DUBAI: Kuwait appointed a new cabinet on Wednesday, naming new defense and oil ministers, Kuwait News Agency reported. 

Hussein Ismail Mohammad Ismail was appointed oil minister, replacing Mohammed Abdulatif Al-Fares.

Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah kept his foreign minister role and Abdulwahab Al-Rasheed remained as finance minister. 

Sheikh Abdullah Ali Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah was named as defense minister.

Earlier on Wednesday, Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Sabah was reappointed as Kuwait’s prime minister under an Emiri order.

Sheikh Ahmad presented a list of the new cabinet members to Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah who then approved the cabinet. 

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