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Saudi Arabia
Arab states agree to provide millions to pay opposition fighters in Syria
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Bahrain
Islamic Lending Grows as Western Banks Take Breather
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Tunisia
Arab Spring Fails to Allay Women’s Anxieties
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Al Qaeda
Gulf Arabs Deny Arms to Syria Rebels
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Kuwait
Pakistan – Seminaries in KP collected over Rs30m from abroad
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Kuwait
Kuwaitis punish government over graft, say analysts
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Kuwait
In parliamentary elections, the opposition Islamist party won a majority, securing 34 of the 50 seats. The election was held after parliament was dissolved over allegations of corruption in December.
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Kuwait
Islamists favourites as Kuwait goes to the polls
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Iran
US boosts its military presence in Persian Gulf
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Al Qaeda
US War in Iraq Declared Officially Over
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Iraq
US Plans Post-Iraq Troop Increase in Persian Gulf
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Iran
Iraqi speaker warns of meddling after US pullout
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Iraq
In Iraq’s oil-rich south, concerns about the neighbors
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Al Qaeda
US Sees Iranian, al Qaeda Alliance
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Libya
West prepares to hand rebels Gaddafi’s billions
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Iraq
Iraq takes over billions in oil revenue set aside by UN
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Afghanistan
Pentagon: Wait until Fall 2012 to end Afghanistan troop boost
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Al Qaeda
Investigators track bin Laden’s couriers
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Al Qaeda
What Pakistan’s ISI doesn’t want the world to know about Osama bin Laden’s couriers
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Saudi Arabia
Facing up to end of ‘easy oil’
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Kuwait
A fistfight broke out in parliament after Salafists attacked a Shia lawmaker who called Kuwaitis detained at Guantanamo Bay terrorists. Two Kuwaitis remain at Guantanamo. Abdullah Salih al Ajmi, a former detainee who was released in 2006, carried out a suicide attack in Iraq in 2008.
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Kuwait
A fight broke out in a Kuwait City mosque after the imam wanted those in attendance to take part in a ceremony that would commemorate al Qaeda emir Osama bin Laden. Some of the worshipers protested, sparking the clash.
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Al Qaeda in Iraq
Gulf states seek to broker Yemen’s Saleh exit
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Kuwait
The government will expel “a group of Iranian diplomats” for their alleged involvement with a spy ring in the Gulf country. Three members of the spy ring were serving in the Kuwaiti military and have been sentenced to death. Iran denies its diplomats are involved in spying.
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Libya
Gulf Arab states defend military action in Libya
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Al Qaeda
Egypt – The beginning of a new struggle
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Bahrain
Gulf leaders hear rumblings of dissent
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Iraq
Gulf war, 20 years on: Kuwait emerges from under Iraq’s shadow
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Afghanistan
Cash flow to terrorists evades US efforts
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Judge finds that Kuwaiti Gitmo detainee was no charity worker
A district judge denied a Kuwaiti Gitmo detainee’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus in September. The detainee, Fayiz al Kandari, claims that he was a mere charity worker, but he was really an influential al Qaeda recruiter with ties to a terror cell that launched an attack on the US Marines in 2002.
