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Kuwait hanged seven prisoners, including a royal family member and a woman convicted of killing more than 40 people, in a mass execution on Wednesday, the first death sentences carried out in several years in the oil-rich emirate.

The top official in the government of predominantly Muslim Kuwait has reportedly ordered the removal of a Christmas tree from a privately-owned supermarket in an apparent response to an anti-Christmas campaign launched by a member of parliament who considers the ornament un-Islamic.

Kuwait’s appeals court has upheld a 10-year jail sentence against an online activist on charges of insulting the emir and harming national interests, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

TEL AVIV – More and more Arabic-language newspapers are publishing articles urging Arab nations to appoint women as heads of state, claiming that while the West has understood the power of female leaders, the Arab world continues to marginalize women.

TEL AVIV – Kuwaiti writer and film producer Tareq Baddar has slammed Islamic preachers who incite against Jews in mosques and who claim that Jews spread evil in the world while ignoring Muslims who spread terror and pornography among other sins.

A woman who suspected her husband of cheating on her with their maid found evidence to prove her hunch when her pet parrot started squawking saucy lines that she knew hadn’t been said to her. The woman took the parrot

Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen launched an airstrike against an aid ship owned by a company from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a member of the largely Sunni Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), and part of the Saudi-led Arab alliance fighting the Shiite rebels, according to the state-controlled Emirates News Agency (WAM).

The Home Office has uncovered an immigration scam aimed at bringing hundreds of migrants into Britain using family reunion laws, a report has revealed. Imams at a mosque in Kuwait were found to be signing marriage certificates for migrants claiming

DOHA/BERLIN The United States is poised to sell $7 billion worth of Boeing Co fighter jets to Qatar and Kuwait after years of delays, and it may start notifying US lawmakers as early as next week, four US- and Gulf-based sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Kuwaiti authorities have reportedly arrested a woman from the Philippines accused of planning to launch an attack in their country on behalf of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).

TEL AVIV – The Islamic State plans to attack U.S. bases in Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, an Israeli cyberintelligence company that claimed to have hacked the terror group’s organization’s communications warned on Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – “Leave ISIS Be” is the provocative title of an article published in the last week by the Kuwaiti daily, Al-Jarida, which claims that the best way to combat the terror group is to impose recognition of it as a sovereign state, thereby forcing it to accept accountability for its actions on the international stage.

With attacks or thwarted plots in Kuwait, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia in the past two weeks, the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) appears to be expanding its reach in the Arab world outside of Syria and Iraq, where it established its “Caliphate.”

A video showing a Kuwaiti shop owner abusing an Egyptian employee suspected of stealing has made the rounds in the Arabic news media and on social media in recent days. In the undated video, Abu Abdullah, the owner of a mobile phone shop in Kuwait’s Alaziziya district, is seen whipping his employee, who had been stripped naked, while verbally abusing him and finally urinating on him.

Lebanon’s Shi’ite Muslim movement Hezbollah said on Saturday its top military commander Mustafa Badreddine was killed in Syria by artillery shells fired by Sunni Islamist insurgents near Damascus airport. Hezbollah announced Badreddine’s death on Friday and held a military funeral

The Times of Israel reports: Kuwait’s minister of information, Sheikh Salman a-Sabah visited the Temple Mount on Saturday to pray at the al-Aqsa Mosque, later meeting with Palestinian Authority officials in Ramallah.

Army Captain Nathan Michael Smith, 28, has filed suit against President Obama in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, contending that the President lacks legal authority for his war against the Islamic State.

Kuwait will begin enforcing a security law this year that will make it the first country in the world to require DNA samples from all citizens and visitors.

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members and the United States have reached an agreement to prevent the shipment of Iranian weapons to Yemen, according to Abdullatif al-Zayani, the alliance’s secretary general.

A Kuwaiti professor and human rights activist may face criminal charges after she said in an interview that the constitution should take precedence over Sharia law.

JERUSALEM – A Kuwaiti writer and media personality called on all Arab and Muslim states to recognize Israel in an article published over the weekend.

JERUSALEM – A Kuwaiti journalist slammed a local imam in a recent column for cursing Jews and Christians who, he wrote, were the ones who discovered the Arab world’s oil and invented the tools necessary to extract it from the

TEL AVIV – In the wake of the Brussels attacks, the Arab press has been awash with explosive articles acknowledging the Muslim world’s responsibility for global terror. The views expressed by writers from Kuwait to Jordan to Saudi Arabia represent a brutal reckoning

TEL AVIV – After it received an intercepted communication detailing the terrorist group Black September’s plans to bomb New York City and assassinate then-Israeli prime minister Golda Meir, the National Security Agency had to debate how best to disseminate the

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Lebanon must take action to stop Iran’s terror proxy Hezbollah from exporting its “mercenaries” into Yemen and Syria, reportedly urged a Saudi military spokesman.

JAFFA, Israel – Kuwait police have published new “modesty rules” for its female officers following a recent surge in complaints. While on duty, female officers must not “wear tight clothes, conspicuous hairpins, bracelets and earrings,” the new regulations dictate. Nor

The 1991 Gulf War saw only 100 hours of ground fighting as U.S. forces entered Kuwait to end the Iraqi occupation, but echoes of that conflict have lingered for decades in the Middle East.

TEL AVIV – A Kuwaiti university lecturer recently called for Arab state schools to abolish religious studies, claiming the majority of the Arab world’s problems stem from official school curriculum. Dr. Ibtihal Al-Khatib, a liberal and secular activist, penned her

JAFFA, Israel – A Kuwait City council decision to approve the construction of new churches has raised the ire of prominent Islamists, Al Rai newspaper reported. Hay Elhay, a high-profile Kuwaiti cleric, said that the construction of churches on Kuwaiti

Kuwait Air has announced it will halt passenger service from New York’s JFK airport to Heathrow in London by January 18, due to a requirement by the United States Department of Transportation that it cease discrimination against Israeli travelers.

A Kuwaiti court has sentenced two men in their 20s to death on charges of spying for the Islamic Republic of Iran and planning terror attacks inside the country.

Israel National News describes a Kuwaiti newspaper’s report about President Barack Obama’s post-presidential plans as “somewhat far-fetched,” but apparently plausible enough to bounce through publications around the world.

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On Wednesday, the Sunni nations of Qatar and Djibouti announced they would be severing diplomatic ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran, becoming the 9th and 10th nations to officially cut relations, roll back ties, or condemn the Shiite theocracy in the past week.