Kuwait arrests six affiliated with Lebanon’s Hezbollah, thwarts ‘terrorist’ plot

Kuwait on Wednesday arrested six people affiliated with the Iran-backed Lebanese Hezbollah group for planning assassinations in the country, the interior ministry said.

“State Security Apparatus thwarted a terrorist plot and detained six members of a cell…who were planning assassinations of state leaders and recruiting others to carry out [similar] plots,” the ministry said in a statement, adding that five of those arrested are Kuwaiti while the sixth is a Kuwaiti whose nationality had been revoked.

According to the ministry, the cell also includes 14 other members who fled Kuwait: five nationals, five Kuwaitis whose nationalities have been revoked, two Iranians and two Lebanese.

The arrested members confessed “to joining a terrorist organization,” the ministry said, adding that they had received “advanced military training by Hezbollah” in a foreign country.