Kuwait ruler Sheikh Sabah, a key U.S. ally and veteran diplomat in the fractious Middle East, has died
Kuwait’s ruler Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, a veteran diplomat who positioned the small Arab Gulf state as a regional peacemaker and forged a U.S. alliance that deepened after the country was invaded by Iraq in 1990, has died. He was 91 years old.
Sheikh Sabah, who suffered a debilitating stroke in 2019, had traveled to the U.S. for medical care following complications fromHe is expected to be succeeded by his half-brother Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, who is 83 and also in poor health. Sheikh Nawaf isn’t expected to make dramatic changes to Kuwaiti policies, but the battle to succeed him as crown prince could prove divisive and drawn out.
As foreign minister for four decades and then ruler since 2006, Sheikh Sabah is the figure most associated with modern Kuwait, which gained independence from Britain in 1961. He helped rebuild relations with neighbors after Saddam Hussein’s invasion sent the Kuwaiti royal family into flight, before the U.S. rallied the international community to oust the Iraqis.
The American military stayed on, placing Kuwait squarely under its security umbrella and using bases there as launching pads for the U.S.-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and later for airstrikes against Islamic State militants. Most recently, additional U.S. soldiers deployed there following the strike that killed Iranian commander Qassim Soleimani in January.
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