Overview
- UAE state security said it arrested members of a network it alleges was funded and directed by Hezbollah and Iran, operating under a fake commercial cover to infiltrate the economy and launder money.
- WAM reported the group sought to finance terrorism and threaten national security and published a photo of several men without disclosing their identities.
- Kuwait’s Interior Ministry said it foiled a plot to target vital facilities, arresting 10 Kuwaiti nationals after earlier detaining 14 Kuwaitis and two Lebanese in separate sweeps.
- Kuwaiti authorities said the suspects trained abroad in camps linked to Hezbollah and gave detailed confessions, while Hezbollah publicly denied operating cells in Kuwait and, per Long War Journal, also rejected the UAE’s claims.
- Officials’ statements were issued as cross-border attacks and missile‑drone strikes roil the region, and most reporting on the alleged cells relies on state security accounts with few independently verified details.