It used to house a huge plot of subsidized apartment complexes and the Ministry of Information headquarters, thus giving birth to many famous media personalities.
The Sawabir apartments were demolished in 2019 and as a result, the district is mostly empty except for shops, mosques, towers, administrative buildings, and few other amenities along its edges.
When Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion of Kuwait on 2 August 1990, Kuwaiti Resistance cells were formed immediately afterwards.
He established from his home in Ṣubāḥ is-Sālim the Here is Kuwait (Arabic: هنا الكويت, romanized: Huna l-Kuwayt) radio station with his colleagues at the Ministry of Information.
[5] The 22,800-square-metre (245,000 sq ft) government-built complexes, which featured parks, parking, and other amenities had 528 apartments[6] with unique architectural design[citation needed] and used to house mainly people of Al-Ahsa (Hasawi) origin and people of the Al-Azmi tribe (pl.
Kuwait's Minister of Housing Ahmad Al-Fahad announced compensation for owners of the damaged apartments with 3,000KWD each.
In 2012, another fire that resulted in one death and ten injuries (five of whom were firefighters), with firefighters stating the poor administration of the building made their work more difficult[11] This has led to increased scrutiny and criticism over the government's lack of supervision and lax enforcement of regulations by residents.