US slashes troops, missile batteries from Middle East
By DW
22 June 2021 |
10:21 am
The Biden administration is to move Patriot anti-missile batteries from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait and Jordan. The Pentagon refused to say where the technology is being relocated.
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