Kuwait Arrests More Suspects in Plot to Assassinate Leaders

Kuwait City skyline.

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Kuwait said it had arrested another group affiliated with Hezbollah, foiling a terror plot that called for the assassination of leaders and senior officials in the Gulf state.

Five Kuwaiti nationals and one other person were part of the group planning terror operations, the Ministry of Interior said in a statement on Wednesday.