It has also lent its name to the maritime Khawr Abd Allah Protocols, Kor Abd Allah or KAA Interoperability Protocols, first developed by the British Royal Navy between March and June 2008 during the British command of Combined Task Force 158 in close co-operation with Kuwaiti and Iraqi senior naval personnel and government advisers.
The legally-nonbinding KAA Interoperability Protocols were developed and mediated between the heads of the Kuwaiti and Iraqi navies by Major David Hammond Royal Marines, the British naval barrister and legal advisor to CTF 158 who is now the CEO[2] of the UK charity Human Rights at Sea[3] and separately independently practices law as an English barrister.
The Protocols included the production of the KAA Interoperability Admiralty Chart by Major Hammond and was subsequently distributed to both countries after theybhad been produced by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office.
[6] More recently, the former Head of the Kuwaiti Navy, Major-General Ahmad Yousef Al-Mulla, was invited to speak at the United Kingdom's Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS) in London on February 1, 2012 on the topic of the Khor Abdallah waterway as part of a lecture covering Kuwaiti-Iraqi maritime boundary interactions and future relations.
In September 2019, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Rai allegedly claimed that Iraq submitted a letter of complaint to the UN Secretary General and UN Security Council that accused Kuwait of geographical changes to its maritime border at the Khor Abdullah waterway.