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Iran Launches Retaliatory Strikes On Kuwait After New US Attacks

June 1, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Ceasefire Violations, Iran, Kuwait, Wars and Militarism

Iran announced on 1 June new retaliatory strikes overnight in response to another attack launched by the US military in violation of the so-called ceasefire between Washington and Tehran. In a statement, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said its Aerospace Force struck the air base from which the US attack was launched, claiming that its designated targets were destroyed. The IRGC warned that a repeat of US violations would be met with a “completely different” response, adding that responsibility would lie with the “aggressor and child-killing US regime.”

US Project Freedom Fell Apart After ‘Backlash’ From Saudi Arabia, Kuwait

May 7, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Donald Trump, Iran, Kuwait, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Strait of Hormuz, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

Saudi Arabia and Kuwait suspended US access to their military sites in opposition to Washington’s so-called Project Freedom, according to a 6 May report by NBC News. “Trump’s abrupt reversal on his plan to help ships go through the Strait of Hormuz came after [Saudi Arabia] suspended the US military’s ability to use its bases and airspace to carry out the operation,” two US officials told the US outlet. The officials said Washington's Persian Gulf allies were “surprised” by Trump’s announcement of Project Freedom over the weekend, which the US leader framed as a means of breaking Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz.

Kuwait Must Release The Journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

April 14, 2026 Chris Hedges, Substack. Resist! Journalist, Kuwait, Press Freedom, State Repression

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, a fearless Palestinian-American journalist whose writing and reports are defined by unparalleled integrity, depth and eloquence, was arrested on March 3 in Kuwait. He is charged with spreading false information and harming national security. His arrest took place following his reporting of the shooting down of three U.S. fighter planes by the Kuwaiti military in an act of friendly fire during the US-Israel war with Iran. Ahmed, along with other news outlets such as the BBC, published footage of a US F-15 E Strike Eagle crashing in al-Jahra west of Kuwait City.

Three F-15 Jets Downed In Kuwait

March 2, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Iran, Kuwait, US military, Wars and Militarism

Multiple US warplanes crashed in Kuwait early on 2 March amid Iran's ongoing defense against US and Israeli air and missile attacks. Iran's Armed Forces announced on Monday that Iranian air defenses shot down three US fighter jets using their domestic air defense systems. In contrast, US officials claimed three of its F-15E Strike Eagle war planes were mistakenly downed by friendly Kuwaiti fire seeking to repel an Iranian air assault. “All six aircrew ejected safely, have been safely recovered and are in stable condition,” a US Central Command (CENTCOM) release stated.

Thousands Of US Troops To Fight In Syria, Iraq

March 12, 2017 Jason Ditz, www.antiwar.com Educate! Iraq, Kuwait, Syria, Wars and Militarism

By Jason Ditz for AntiWar.com. Instead of directly deploying thousands of additional ground troops into Iraq or Syria, the sort of precipitous escalation that might get Congress voting on the war, the Trump Administration appears to have decided that the solution is to send thousands of US ground troops to Kuwait, and let the commanders in Iraq and Syria just take what they want. Early reports of this strategy emerged Wednesday, when officials said there were considerations of sending around 1,000 troops into Kuwait for this operation. Just two days later, the figure was up to at least 2,500, with signs that it is continuing to grow all the time. While President Obama was micromanaging the escalations, particularly in Iraq, where every couple of weeks another hundred or two troops would be sent, the Trump Administration appears to be throwing the troops into a big pile and leaving the deployments up to the commanders.

Man Released From Guantanamo After 13 Years Without Charge

November 7, 2014 Andrea Germanos, www.commondreams.org Educate! Guantanamo Bay, Kuwait, Mass Incarceration

A man held at the Guantánamo Bay prison for nearly 13 years without charge has been transferred to his home country of Kuwait. The Department of Defense made the announcement of his release Wednesday. Thirty-seven-year-old Fawzi al Odah is the first man to be released based on the assessment of the Periodic Review Board, a body established in 2011 through an executive order and tasked with evaluating the merits of ongoing detention for Guantánamo prisoners. Agence France-Presse reports that in 2001, Odah "was seized by tribesmen in northern Pakistan, who sold him to the Pakistani army, which in turn handed him over to the United States." The transfer agreement requires al Odah to spend at least a year at a rehabilitation facility, according to reporting by the Associated Press.

Tar Sands Trade: Kuwait Buys Stake In Alberta

October 15, 2014 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Educate! Canada, Climate Change, Energy, History, ISIS, Kuwait, Tar Sands, Wars and Militarism

Chevron made waves in the business world when it announced its October 6 sale of 30-percent of its holdings in the Alberta-based Duvernay Shale basin to Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (KUFPEC) for $1.5 billion. It marked the first North American purchase for the Kuwaiti state-owned oil company and yields KUFPEC 330,000 acres of Duvernay shale gas. Company CEO and the country's Crown Prince, Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, called it an “anchor project” that could spawn Kuwait's expansion into North America at-large. Kuwait's investment in the Duvernay, at face-value buying into Canada'shydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) revolution, was actually also an all-in bet on Alberta's tar sands. As explained in an October 7 article in Platts, the Duvernay serves as a key feedstock for condensate, a petroleum product made from gas used to dilute tar sands, allowing the product to move through pipelines.

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