Kuwait

A 14-year-old Kuwaiti tennis player has withdrawn from an international tennis tournament held in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to avoid playing against an Israeli opponent. Muhammad Al-Awadi refused...

Lebanon must not be a platform for hostile acts or words, Kuwait's foreign minister said on Sunday while visiting Beirut, an indirect call for curbs on the Iran-backed group...

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said yesterday that there is no "power vacuum" Middle East and is no need of a "foreign patriarch." Wang made the comments following a...

A fire broke out in Kuwait's largest petroleum refinery on Friday, killing at least two people and injuring several others, Anadolu News Agency reports. In a statement, the Kuwait...

Residents living 7km from the massive dump site have complained about large fires releasing noxious black smoke

Kuwait has renewed the detention of 8 individuals suspected of financing the Iran-backed Lebanese group, Hezbollah, as the dispute between Gulf states and the group continues to grow. In...

A common trope over the past decade has been the notion that Lebanon has been "held hostage" by the Hezbollah movement and its chief backer, Iran. This is based...

The video shows the Kuwaiti lady, who owns the lion, carrying the cub down the street as it wriggles free. It can be heard growling.

The Kuwaiti embassy in the United Kingdom has encouraged its citizens to leave the country due to a "significant and unprecedented" increase in Omicron cases there, Kuwait's state news...

The new Kuwaiti government, led by Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah, took the constitutional oath on Wednesday before the country's Crown Prince, Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Anadolu...

A Kuwaiti criminal court yesterday sentenced six judges to five and 15 years in prison for "bribery, forgery and money laundering." Local media quotes sources as saying that the...

Four asylum seekers who crossed the English Channel to the UK in small boats have managed to have their conviction for immigration offences revoked, with the UK's Court of...

Authorities in the Gulf state say Baghdad sent $44 million to the UN completing the $629 million outstanding compensation fee. Kuwait expects to receive the payment in 2022

Kuwait's Ministry of Interior has expelled two Egyptians after interrogating them in the case known as "Hezbollah financing", Al-Rai newspaper reports. According to the paper, the deportation of the Egyptians was...

Lebanon's Parliament Speaker, Nabih Berri, said, Wednesday, his country is under siege, amid a diplomatic crisis with Gulf countries Anadolu News Agency reports. Speaking during a meeting with the...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman arrived in Doha yesterday for the first time since Riyadh and several Arab allies imposed an embargo on Qatar in mid-2017. The de-facto ruler,...

Kuwait yesterday received two Eurofighter Typhoon jets from Italy, KUNA reported. The aircraft were handed over in a ceremony at Caselle Air Base in Turin, Italy, in the presence of Kuwaiti...

Kuwait has issued a decree banning the entry of commercial vessels carrying goods to and from Israel from its territorial waters. The Minister of Public Works and Minister of...

Imprisoned asylum seekers who were spotted steering dinghies during crossings over the English Channel are appealing to have their convictions overturned, as the British government continues to label them...

The biggest task facing Kuwait's octogenarian crown prince after unexpectedly stepping in for the emir this month will be to tackle the perennial political feuding which has long blocked...

Kuwait has launched an investigation into the theft of a US army watchtower, Al Rai newspaper reported. According to the report, the culprits took advantage of the fact there were no...

Kuwait yesterday asked some 100 expatriates, mostly Lebanese citizens, to leave the country with their families as soon as their residency permits expire, Al-Qabas newspaper reported. The paper said the State...

Kuwait's Ambassador to the UN, Mansour Al-Otaibi, has affirmed that the Arab League has called for permanent Arab representation at the Security Council. Otaibi made the announcement during his...

Kuwait today stopped all requests for charities wishing to make money transfers to Lebanon due to the country's "political and financial instability", Al-Jarida newspaper reported today. According to the...

Kuwait's Crown Prince has been asked to carry out some of Emir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah's constitutional duties on a temporary basis, state news agency, KUNA. said on Monday,...

Kuwait's emir issued two decrees on Saturday granting pardons and reduced sentences to 35 dissidents, meeting a key demand of opposition lawmakers locked in a months-long standoff with the...

The Kuwaiti government has suspended all visas for Lebanese nationals until further notice, local newspaper Al-Qabas said today, as part of the ongoing dispute between the Gulf and Beirut....

The "Gulf Shooting 2021" drill kicked off on Sunday in Kuwait, with the participation of the Royal Saudi Land Forces, the Kuwaiti Land Force, and US Army's Spartan Force,...

If accepted by the ruling Emir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Sabah the move could help end an ongoing standoff between the government and opposition lawmakers which has hindered legislative work and fiscal reform for months

Germany, on Friday, voiced concerned about the ongoing tensions between Lebanon and several Gulf states over critical remarks by a Lebanese minister regarding the Saudi military campaign in Yemen....

Kuwait has nominated its former governor to the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Haitham Al-Ghais, to lead the oil producer group after Mohammad Barkindo's term as secretary...

Lebanese Minister of Information, George Kordahi, will resign if the Gulf countries provide guarantees that this will change their position towards Lebanon, Anadolu news agency reported. The agency quoted sources close...