Kuwait best get with the US program – or be prepared to face Trump’s wrath The New York Post has published a report by Jonathan Schanzer* & Varsha Koduvayur* about the relation between Kuwait and [ More … ]
Kuwait’s al-Sabah prevented a formal split in the GCC Council during a visit to Saudi Arabia last week, sources revealed to The New Arab. Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Jaber al-Sabah reportedly stopped the official division [ More … ]
A Kuwaiti official attending an international conference in Russia was widely praised on Wednesday after criticising Israel and kicking out its representative from the hall. Israeli delegates at a conference in Russia’s St Petersburg were [ More … ]
On Wednesday, Kuwait’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah and Acting Minister of Information, Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, delivered a letter to Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, [ More … ]
Two US envoys have arrived in the Gulf to begin a five-day tour aimed at ending the now two-month long Saudi-led Qatar blockade. Two US envoys have arrived in Kuwait at the start of a [ More … ]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will begin his two-day tour to the Gulf on Sunday as part of his efforts to resolve the ongoing diplomatic crisis in the region, according to the presidential press office. [ More … ]
Kuwait has expelled Iranian diplomats and closed military, culture and trade missions on its soil following the conviction of ‘terror cell’ allegedly linked to Tehran. Kuwait ordered the expulsion of around 15 Iranian diplomats on [ More … ]
Boris Johnson arrived in Kuwait on Saturday, to meet representatives from Gulf nations involved in the ongoing Qatar blockade, after visiting Saudi Arabia a day earlier. British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson landed in Kuwait on [ More … ]
BY: HILAL KAPLAN* Every crisis and intervention instigated by the U.S.-Israel partnership in our region has been conducted through a chain of lies and manipulation As the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War was about [ More … ]
A Kuwaiti news agency has reported details of Qatar’s response to the demands made by the “embargo countries”. The details were handed to the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, by Foreign Minister [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia and its anti-Qatar allies have said they received the response to their demands from Qatar ahead of a meeting in Egypt on Wednesday. Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies said early Wednesday they [ More … ]
Eid al-Fitr is a religious holiday celebrated by Muslims around the world that marks the end of Ramadan, Islamic holy month of fasting. Muslims across the Middle East celebrated the first day of the Eid [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia and allies boycotting Qatar have issued a list of demands that includes shutting down the Doha-based al Jazeera channel and cutting diplomatic ties to Iran. Kuwait has given Qatar a list of demands [ More … ]
Iraqi Prime Minister, Haidar Al-Abadi, said on Saturday that his planned visit to Kuwait aims at boosting relations between the two countries. Speaking at a press conference, Al-Abadi stressed that his country’s relations with the [ More … ]
Kuwait’s highest court on Sunday overturned the death sentence imposed by a lower tribunal against a man convicted of belonging to a group Kuwait said was trying to destabilise the Gulf Arab state on behalf [ More … ]
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