DUBAI: The collapse of U.N. efforts to organize peace talks between the Yemeni government and rebels is likely to lead to an escalation in the country’s war,...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s ambitious reform drive takes another step forward this week, with the launch of a new public TV channel that seeks to lure young...
ABU DHABI: At first glance, the long hallway seems abandoned. But behind glass walls, in soundproof offices, engineers and physicists are putting the final...
DUBAI: They are mothers, daughters, wives – and suicide bombers. An Arab television drama timed for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan tells the untold stories...
DUBAI: The streets of Dubai may be known for architectural excess, like Burj Khalifa and Dubai Mall, the Middle East’s largest shopping center. But a...
TRIPOLI: After a swift initial thrust into Daesh’s (ISIS’) bastion in Libya, six months on, unity government forces still face dogged resistance from militant...
MISRATA, Libya: Yellow-and-blue fighter jets sit neatly lined up on the tarmac at the air force academy in Libya’s Misrata, no longer awaiting students...
TRIPOLI: Libya has shipped the last of its chemical weapons stocks out of the country, officials said Tuesday, under a U.N.-backed plan to ensure the arsenal...
MISRATA, Libya: In the fight against Daesh (ISIS) in Libya, few communities have paid as heavy a price as Misrata. The coastal city is home to powerful...
TRIPOLI: Rival Libyan forces are preparing separate offensives against Daesh (ISIS) as the militants gain new territory, in another sign of deep divisions in...
TRIPOLI: Mats rolled tightly under their arms, a group of women walk to a secluded Tripoli beach for a seaside yoga session to escape tensions in...
TRIPOLI: In seeking to establish its authority in the chaos of Libya, the U.N.-backed new unity government has two major trump cards – control of state funds...
TRIPOLI: Sitting outdoors at a quiet Tripoli cafe, Libyans wonder how a third government could possibly take up residence in a capital controlled by armed...
TRIPOLI: Public beheadings and roving militant gangs are terrifying residents in the Daesh’s (ISIS) Libyan stronghold of Sirte, in an ominous sign of the...
Tripoli: UN envoy Martin Kobler said on Sunday his team is in contact with security officials in Tripoli to ensure that Libya's new unity government can...
TRIPOLI: Four years after Moammar Gadhafi was killed in an uprising, the dictator’s legacy continues to haunt oil-rich Libya as it struggles to find its...
ZUWARA, Libya: Pakistani teenager Shefaz Hamza spent nine hours at sea clinging to the wreckage of a migrant boat that sank off Libya. By the time the coast...
TRIPOLI: The United Nations and European states on Sunday welcomed a U.N. peace deal initialed by some Libyan factions but not by the opposition as a step...
TRIPOLI: The cheers of football fans have replaced the echoes of gunfire in Tripoli this Ramadan in a charity-organized tournament aimed at giving Libyans a...
TRIPOLI: Sitting in his workshop among the winding streets of Tripoli’s Old City, Abdulwahab al-Saudi bangs away at a piece of copper. After nearly two hours,...
BEIRUT: Danny Jano, an Assyrian Christian, fled with his family in their pajamas when they heard that ISIS jihadis were approaching their home in northeast...
BEIRUT: ISIS have abducted 220 Assyrian Christians in northeastern Syria in recent days, an activist group said Thursday, as international concern grows for...
BEIRUT: A 21-year-old Syrian was declared the winner of this year’s “Arab Idol” at the grand finale of the gruelling four-month singing...
BEIRUT: The army has shrunk by nearly half since Syria’s conflict erupted in 2011 but experts say the remaining military force is now both more flexible...
MURSITPINAR, Turkey: Kurdish fighters in the battleground Syrian town of Kobani weathered an onslaught by ISIS militants Tuesday as they waited for promised...