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Kuwait calls on Turkey to set up a military base on Kuwaiti territory

19 October 2018

The recent voyage to Kuwait of Saudi Crown Prince, Mohamed ben Salmane, has
deeply troubled Kuwait’s leaders.
During his visit, the Crown Prince proposed establishing borders between
the two countries by annexing oil fields (Khafji and Wafra) which have
barely been exploited.
This is (…)

Diplomatic Crisis between Kuwait and Iran

22 July 2017

The regional stage: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have announced breaking off diplomatic relations with Qatar; Qatar is now relying on the support of Iran and Turkey. Enter a new diplomatic crisis between Kuwait and Iran.
What’s happened is that the Supreme Court of (…)

Legal Action Against KTKB, the bank that finances jihad

22 June 2016

Me Mogeeb Weiss, a lawyer in San Francisco, has filed an action in North Carolina on behalf of the Syrian association, Saint-François-d’Assise. He is accusing Kuveyt Turk Katilim Bankasi A.S. (KTKB) of financing all jihadi groups operating in Syria and in Iraq. [1].
The action relies on the (…)

Israel and the Emirs in Nato

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 3 June 2016

The same day (4 May) that the new Supreme Allied Commander in Europe - US General Curtis Scaparrotti - took office at Nato, appointed just like his 17 predecessors by the US President, the North Atlantic Council announced that an official Israeli mission would be established at Nato’s (…)

NATO accepts five new “observer” states

9 May 2016

NATO has accepted that five states be considered «observers» and benefit from an office at the Alliance headquarters.
They are - Bahreïn, Israël, Jordan, Qatar and Kuwait.
The Emirates do not seem to have wished for their own office.
The announcement was held up by the Turco-Israëli (…)

Jordan to build massive refugee camp

4 May 2014

Jordan is about to build, in Azraq, a new camp to house refugees from Syria. It should cost $ 63.5 million and accommodate 130,000 people, some from Zaatari.
There are currently 106,000 Syrians Zaatari refugee camp (photo), designed to accommodate only 85,000 (this is the second refugee camp (…)

New Kuwaiti Justice Minister is Al-Qaeda’s financier

27 April 2014

The U.S. authorities expressed their deep concern at the appointment of Nayef al-Ajmi as Kuwait’s justice minister and minister of Islamic affairs and endowments.
According David S. Cohen, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, the Kuwaiti (…)

Failed Qatari coup attempt in Kuwait

9 May 2012

Kuwaiti police arrested a group of Qatari agents charged for overthrowing Emir Al-Sabah IV.
The seized documents corroborate the existence of a plot organized by Emir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani of Qatar. Copies of these documents as well as the legal proceedings were immediately transmitted by (…)

Setting the U.S. Trap for Saddam Hussein (Part 2)

The 1991 Gulf Massacre

by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

London (United Kingdom) | 8 November 2009

In the second part of his study Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed offers a behind-the-scenes account of the 1991 Gulf War revealing that, contrary to conventional opinion, there exists considerable evidence to indicate that the Gulf War had not only been anticipated by the United States, but fell well (…)

Security Council members condemned the execution of Kuwaiti and third country nationals by the previous Iraqi regime

New York (USA) | 17 April 2006

On 17 April, members of the Security Council received a briefing from Ambassador Yuli Vorontsov, the Secretary-General’s High-Level Coordinator, on his activities in accordance with paragraph 14 of Security Council resolution 1284 (1999). Council members expressed their full support for (…)

Press statement by the Security Council on sanctions againts former iraki leaders

25 August 2005

The following press statement on Iraq-Kuwait was delivered today by Security Council President Kenzo Oshima (Japan):