Overview
- Kuwait’s Interior Ministry says state security broke up a network that planned to assassinate senior officials.
- Authorities say six detainees confessed to espionage and terrorist acts after overseas training in weapons, explosives, surveillance and assassination skills.
- Five of the six who confessed are Kuwaiti citizens, six suspects had their Kuwaiti nationality revoked, and 14 more suspects were identified abroad as Kuwaitis, Lebanese and Iranians.
- Hezbollah responded by denying any presence in Kuwait and rejected the accusations as untrue.
- UAE and Qatari authorities reported parallel operations against alleged Iran- and Hezbollah-linked cells, and a joint statement by six Arab states warned of sleeper-cell threats, with public details largely limited to official security accounts.