Interior Minister Marwan Charbel stated that Kuwaiti national Issam Ibrahim Nasser al-Houti was not abducted for political reasons, reported the daily An Nahar on Sunday.

He told the daily: “The security agencies and army intelligence are doing their utmost to ensure his release.”

Gunmen have kidnapped a Kuwaiti national in the area of Hawsh al-Ghanam in the eastern Bekaa valley, the National News Agency reported on Saturday.

NNA said Issam al-Houti, 52, was driving his red Kia, which carries the Qatari license plate 20/27880, from Talya when the armed men followed him and opened fire near his feet as soon as he arrived to his rented house in Hawsh al-Ghanam.

An excited friend of a Kuwaiti bridegroom killed him during his wedding with a stray bullet as he charged his gun to fire into the air in celebration, a local daily reported Wednesday.

The man who turned himself in after the incident "fired a bullet by mistake when he was charging his gun," al-Qabas daily said, adding that the bullet hit the groom and killed him.

Kuwait urged all nationals currently present on Lebanese territories to leave the country “immediately.”

“All the Kuwaiti citizens currently in Lebanon should leave amid fears that the security situation might deteriorate in Lebanon due to the swift developments in Syria,” a source in the Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry said.

Kuwait will not attend a conference that Iran is to host on Thursday on finding ways to end the conflict in Syria, a senior official said in a newspaper report.

"We have informed Iran officially that we are not attending," foreign ministry undersecretary Khaled al-Jarallah was quoted as saying in the privately owned al-Seyassah newspaper.

Kuwaiti lawmakers on Wednesday warned the government of the Gulf state against taking part in a meeting in Iran over the Syrian crisis, accusing Tehran of aiding the Damascus regime.

"Kuwait's participation in Tehran meeting is rejected because Iran hands are stained with the blood of the Syrian people," opposition Islamist MP Walid al-Tabatabai said in a statement.

Kuwait's parliament failed to meet on Tuesday for the second week in a row as a majority of lawmakers boycotted the session amid an ongoing political crisis in the Gulf state.

Speaker Jassem al-Kharafi indefinitely adjourned parliament -- which was dissolved in December but reinstated by a court ruling in June -- after only four of the 50-member house and several ministers turned up.

Kuwait parliament failed Tuesday to hold its first session after it was reinstated by a court ruling as a majority of MPs boycotted the meeting amid a lingering political crisis.

Speaker Jassem al-Khorafi adjourned the session for next week after only six MPs of the 50-member house and several cabinet ministers turned up for the meeting boycotted by both pro-government and opposition lawmakers.

A Gulf rights group and a Kuwaiti MP on Sunday criticized the arrest of a member of the Gulf state's ruling family for expressing "political views" deemed offensive.

"Freedom for Sheikh Meshaal al-Malek al-Sabah who was arrested by the state security police," the Gulf Forum for Civil Societies, an organization of liberal activists, said on its Twitter account.

The Pentagon said Wednesday it planned to sell 60 Patriot missiles to Kuwait in a deal worth an estimated $4.2 billion, as the emirate tries to bolster its defenses against the threat from Iran.

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), which is in charge of U.S. weapon sales to foreign countries, notified the U.S. Congress of the intended sale on July 20, the agency said in a statement on its website.