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In recent years, Gulf countries have enhanced city surveillance systems originally deployed for traffic management and public safety into sophisticated tools for tracking and targeting individuals. This report describes...

Given recent regional events, there has been significant OSAC member interest regarding potential impacts to operations across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This survey served to build a better understanding o...

Climate change is one of the most critical national security threats facing governments around the world. It has the potential, at the current rate, to worsen existing health, economic, and security conditions in fragile...

Residents of most industrialized western countries are used to freedom of speech at some level, usually restricted only when it has the potential to harm others. But some locations – including some of the more popular co...

On May 16, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued an Advisory Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) for overwater airspace above the Persian Gulf (also known as the Gulf of Arabia) and the Gulf of Oman, two strategic w...

The Persian Gulf region is home to major political and military rivals, raising the potential for geopolitical conflict. With a history of conflict, to include the 1990-1991 Gulf War, the region continues to experience r...

On June 26, three terror attacks were carried out within the space of three hours in France, Kuwait, and Tunisia. The first attack took place at a gas factory in south-eastern France. The second attack took place at a Sh...

In September 2014, Kuwait joined a U.S.-led coalition involving dozens of Middle Eastern and European countries to counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Traditionally a reliable U.S. ally in the regio...

Please find the latest edition of the OSAC Regional Analysis Bulletin (RAB). This week’s bulletin contains articles highlighting cargo theft in Mexico, turmoil in Sudan, North Korea's satellite launch plans, Kuwait's pol...

After five months without Parliament convening, Kuwait held National Assembly elections on December 1. Due to a boycott by the opposition, the election recorded the lowest turnout in the country’s history--40.3 percent,...

Since January 2011, the Middle East and North Africa has experienced unprecedented political upheaval, largely due to local outbreaks of civil unrest which have been prompted by both socio-economic and political concerns...

The US Embassy in Kuwait reported that on June 19, Kuwait’s highest court, the Court of Cassation, commuted the death sentences to life imprisonment for four defendants in the Peninsula Lions case.

This report lists some of major incidents that have taken place against Westerners in Kuwait in the spring and early summer of 2006.

On May 21, 2006, Sheik Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah, Kuwait’s ruler, dissolved parliament and called for early elections amid a dispute between the government and lawmakers over electoral reform. Parliamentary elections—origi...

Kuwaiti officials vowed to use all available resources to hunt down militants after security forces engaged in a nine-hour confrontation with Islamic radicals on January 31 that left five militants, one civilian, and one...