding Iraq after Islamic State war
Kuwait on Monday opened a week of conferences seeking aid for rebuilding Iraq after the onslaught of the Islamic State group, seeking tens of billions of dollars for a nation only a generation ago that invaded it.
By Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press
Logisticians need to get deceptive, supplies must be distributed
Conventional forces will need to think and act like special operations forces when it comes to supplying troops.
By Todd South