The Ministry of Social Affairs and Community Development (formerly Social Affairs Ministry) in Kuwait has issued a sweeping new directive banning all forms of smoking inside wedding halls owned or ...

KUWAIT CITY — Kuwaiti authorities have apprehended the person suspected of setting fire to a wedding tent and killing 41 people, and said Monday that the motive was personal. Local newspapers reported ...

Kuwaiti men pray over the remains of some of the 41 women and children who died in a fire in a wedding tent Saturday. KUWAIT CITY — A fire that tore through a wedding tent outside Kuwait’s capital ...

KUWAIT: In a show of social responsibility amid current circumstances, people across Kuwait are redefining how they mark their big day, abiding by regulations banning wedding celebrations, parties and ...

KUWAIT (Reuters) - A Kuwaiti wedding tent, where 41 women and children died in a fire Saturday, had only one exit, an official said, causing a stampede that compounded the death toll. "Since the first ...

KUWAIT CITY — A fire that tore through a wedding tent outside Kuwait's capital killed 41 women and children in minutes, leaving behind shoes melted to the ground and bodies so blackened they were ...

The independent Al-Qabas daily said the groom's former wife, who is 23 years old, poured gasoline on the tent and lit it because she felt her ex-husband mistreated her when they were married. A ...