Kuwait

Bulgaria's government on Wednesday proposed to the President to transfer the accreditation of the country's diplomatic representation to Bahrain and Oman to Qatar from Kuwait.

As hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees languish in camps or risk their lives to reach Europe, questions are being asked about why wealthy Gulf states have accepted so few.
 
By the end of August, more than four million Syrians had fled their country but very few if any refugees have been officially accepted by the six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council.
 

We are talking about Saudi Arabia. 

It is a country that is filthy rich and sends its petro dollars to U.S. banks. 

The members of the family live in the utmost luxury. 

They enjoy palaces that are much bigger than ours. Saudi Arabia has closed its door. It does not allow even one desperate refugee to pass through the doors of the country.

The Arab League said it had postponed indefinitely a ministerial meeting set for Aug. 27 to approve the creation of a joint military force to intervene against jihadists.

An Irish citizen has been captured on video beating up an army of Istanbul shopkeepers after he was attacked with sticks and stools. After the footage emerged, the man was declared a hero on social media. 

Turkey?s Limak ?n?aat announced it won a tender to build the new terminal in the Kuwait International Airport for $4.34 billion in a written statement on Aug. 18. 

The company, the construction unit of Limak Holding, said the bid of 1.31 billion dinars ($4.34 billion) was approved by the Kuwait Central Tenders Committee (CTC). 

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif?s visit to Turkey has been postponed, a Turkish Foreign Ministry official told the Hürriyet Daily News on Aug. 11.

A suicide bomb attack inside a mosque in a local security forces headquarters in Abha city in south-west Saudi Arabia killed 13 people and wounded nine on Aug. 6, the Saudi state news agency reported, citing an interior ministry spokesman.

State television had earlier reported a death toll of 17. 

Washington has agreed to speed up arms sales to Gulf states, US Secretary of State John Kerry announced on August 3 after talks in Doha on their concerns over the Iran nuclear deal.

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Qatar on August 2 for talks with his Gulf Arab counterparts on the next leg of a regional tour to ease allies' concerns over the Iran nuclear deal.