Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, a dual US-Kuwaiti journalist and former correspondent for PBS and Al Jazeera English, was arrested on 3 March in Kuwait after publishing footage of a US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle that crashed near al-Jahra (a city west of Kuwait City) during a friendly fire incident on 2 March, in which Kuwaiti air defences downed three American aircraft. Campaigners fear he will be charged under sweeping new security laws that define terrorism broadly enough to criminalise reporting on military incidents, and possibly tried before a newly established security court. The Committee to Protect Journalists has warned that his detention is part of an escalating pattern of press censorship across Gulf states, where governments are invoking national security to suppress coverage of the ongoing US-Iran conflict and damage to regional infrastructure.