Onlineredaktion - A Kuwaiti criminal court sentenced an American woman working at a US army base in the Gulf emirate for 10 years in prison after she was convicted of dealing in drugs, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

Kuwaiti detectives posing as customers bought the drugs from the unnamed women and immediately arrested her near the military camp.

Police also arrested a Bangladeshi man who confessed to supplying the narcotics to the woman.

Alanba Arabic language daily said both defendants work at the US army base in Doha area in Kuwait but it did not specify their jobs.