Kuwait

My travels led me to meet an Arab individual at one of the terminals in Jeddah airport. He was traveling to the United States and I was travelling to...

A sovereign Kuwaiti fund has joined a large international investment consortium in a bid to buy London's City Airport which is valued at £2 billion. Wren Infrastructure Management, a...

Some 28 per cent of the Arab youth are unemployed, the highest rate in the world, Alkhaleejonline.net said a new study revealed. According to the report issued by the...

The Kuwaiti Embassy in Cairo has called on Kuwaiti nationals, including students and tourists, to comply with the Egyptian government's regulations on foreign currency transactions. The embassy said in...

Palestinian Authority (PA), Fatah and PLO President Mahmoud Abbas has refused to hold a PLO leadership meeting anywhere but in Ramallah, informed political sources told Palestinian newspaper Al-Resalah yesterday....

The Ba'athist witch-hunt continues unabated in Iraqi politics. Whenever Iraqi politicians and their lackeys want to discredit someone, they brand them Ba'athists. Whenever the Iraqi government wants to bar...

Members of the Arab Peace Initiative are to meet in 5 August to discuss the escalation in violence and Israeli actions in occupied Jerusalem, the Anadolu Agency reported. Palestinian...

In Ramadan, politics in Morocco usually abate to devote more public focus on spiritual life. This year, successive incidents have kept the level of social debate high. In addition...

The member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have recorded the highest population growth in the world over the past decade, according to a report released on Sunday....

Kuwait's Interior Ministry has confirmed that the suicide bomber who carried out a Friday attack on a Shia mosque in central Kuwait City was a Saudi national, Kuwait's official...

Twenty-four people were killed and scores were injured in a suicide bombing targeting a Shia mosque in the Kuwaiti capital during Friday prayers. Thabet Al-Muhanna, governor of Kuwait City,...

Attack on a Tunisian hotel in Sousse, east of the country, has left at least 27 dead and injured six others, with figures likely to rise. Two gunmen opened...

Human Rights Watch yesterday criticised a Kuwaiti decree that effectively closed down the local chapter of Transparency International arguing that the decision "is the latest evidence of a government...

Human Rights Watch yesterday called on the Emir of Kuwait to release blogger Saleh Saeed who was sentenced to prison because of tweets he published on disagreements between Kuwait...

Kuwait has donated US$15 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for its work with Palestinian refugees across the Middle East, UNRWA said in a statement...

The mayor of Rafah, Subhi Abu Radwan, has announced that the Kuwaiti government is giving the municipality $2 million to establish an industrial zone in the city, which is...

A summit meeting between the US and Arab leaders ended Thursday with a US pledge to assist Gulf allies against external threats by any means, including militarily. President Barack...

US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday that Washington and the Gulf states are hammering out a new set of security initiatives in the Middle East to...

Media sources have reported that Brig. Gen. Ali Mamluk, National Security Chief in the Syrian regime, is currently fighting for his life in a Damascus hospital in mysterious circumstances....

The Saudi embassy in Kuwait filed a request to the country's Foreign Ministry calling for prosecuting a Shia Kuwaiti lawmaker for his "repeated insults to Saudi Arabia in the...

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) leaders will hold a "consultative summit" in Riyadh on 5 May ahead of their meeting with US President Barack Obama scheduled for 14 May in...

Kuwait has discovered four oil fields and two new hidden oil sources in northern and western regions of the country, the CEO of the state-run oil company has revealed...

The Kuwaiti government has deposited $2 billion in the Central Bank of Egypt to support the country's economy, Egypt's ambassador to Kuwait Abdul-Karim Suleiman said on Tuesday. According to...

Kuwaiti Foreign Minister, Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, stated that 'the objective of the Operation Decisive Storm is to return things back in their right order and bring all Yeminis...

Kuwaiti Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah said on Tuesday that his government, along with Kuwaiti NGOs would pay up to $500m of humanitarian aid to the Syrian people, according...

Spokesman for Kuwait Petroleum Corporation Sheikh Talal Al-Khaled Al-Sabah said on Monday that his country has signed a memorandum of understanding with Iraq to exploit joint oil fields. The...

Iran's ambassador to Kuwait has condemned the Saudi-led military operation codenamed "Decisive Storm" against Shia Houthi rebels in Yemen. Ali Reza Enayati said that the operation will create more...

Kuwaiti riot police have dispersed hundreds of Kuwaiti opposition activists who gathered outside parliament in the capital Kuwait City to demand the release of political prisoners and press for...

Kuwait has arrested the leader of the Islamist Ummah Party for allegedly insulting the neighbouring Gulf state of Saudi Arabia on television, the interior ministry has revealed in a...

Palestinian deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Mohammad Mustafa yesterday signed an agreement with the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development Resources fulfilling Kuwait's $200 million pledge to rebuild...

The Kuwaiti parliament announced on Sunday the re-launching of its website after it was briefly hacked by ISIS earlier the same day. In a press statement issued on Sunday,...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) attorney general on Sunday has pressed charges of "insulting" UAE officials against a former Kuwaiti MP and a leading member of a Muslim Brotherhood-linked...