Kuwait forms cabinet with new oil minister, finance minister re-appointed

(Reuters) – Kuwait appointed a new cabinet on Wednesday, naming Hussein Ismail as oil minister to replace Mohammed Al-Fares and reappointing finance minister Abdul Wahab al-Rasheed.

The Gulf Arab state also named a new defence minister, Sheikh Abdullah Ali al-Salem al-Sabah, to the cabinet announced in a decree carried on state media channels.

The outgoing government had resigned following parliamentary elections last month in the Gulf OPEC oil producer.

(Reporting by Lilian Wagdy and Alaa Swilam in Cairo; Writing by Ghaida Ghantous)