Kuwait’s National Assembly approved a draft law regulating the parliamentary elections (General Elections Commission Law) and excluding women who don’t abide by Islamic Sharia law from practicing political rights of voting and nomination.The National...

Saudi Arabia has said it enjoys "full rights" along with Kuwait to a disputed gas field in the resource-rich Gulf, pushing back against claims by Iran, state media reported late Tuesday.The field, known as Arash in Iran and Dorra in Kuwait and Saudi...

The Kuwait Oil Company declared a "state of emergency" on Monday following an oil spill on land, but said no injuries or disruption to production had been reported.The emergency followed an "oil leak in the west of the country", the state-owned compa...

By AFPKuwait's caretaker cabinet submitted a draft 2023-2024 budget on Tuesday projecting a growing deficit with bigger state spending and lower oil revenues.The budget deficit will swell to five billion dinars (more than $16 billion) for the year st...

Women returned to Kuwait's national assembly on Thursday as the opposition won a majority in the Gulf's only fully elected parliament, which held its sixth election in a decade.Twenty-eight of the 50 seats were won by opposition candidates as 20 form...

By AFPThe Kuwaiti government on Sunday called a legislative election for September 29, the state news agency said, two months after parliament was dissolved amid simmering political tensions.The only Gulf state with a fully elected legislature, the k...

Rehab Boresli of Kuwait has been elected as a member of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) through a ballot held at the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday, Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) announced.According...

Anger continues to rage in the Arab region against the offensive remarks insulting the Prophet Muhammad by leaders of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Nupur Sharma and Naveen Kumar Jindal on Prophet Muhammed. In responder, Saudi Ar...