An unidentified man chants as others wave the flag of the Al Ahwaz Liberation Organization during a protest in front of the European Council building in Brussels, on April 18, 2008. (AP) December 30, 2019 Iran summoned Kuwait's envoy in Tehran on Saturday to protest about Kuwaiti officials meeting a representative of a [...]
US navy launches 'largest maritime exercise' to protect Gulf allies following Iran tensions, June 2019. (Getty) November 26, 2019 Qatar and Kuwait have told the United States that they will join a US-led naval coalition in the Arabian Gulf which was established in response to a series of attacks on oil tankers, a [...]
An aerial view of Kuwait city. (AFP) September 9, 2019 Iran is offering Iranian citizenship to stateless people with “Iranian roots” residing in Kuwait, said the country’s ambassador to Kuwait on Sunday, according to Kuwaiti newspaper al-Rai. Iran’s ambassador to Kuwait, Mohammad Irani, stressed his country’s readiness to naturalize stateless residents in Kuwait, [...]
Surface-to-air missiles are paraded past a portrait of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, on April 18. (AFP) September 27, 2018 Kuwait’s Foreign Minister has asked the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday to take actions to stop Houthi militias from threatening international borders. Kuwait said that the Houthi militias use [...]
Kuwaiti Deputy Foreign Minister Khalid Al Jarallah. (Supplied) September 21, 2018 While Kuwait has agreed to the new appointment of the Iranian ambassador who will replace Ali Reza Enayati, it reaffirmed on Thursday that it would not appoint an ambassador to Tehran in return until Iran changes its approaches and policies in the [...]
Khalid Al Jarallah, Kuwait’s Deputy Foreign Minister. (Gulf News) September 15, 2017 Iran’s interference in Arab domestic affairs and its spread of terrorism represent a grave menace to the security and stability of the Arab region, Kuwait’s Deputy Foreign Minister has said. “Despite Kuwait’s efforts to open up communication channels for dialogue between [...]
President Donald Trump listens as Kuwait leader Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017, in Washington. (AP) September 12, 2017 According to a White House spokesperson, on September 8th, U.S. President Donald Trump urged Saudi Arabia and [...]
Lebanese Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil. (NNA) August 16, 2017 Lebanese Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil telephoned on Friday his Kuwaiti counterpart Sabah al-Khaled al-Hamad al-Sabah to follow up on the al-Abdali terrorist cell, the members of which had received training from Lebanon’s “Hezbollah” group. Bassil and his counterpart discussed the official complaint that Kuwait [...]
Twelve convicts arrested in Kuwait on Saturday. (Saudi Gazette) August 14, 2017 Authorities on Saturday arrested 12 convicted members of a "terrorist cell" with ties to Iran and Lebanon's Shiite movement Hezbollah after a weeks-long manhunt. The Interior Ministry said the 12 had been captured in different areas across Kuwait. They had been [...]
An aerial view of Kuwait city. (AFP) August 2, 2017 The Kuwait Foreign Ministry denied on Wednesday a recent Reuters report that alleged that the country’s territorial waters were being used to transfer Iranian weapons to Yemen’s Houthi rebels. A source from the ministry stressed that Kuwait’s territorial waters were under the complete [...]
