RIYADH/DUBAI: Saudi Arabia announced last week it was suspending oil shipments through the Red Sea’s Bab al-Mandab strait after Yemen’s...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has reassured Arab allies it will not endorse any Middle East peace plan that fails to address Jerusalem’s status or...
WASHINGTON/RIYADH: The leader of Saudi Arabia promised U.S. President Donald Trump that he can raise oil production if needed and the country has 2 million...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia Saturday named a prominent businessman as labor minister in a move welcomed by the private sector, as the kingdom seeks to diversify the...
RIYADH: A missile attack this week on Riyadh has raised the risk of an escalation in the Yemen war in a region riven with interwoven conflicts, but a direct...
RIYADH/DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: Three months after Saudi Arabia detained scores of people in a crackdown on corruption, its rulers are trying to reassure...
RIYADH: Cheering supporters greeted Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal when he arrived at his skyscraper offices in Riyadh after his release...
AL-RUMAHIYA, Saudi Arabia: The dromedaries paraded down a dusty racetrack as judges rated the size of their lips, cheeks, heads and knees. Crowds of men...
RIYADH/DUBAI: Saudi Arabia is taking managerial control of Saudi Binladin Group and discussing a possible transfer of some of the giant construction group’s...
MOSUL, Iraq: Faisal Jeber arrested and interrogated suspected Daesh (ISIS) militants during the battle for Mosul. Now he is taking up a new fight that could...
MOSUL, Iraq: Shop owner Adnan dragged himself from the rubble two days in a row after the houses he was sheltering in were bombed, one after the other, in the...
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s new interior minister, until now a little-known 33-year-old law graduate, replaces his veteran uncle as security chief at a time when...
DUBAI: Two years after launching headfirst into a conflict in Yemen that has no end in sight, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have astonished the...
DUBAI: One of the first signs of the crisis in which three Gulf states and Egypt have cut ties with Qatar came in a phone call from an anxious government...
MOSUL: U.S.-backed Iraqi army units Wednesday took control of the last major road out of western Mosul that had been in Daesh’s (ISIS) hands, trapping...
MOSUL, Iraq: “My dear family, please forgive me,” reads the handwritten letter discarded in the dusty halls of a Daesh (ISIS) training compound in eastern...
MOSUL, Iraq: As Iraqi government forces advanced toward his eastern Mosul neighborhood in November, a group of Daesh militants stormed Abu Rami’s home, put a...
IRBIL, Iraq: Seven-year-old Anas lies in a hospital bed in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, his little body wrapped in bandages following four surgeries to...
DUHOK, Iraq: The newest enterprise bearing Donald Trump’s name is not a five-star hotel or an exclusive golf club. It is a restaurant in northern Iraq serving...
BAGHDAD: In early June, two Iranian-backed Shiite militias under the nominal control of the Iraqi government stormed into an Iraqi military air base north of...
DEBAGA, Iraq: Ali and Sara, born in Daesh’s (ISIS’) self-styled caliphate in northern Iraq, escaped to a camp for displaced people only to confront a new...
MOSUL, Iraq: The only shop to open so far after the army fought its way into the Intisar district of eastern Mosul is Ali Bashar’s barbershop. Inside, men...
ZUMAR, Iraq: From the house Abu Suhail occupies, you can see Iraq’s ethnic fault lines widening. Like many houses in this northern Iraqi town, the drab...
BAGHDAD: Last week’s dismissal of Iraqi Finance Minister Hoshyar Zebari, the latest convulsion in Baghdad’s increasingly unstable politics, risks delaying...
BAGHDAD: When Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi pledged in December that Iraq would retake Daesh’s (ISIS) de facto capital Mosul by the end of 2016, the target...