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This image released by Disney shows Dan Stevens as The Beast, left, and Emma Watson as Belle in a live-action adaptation of the animated classic &quot;Beauty and the Beast.&quot; Disney’s film Beauty and the Beast has been pulled from cinemas in Kuwait after the country’s censors raised concerns over the film’s content. Duaij Al-Khalifa Al-Sabah, a board member at the National Cinema Company that operates 11 of Kuwait’s 13 movie theaters, told The Associated Press on Monday, March 20, 2017 a newly edited version of the movie may be back in theaters later this week. (Disney via AP)

Beauty and the Beast will not return to cinemas in Kuwait

Associated Press

This image released by Disney shows Dan Stevens as The Beast, left, and Emma Watson as Belle in a live-action adaptation of the animated classic &quot;Beauty and the Beast.&quot; Disney’s film Beauty and the Beast has been pulled from cinemas in Kuwait after the country’s censors raised concerns over the film’s content. Duaij Al-Khalifa Al-Sabah, a board member at the National Cinema Company that operates 11 of Kuwait’s 13 movie theaters, told The Associated Press on Monday, March 20, 2017 a newly edited version of the movie may be back in theaters later this week. (Disney via AP)

Kuwait censors pull Disney’s Beauty and the Beast for edits

By HUSSAIN AL-QATARI - Associated Press

This Jan. 25, 2017 photo taken with a super wide-angle lens, shows the new 304 million dinar ($997 million) Jaber Hospital, about a 20-minute drive from downtown Kuwait City, Kuwait. In the coming months Kuwait’s first new government hospital in more than three decades will open its doors -- but to Kuwaiti citizens only. It’s the latest in a series of steps that some see as discrimination against the large numbers of non-native residents who build the high-rises, sweep the roads and clean toilets in the oil-rich emirate. Even elsewhere in the Persian Gulf -- a coveted destination for migrant workers -- there are growing voices who want the foreigners out. (AP Photo/Jaber Abdulkhaleg)

In Kuwait, ‘too many foreigners’ becomes a frequent refrain

By HUSSAIN AL-QATARI - Associated Press

FILE - This Monday, Sept. 12, 2016, file photo, shows the exterior of the Trump International Hotel in downtown Washington. Donald Trump’s unusual status as incoming president and owner of a Washington hotel is drawing renewed attention as one of the Middle East’s richest kingdoms plans to host its National Day celebration at the venue. Salem Al-Sabah, Kuwait’s ambassador to the U.S., says the party is scheduled for Feb. 25 at the “new hotel in town.” (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Kuwait moves annual Washington party to Trump’s hotel

By BRADLEY KLAPPER - Associated Press

In this Saturday Oct. 8, 2016 photo released by Kuwait Ministry of Interiors, a damaged garbage truck after it rammed into another truck carrying five U.S. soldiers in Kuwait. An Egyptian driving a garbage truck loaded with explosives and Islamic State papers rammed into a truck carrying five U.S. soldiers in Kuwait on Saturday, injuring only himself in the attack, authorities said. (Kuwait Ministry of Interiors via AP)

Kuwait arrests Egyptian after failed attack on US soldiers

By HUSSAIN AL-QATARI and JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2006 file photo, reviewed by a U.S. Dept of Defense official, a shackled detainee is transported by a female guard, front, and male guard, behind, away from his annual Administrative Review Board hearing with U.S. officials, at Camp Delta detention center, Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. A U.S. Army officer told a court on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015 that she started to use women to transport prisoners in 2014 due to a shortage of guards. A judge has issued a temporary ban the military is seeking to lift. Muslim prisoners say contact with unrelated females violates their religion. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Pentagon transfers bin Laden adviser from Gitmo to Kuwait

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Ashton Carter vows Islamic State defeat after meeting near Iraq with military, diplomatic leaders

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, left, speaks with a soldier at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015. Carter is making his first trip to visit troops and commanders in Afghanistan since his swearing-in this week. (AP Photo/Jonathan Ernst, Pool)

Ashton Carter, new Pentagon chief, convenes unusual counter-IS meeting

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

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Fort Carson combat troops head to Kuwait; 4K will become largest U.S. ground force in region

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Lebanon currently hosts over 1.1 million refugees of the Syrian civil war, which equates to about a quarter of all people living within the country. Cutbacks in aid by the U.N., partly due to donor nations not coming through with promised funds, threatens to starve many such refugees. (associated press)

Syria refugees go hungry as wealthy nations fail to deliver millions in promised aid

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

President Clinton speaks after the signing of the Balkan peace treaty at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Dec. 14, 1995. Clinton called it the day that turned the shattered country "from the horror of war to the promise of peace.'' (AP Photo/Michel Gangne/pool)

BRUCE FEIN: Neocons argue U.S. fights too few wars, but they are wrong

By Bruce Fein

In this file photo released Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014, by the official Saudi Press Agency, Saudi pilots sits in the cockpit of a fighter jet as part of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on Islamic State militants and other targets in Syria. (AP Photo/Saudi Press Agency, File)

Egypt, Gulf Arab allies eye anti-militant alliance

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

Members of the Rolla Patriot Guard Riders travel along the procession route on 10th Street in Rolla, Mo., after the funeral service of Sgt. Timothy Owens, 37, of Effingham, Ill., Saturday, April 12, 2014. Owens was a soldier killed in shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, earlier this month. (AP Photo/Rolla Daily News, Paul Hackbarth)

Fort Hood victim laid to rest in Missouri

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This undated family photo provided by Glen Welton shows U.S. Army Sgt. Tim Owens, left, of Effingham, Ill., with his cousin Glen Welton. Owens was one of three people killed by a shooter at Fort Hood, Texas on Wednesday, April 2, 2014. The shooter, identified as Ivan Lopez, also wounded 16 others before shooting himself, according to authorities. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Owens family)

Soldiers killed at Fort Hood had years of service

By DAVID MERCER - Associated Press

Ohio National Guard soldiers return from Kuwait

Associated Press

NY Guard chief visits troops serving in Kuwait

Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry attends the opening session of the second International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria at Bayan Palace, Kuwait City on Wednesday, Jan 15, 2014. Kuwait pledged $500 million and the United States promised $380 million to alleviate the suffering of Syrians affected by the country's civil war at the start of the fundraising conference that international aid officials hope will generate billions of dollars needed this year.(AP Photo/Gustavo Ferrari)

Kerry plays down spat with Israeli defense chief

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

** FILE ** A Syrian rebel fighter returns from fighting Syrian army forces in Aleppo. (Associated Press)

U.S. allies let funds flow to al Qaeda in Syria

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

The Islamic Brotherhood wants to Islamize society and continues to make excuses for certain terrorist movements, encourages religious segregation and champions a reactionary interpretation of faith over a sense of citizenship. In recent years, several groups associated with the Brotherhood have come under legal scrutiny in the U.S. (Associated Press/File)

Despite loss of influence in Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood branches stay strong

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell is part of a delegation that traveled to Kuwait and Afghanistan this week to visit troops (Photo courtesy of the Department of Defense)

Virginia Gov. McDonnell travels to Kuwait, Afghanistan

By Matthew Cella - The Washington Times