Tribes of Kuwait

Anizah or Anazah (, Najdi pronunciation: ) is an Arabian tribe in the Arabian Peninsula, Upper Mesopotamia, and the Levant.

The tribe of Shammar () is a tribal Arab Qahtanite confederation, descended from the Tayy, which migrated into the northern Arabian Peninsula from Yemen in the second century. It is the largest branch of the Tayy, and one of the largest and most influential Arab tribes. The historical and traditional seat of the tribe's leadership is in the city of Ḥaʼil; where most of the people of the tribe of Shammar are found, in what was the Emirate of Jabal Shammar in what is now Saudi Arabia. In its "golden age", around the 1850s, the Shammar ruled much of central and northern Arabia from Riyadh to the

Mutayr () is an Arab Bedouin Sunni Muslim tribe with origins in the northern Hejaz near Medina, A large Arab tribe in the middle of the Arabian Peninsula, whose homes extend from the Hijaz to Najd and then to southern Iraq and Kuwait. The tribe also had a historical presence in the desert regions of southern Iraq, being a notable Sunni Arab tribe in the Shia-majority south although some branches migrated north to West Iraq. The settlement of Tall Mutayr in Nineveh is named after the tribe.

bedouin tribe of northeastern Arabia

Al-Muntafiq () was a large Arab tribal confederation of southern Iraq and Kuwait. The confederation's tribes predominantly settled in Iraq's southern provinces and northern Kuwait.

Arab tribal confederation

The Otaibah (, also spelled Otaiba, Utaybah) is one of the biggest Arabian tribes originating in the Arabian Peninsula. Their distribution spans throughout Saudi Arabia, especially in Najd and Hejaz. and the Middle East. The Otaibah trace back to the Mudar family and belong to the Qays ʿAylān confederacy through its previous name, Hawazin.