UAE condemns drone attack on its consulate in Iraq's Erbil

Saudi Arabia expects imminent coordinated attacks from Iraqi militias north of the Gulf state and from Yemen's Houthis from the south under the supervision of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a senior Saudi official said.

There is a specific brand of exhaustion that settles into the bones during a Gulf summer—a heavy, adhesive fatigue born from the endless negotiation between punishing outdoor heat and aggressively refrigerated interiors. It is an urban siege. 

Kuwaiti authorities have ordered the closure of an Iranian school, a source at the Ministry of Education told AFP Thursday, as the country has repeatedly come under Iranian attack during the war in the Middle East.