Kuwait
The Emir of Kuwait has re-appointed Sheikh Jabel Al Mubarak Al Sabah as prime-minister. ...
Kuwait’s constitutional court has reinstated the previous parliament, causing heavy criticism and mass protest from the opposition....
A second Kuwaiti minister has resigned in less than a month as Islamist led opposition are actively demanding half of the cabinet posts....
The failure of the GCC to accept or even negotiate a Saudi proposal for further integration is a blow to the Saudi regional position....
Kuwait parliament's rejection to pass the government's four year development plan raises the level of both economic and political risk....
Kuwait’s parliament passed a law making blasphemy punishable by law. The law could be used to prosecute Shiites, potentially creating a serious long-term rift between Shiites and Sunnis....
The Emir of Kuwait attacks parliament and threatens to heavily crackdown on dissenters....
Cracks have appeared within the pro-government supporters in the Kuwaiti parliament, possibly indicating increasing tensions within the ruling family....
The new Kuwaiti government has been sworn in, immediately to face grilling requests from the opposition....
The relationships between the GCC and Iran have deteriorated on a number of fronts....
Threats by the Kuwaiti opposition to grill Sheikh Nasser as soon as he forms his seventh government in less than five years will likely lead to a complication of the political situation....
The Kuwaiti government has resigned, the first in the GCC to fall in an indirect result of the Bahrain uprising and as a result of worsening GCC-Iranian relations....
Kuwait’s Bidoons have staged protests demanding naturalization and other rights....
The Emir of Kuwait has accepted the resignation of the interior minister and appointed a replacement....
Stock markets across the GCC have tumbled as a result of the demonstrations in Egypt....
The Kuwaiti prime minister narrowly survived a vote of non-compliance in parliament. The very small margin in which the motion was defeated has prompted immediate calls for him to resign....
Kuwaiti prime minister is under unprecedented pressure by parliament to resign....
The increase of oil price to over US$ 90 per barrel is a positive development for all GCC states and Yemen....
Kuwait is going through unprecedented tensions between the government and the opposition, with MP’s beaten at a demonstration by police....
The US diplomatic cables published by wikileaks is likely to increase the risk of Iranian or Shiite attacks against some GCC states, who are claimed to have pushed the US to bomb Iran....