Kuwait

US fighter jet downs Iranian drone near aircraft carrier, gunboats approach US-flagged tanker

Iranian Shahed-139 drone shot down by F-35 jet over Arabian Sea • In separate incident, six Iranian gunboats approach US-flagged oil tanker in Strait of Hormuz

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) sails alongside the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance (DDG 111) in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations.
Qatar Emiri Air Force personnel load aid onto a military cargo plane headed to Syria, at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, December 30, 2024.

Where are the American bases in the Middle East Iran threatened it might strike? - explainer

Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and prime minister Menachem Begin acknowledge applause during a joint session of Congress in which US president Jimmy Carter announced the results of the Camp David Accords on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 18, 1978.

Voices from the Arab Press: Israel, Donald Trump, and Anwar Sadat

AMER GHALIB speaks at a rally for then-presidential nominee Donald Trump in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on the eve of US Election Day last November. Diplomatic appointments must transcend campaign considerations, the writer asserts.

The troubling case of Amer Ghalib: Trump's Kuwait pick raises red flags - opinion


Voices from the Arab press: Sit home and get paid

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 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud deliver remarks to reporters before meeting at the State Department in Washington, US, October 14, 2021.

Kuwait emir accepts government resignation

Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid al-Sabah submitted on Nov. 8 the resignation of his cabinet, formed in March.

 Kuwait's new Emir Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah gestures as he takes the oath of office at the parliament, in Kuwait City, Kuwait September 30, 2020.

Voices from the Arab press: Disaster of Iraqi invasion of Kuwait

What is happening in Lebanon is one big tragedy that the international media refuses to recount

 DEMONSTRATORS TAKE cover this week during clashes with security forces during a protest near Beiruts’s parliament, as Lebanon marks the one-year anniversary of the explosion in the city.

Voices from the Arab Press: Franco-American relations and implications for Lebanon

The visit of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Paris confirms the new and emerging US-French relationship that has grown ever tighter under Macron and US President Joe Biden.

US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken (right) fist bumps French Foreign Minister JeanYves Le Drian at the Elysee Palace in Paris, June 25.

Kuwait-Saudi visit cements ties, is there a message to Israel?

According to reports at The New Arab Kuwait has drafted a bill that aims to solidify Kuwait’s “anti-normalization” stance against Israel.

A VIEW shows vehicles driving on a street in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia earlier this month.

650 pounds of matzah are being shipped to Saudi Arabia, other Gulf states

The matzah is also being shipped to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman and Kuwait. The Jewish association will also be providing Passover resources to American troops in the region.

 Jews in Tehran producing matza this week ahead of the Passover holiday.

Jerusalem Yeshiva live-streams Megillah reading to US troops in Kuwait

"What an amazing opportunity it is to join together in our yeshiva at the kotel, in the Old City of Jerusalem, with Jews so far away that we have never met," Rabbi Rosman said.

Rabbi David Rosman reads the Megillah on Purim while live-streaming to US Army troops stationed in Kuwait, Feb. 25, 2021.

Six Gulf states’ Jews unite in Beth Din of Arabia

Organization to include communities from UAE, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

 Beirut-born Elie Abadie (R) and Ambassador Houda Nonoo

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North Korean diplomat defects to South Korea -lawmaker

Kuwait had been a key source of foreign currency for Pyongyang, which sent thousands of laborers there, mostly for construction projects.

North Korean soldiers are seen at their guard post inside North Korean territory, in this picture taken from Paju, South Korea, near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas, June 17, 2020