Kuwait charges two soldiers in anti-US plot

Kuwait has said two of its soldiers would stand trial in a military court on charges of plotting attacks against US forces in…

Kuwait has said two of its soldiers would stand trial in a military court on charges of plotting attacks against US forces in the pro-Western Gulf Arab state.

Army Chief of Staff Yousef Abdelrazzak al-Mulla told state news agency KUNA that the two soldiers had been charged while an unspecified number of other detained military personnel were released after it was proved they had no links in a plot to attack "coalition forces".

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