Sources: IOL
Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah is appointed as Prime Minister of Kuwait. 2024-01-4
Kuwait says that it has carried out a mass execution of seven convicted murderers, including three foreign citizens. 2022-11-16
Kuwait lifts many of its COVID-19-related restrictions, including allowing foreign travel for unvaccinated and vaccinated citizens and allowing the entry of unvaccinated people into shopping malls as long as they show a negative PCR COVID-19 test from the previous 72 hours. 2022-02-14
Kuwait announces that it will ban unvaccinated people from travelling internationally beginning on August 1. However, the rule exempts children under the age of 16, those with a health ministry certificate saying that they cannot be vaccinated, and pregnant women who have a proof of pregnancy certificate. 2021-07-27
Kuwait reports its first death from COVID-19 as cases reach 479. 2020-04-4
Kuwaitian state news agency KUNA says its official Twitter account was hacked after it spread a fake news report that the United States Army would withdraw from Camp Arifjan within three days. 2020-01-8
Saudi Arabia, and subsequently the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, urge all citizens currently in Lebanon to leave the country immediately. Recently, Saudi Arabia declared that a missile attack on its airport from Yemen was "an act of war" by Lebanon. 2017-11-10
Qatar and Kuwait join Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates in asking its citizens to leave or avoid travel to Lebanon. 2016-02-24
Riot police in Kuwait attack demonstrators with teargas, stun grenades and batons. 2012-10-22
Police fire tear gas and stun grenades at an anti-government protest in Kuwait; protesters were demonstrating against changes to voting laws. 2012-10-21