In the earlier days of the paper, the 1970s specifically, the establishment was keen on publishing news about companies, judiciary, establishments, development of infrastructure, and health and education. This wasn't unusual for public release in the nation as its government was established as a semi-constitutional monarchy during the country's national independence declaration.
Kuwait Times is a branch from The Times, the British national daily read founded by John Walter in 1785. Now, in 2025, Kuwait Times has adapted to the modern-day digital newspaper, and it offers a multitude of news coverage: Kuwait, World, Opinion, Business, Sports, and Lifestyle. Until recently, Kuwait is known for board level freedom of press, meaning there would be no reason that news outlets could not express national thoughts and stories for both domestic and foreign people to acknowledge.
The website has recently released a variety of news coverage about the genocide and war crimes happening in Gaza, which exclaims their agenda to inform their country about world realities. Here are some of the more recently covered hard stories:
However, from secondary resources like Reporters Without Borders, the World Press Freedom Index chart shows Kuwait to be 128/180 out of countries with absolute to no freedom of press, ranking as one of the mid-lower countries with freedom of press.
"Despite its reputation as the least repressive country in the gulf, the emirate exercises a great deal of control over news and information, which increased at the end of the reign of Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah and under the reign of his successor, Sheikh Mishal al-Ahmad al-Sabah, in 2023."
This means that even though Kuwait Times offers news coverage over opinionated topics and international news, their news releases are mediumly tight-lipped according to the Kuwait government. However, to internationals, it might seem like there isn't lack of freedom of discussion through the website and published news reports, not to mention it allows you reads from Editor's Desk or Conspiracy Theory from their opinion news. Compared to American national news websites like CNN, AP News, and New York Times, it seems to offer similar quality news stories.
With almost 300k followers on the Kuwait Times Instagram page, the publishing team covers the same types of news, targeted towards the attention of the people of social media. Most recent posts cover topics such as President Trump's opinions, updates on Gaza, Venezuela and Noble Peace Prize awards, Algeria and the 2026 World Cup, etc. This demonstrates their ability to consistently post as an online newspaper on all platforms but with the ability to adapt to the culture of social media, making it an acceptable informative news outlet in this today's time.
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