The first round of what US President Donald Trump called “the most biting sanctions ever imposed” against Tehran went into effect on August 7. “Anyone doing business with Iran...

The shift in oil market power away from OPEC towards a bilateral relationship between Saudi Arabia and Russia is the culmination of structural changes in oil production over the...

Kuwait has become one of the first country in the Middle East to give full political rights to women. Gulf news agencies reported that the oil rich state has...

The Egyptian government said Egyptian universities have not issued forged certificates to individuals working in Kuwait, Anadolu Agency reported. Last July, the Kuwaiti Ministry of Higher Education announced that...

Kuwait-based Agility has announced that one of its subsidiaries has won a contract with the US Defence Logistics Agency to provide fuel storage services on the island of Guam...

The Palestinian Housing Council and the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) earlier this week signed a $5 million deal in support of residential projects in occupied Jerusalem, Felesteen.ps reported. The...

Kuwait has donated 17 mobile electric generators with a total capacity of 30,000 kilowatts to Iraq, the Undersecretary of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Electricity and Water, Mohammed Bushehri, said...

The Kuwaiti Ministry of Education and Higher Education announced last week that it had uncovered 400 forged university degrees, mostly in the field of law, local media reported. Sources...

China has not presented itself as a competitor or a substitute for any other major country. It has, instead, put forward a distinct economic and developmental strategic vision, the...

Kuwait has officially denied renting its islands to China to carry out economic projects, stressing it “will never do this,” Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported on Sunday. Deputy Kuwaiti Foreign...

Kuwait’s highest court on Sunday sentenced two lawmakers with three years and a half in prison over the 2011 storming of parliament. The Court of Cassation also slapped five...

France’s sales to the Middle East have doubled since 2017, a government report revealed. The government’s annual report on arms sales, due to be published on Wednesday revealed that...

The White House can drive Iran’s oil exports to zero, or it can have moderate US gasoline prices, but it probably cannot have both. The awkward tension between the...

A senior official in the Iranian army announced that a US ship carrying chemical material has recently anchored in the territorial waters of “a Gulf state”. A spokesman for...

The Interior Ministry of Kuwait has announced that it will arrest and deport all refugees and immigrants who have violated the country’s residency laws, Syrians and Yemenis in particular,...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) began, Wednesday, looking into the conflict between Qatar and its neighbouring Gulf States after receiving a complaint from Qatar. Meanwhile, the Gulf States...

At least 15 soldiers were killed Wednesday in Yemen’s Al-Hudaydah and Al-Bayda provinces. According to an army-linked website, seven soldiers were killed when their vehicle struck a landmine in...

The European Union (EU) supports efforts being made by Kuwait to mediate a solution to the current Gulf crisis, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Frederica...

UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths left Sanaa on Tuesday, wrapping up a four-day visit during which he spoke with leaders of the Shia Houthi rebel group. Griffiths...

King Abdullah of Jordan met with the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia yesterday to discuss the ongoing protests in his country. Jordan...

The White House has denied that President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner had a “stormy and abrupt meeting” with Kuwait Ambassador to Washington, Salem Abdullah Al Jaber...

Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates pledged $2.5 billion of aid to Jordan today, a joint statement from the Gulf states said, following austerity measures that have...

Jordan is pinning hopes on oil-rich Gulf states led by Saudi Arabia committing to a multi-billion dollar aid package to help it weather an economic crisis that sparked rare...

US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and advisor Jared Kushner has had “a very brief and stormy meeting” with Kuwait Ambassador to America, Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al Sabah, during which...

The “Miles of Smiles 34” aid convoy arrived in the blockaded Gaza Strip on Tuesday via Egypt’s Rafah border crossing. Teeming with medical and humanitarian aid, the convoy traversed...

Last Friday, 1 June, a Palestinian volunteer medic, Razan Al Najar, was fasting and tending to the wounded at Gaza’s artificial fence with Israel. Thousands of miles away, the...

Belgian ministers on Saturday expressed their “grave concern” over rising tensions with Israel and Palestine following the US veto of a UN Security Council resolution calling for the protection...

Hamas yesterday praised the role Kuwait played in blocking a UN draft statement which calls on resistance movements in the Gaza Strip to stop what it called “violent activities...

Kuwait yesterday blocked a US-drafted UN Security Council statement that strongly condemned Palestinian resistance forces in the Gaza Strip. On Tuesday, America had called for an emergency UNSC meeting...

The United Nations has requested information from Riyadh about the fate of Saudi Prince Nawaf Talal Al-Rasheed who disappeared after being deported from Kuwait at the request of Saudi...

The convoy of “Miles of Smiles” is getting ready to visit Gaza Strip next week, after securing dates of entry through the Rafah crossing, under the agreement of the...

The Emir of the State of Kuwait, Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, has that his country will support the Palestinian Marches of Return “till the end.” The statement came during...