Rivalries within the royal family and feuding between government ... The cabinet, formed by the Kuwaiti emir's son Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on Sunday after a third ...

The passing away of Sheikh Nawaf’s generation and the emergence of younger, more assertive rulers in other gulf Arab nations has increased pressure on the Kuwaiti royal family to pass power to ...

including one member of the Kuwait royal family. According to Amnesty International, 108 countries have banned the death penalty as of 2021. The organization estimates that 579 people were executed ...

Unusually among the dynastic rulers of the Gulf, Kuwait’s royal family has long been challenged by the area’s most independent parliament, the National Assembly, which not only enacts ...

The Kuwait government hanged seven prisoners in the first mass execution in five years. Those killed included three Kuwaiti men, a Kuwaiti woman, a Syrian man, a Pakistani man, and an Ethiopian woman.

In the wake of the Abraham Accords and the growing trend of normalization between Israel and Arab states, the small emirate of Kuwait stands out as a notable exception that puzzles many observers.

An attorney for al-Sabah argued at the hearing that the late emir of Kuwait had given his client complete authority to use the funds that belonged to the royal family, not the Kuwaiti government. A ...

A member of the Kuwaiti ruling family was arrested, authorities announced. The royal was "escaping the implementation of an enforceable prison sentence on a drug charge," according to a social ...

A doctor who was assigned to senior members of Kuwait’s royal family has won race discrimination claims after being sacked from its London embassy. Dr Lyazid Fenniche, 60, brought the claims ...