KUWAIT: The outlook for Kuwait's banks has improved after a turbulent year thanks to an expected increase in state infrastructure spending, the head of Gulf...
KUWAIT: Countries whose leaders were overthrown in the "Arab Spring" revolts of 2011 mostly made democratic gains in 2012 but the uprisings...
KUWAIT: In a room scented with incense, twelve men in long traditional robes sip sweet tea and debate the political future of Kuwait's tribes at one of...
DUBAI/KUWAIT: When Ahmed Abdul Khaleq started campaigning for the rights of his fellow stateless people in the United Arab Emirates, he was well aware he was...
KUWAIT: Tens of thousands of Kuwaitis marched in the capital on Saturday in peaceful protest against a parliament elected last week in the Gulf Arab state...
KUWAIT: Kuwait's Interior Ministry said it would take all necessary measures to prevent "unauthorized assembly" in the Gulf Arab state after...
Kuwait: Tens of thousands of people marched in Kuwait on Friday calling for a voter boycott, a day before a parliamentary election that looks unlikely to...
KUWAIT: A disparate collection of youth activists, Islamists and populist politicians have achieved rare unity in agreeing to boycott Kuwait’s...
KUWAIT: Kuwaiti authorities must allow protesters to gather peacefully and express their views without the threat of arrest, Amnesty International said ahead...
KUWAIT: Authorities will allow a protest march to go ahead the day before the Dec. 1 parliamentary election in Kuwait, the Gulf Arab state's prime...
KUWAIT: Kuwait's ruler said on Tuesday there would be no leniency towards threats to "the security of the homeland", two days after police broke...
KUWAIT: Kuwaiti security forces fired tear gas to disperse an unauthorised demonstration on Sunday by thousands of opposition supporters against new voting...
KUWAIT: OPEC member Kuwait plans to more than double the portion of state revenues it puts into a rainy day fund, mostly from oil, to 25 percent this fiscal...
KUWAIT: Kuwaiti logistics firm Agility says it is gearing up for expansion in emerging markets, much of it in countries that experienced Arab Spring political...
KUWAIT: Police released a member of Kuwait's Al-Sabah ruling family on Sunday after holding him for several days over remarks on Twitter in which he...
OUTSIDE AL-QAIM, Iraq: At a bare concrete building on the western edge of Iraq, hundreds of Syrian refugee families wait in the shade, anxious to find out...
AL-WALEED: They fled sectarian violence in Iraq years ago but are now desperately trying to get back - crammed into buses, trucks and cars out of Syria, once...
Kuwait is likely to face more instability in the long run even when it emerges from its latest crisis, as its opposition pushes for more say in governing the...
KUWAIT: A meeting of Kuwait's parliament was cancelled on Wednesday when the cabinet boycotted the session after a row over plans by opposition lawmakers...
KUWAIT: Kuwait will have exhausted all its oil savings by 2017 if it keeps on spending money at the current rate, the International Monetary Fund said in a...
KUWAIT: Poor urban infrastructure and high youth unemployment helped fuel the Arab Spring and governments across the region must tackle both if they are to...
KUWAIT: Kuwait's cabinet approved an amended draft law on Sunday paving the way for the privatisation of Kuwait Airways within three years, state-run news...
KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti court sentenced a local Sunni Muslim writer to seven years in jail and ordered that he pay nearly $18,000 in compensation after ruling that...
KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti artist whose pictures of men were deemed “obscene” by authorities said she would keep on producing art that challenged...
KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti man accused of insulting the Prophet Mohammad on Twitter has denied making any such comments, saying that his account must have been hacked,...