The minimum you must know

Kuwait mistakenly took down three U.S.A. F-15E strike eagle jets on March 2, 2026, according to televised news reports, immediately following conflict and leadership turnover in Iran. All six crew members ejected safely. So everyone involved survived.

Iranian drones look similar to U.S. military jets from a distance. Kuwait state media put out a statement that they intercepted over 400 missiles and drones from Iran the same day. A few impacted civilian buildings and a civilian airport.

In June 2025, the U.S. authorized non-essential staff to depart Kuwait, signifying a planned substantial reduction of personnel there. This decision was hoped for by governments in the region. But it was in context of developing tension with Iran around that time.

The region mostly experienced peace throughout 2025, in large part because of a very successful televised October 2025 peace conference in Egypt for Palestine, and because of the full lifting of sanctions on neighboring Syria.

His Highness Sabah Al Khaled Al Sabah Crown Prince of Kuwait patterned “peace” eloquently at the start of his presentation at the 80th session of the United Nations. He led rhetorically ethically and with integrity.

In December 2024, the Kingdom of Kuwait became Chairman of the four decade old Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), a political, economic and security alliance between Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman. The U.S. actively encouraged alignment for Kuwait to create peace, after defending Kuwait from Iraq. The group has been organizing important free trade agreements and international sporting events ever since. The alliance has become very influential in global diplomacy. In this writer’s opinion, Kuwait would be a great candidate to enter into an Abraham Accord with Israel next, because they might be able to include all of the GCC member states.

Kuwait is a moderately to well populated coastal technically West Asian country that's considered part of the Middle East in the United States. Kuwait fully militarily aligned with the United States and NATO to successfully repel an Iraqi incursion in the early 1990s. A three decade long and still on-going intervention ensued that precipitated the surrender of the Iraqi military and complete liberation of Kuwait. Much earlier, in the early 1990s, President George Bush Sr. had left the Iraqi government unharmed during a previous conflict. But his son George Bush Jr. decided to go further to protect Kuwait, and topple Iraqi leaders, following the tragic events of September 11th, 2001. Iraq currently has a democratically elected government that was installed by NATO that developed independent credibility within the region and beyond. And Kuwait remains independent and closely U.S. aligned to this day.

The conflict wasn’t geographically limited to Kuwait and Iraq. Around 2004, it spilled across a wide open Iraqi border into Syria and later into neighboring Afghanistan. Hundreds of thousands of lives were lost and tens of millions of people fled to Turkey and Europe over the course of twenty years. There is comparable peace in all of those countries now and substantial reverse migration. So they are filling with residents again. U.S. sanctions were historically lifted on Syria and Iraq, making this possible. So countries bordering Kuwait are hopeful for NATO troop drawdowns. Hope initially developed when then-President Joe Biden withdrew NATO almost entirely from Afghanistan, and later when current President Donald J. Trump's newspaper Newsmax indicated he does not envision NATO military involvement in Syria. NATO is considering Iraq’s proposal that the foreign presence there become purely diplomatic.

Kuwait is predominantly Muslim and consequently desirous of peace. That may be why Kingdom currently seems to align very well with all sides - the original goal of NATO when intervening there.

The Kingdom of Kuwait provides socialist support to their people but also supports open elections and democracy at the United Nations, and for neighboring Iraq.

Kuwait is globally at peace, and seeks improving relations with all other countries.