Kuwaiti authorities have detained Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, a 41-year-old US-Kuwaiti journalist who had been visiting family in Kuwait, with the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reporting he has not been seen or posted online since March 2. He faces charges of spreading false information, harming national security, and misusing his mobile phone — charges that followed his sharing of publicly available footage related to the ongoing US-Israel war on Iran, including video of a US fighter jet crash near a Kuwaiti air base. The arrest is part of a broader regional clampdown: Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE have collectively reported hundreds of arrests over the filming and online sharing of conflict-related material, while the CPJ and UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese have called for Shihab-Eldin's immediate release.