ABU DHABI: Military transport planes from the United Arab Emirates landed on the sleepy Yemeni island of Socotra last week, unloading tanks and troops as part...
DUBAI: As traditional centers of modern Arab art in Damascus and Baghdad have imploded amid disastrous wars, the sheeny city-state of Dubai in the United Arab...
DUBAI: A rise in tension between Qatar and the United Arab Emirates in a row over military flights threatens U.S. strategic interests in the Gulf and could...
DUBAI: World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. signed its first female performer from the Arab world Sunday, smashing cultural taboos as the U.S.-based pageant...
DUBAI: Yemen’s ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh appears to have patched up a violent rift with his allies in the armed Houthi movement, but the drama has...
LONDON/DUBAI: Daesh (ISIS) is seeking to radicalize disaffected ethnic minorities in majority-Shiite Iran to encourage attacks intended to avenge Tehran’s...
DUBAI: A Saudi-owned television channel has launched a drama series portraying the brutality of life under Daesh (ISIS) to counter sleek propaganda from the...
DUBAI/CAIRO: Spilling into the hallways of crowded Yemeni hospitals, children writhe in pain from cholera. Displaced villagers roam baking hot plains and...
MANAMA/DUBAI: At a wake in Iran’s holy city of Qom in February, a small group of Bahraini emigres and preachers mourned a young militant killed in a gunbattle...
DUBAI: Yemen is emerging as a test ground for U.S. President Donald Trump’s forceful approach to Al-Qaeda and Iran, but his first actions there risk drawing...
DUBAI: Already suffering grievously under nearly two years of civil war, many thousands of Yemeni state workers now face destitution as their salaries have...
DUBAI: A U.N. peace plan for Yemen seeks to deprive the country’s armed Houthi movement of its missile arsenal, which Yemeni security sources say includes...
DUBAI: Yemen has endured thousands of airstrikes and the deaths of more than 10,000 people in a 19-month-old war that has also unleashed hunger on the...
AL AIN, United Arab Emirates: An urban park in Denmark to promote tolerance between immigrants and local residents and a mosque in a flood-prone area of...
DUBAI: In Yemen’s war of attrition, the Saudi-backed exiled government has now decided that the central bank is an easier target than the capital, shielded...
DUBAI: The whitewashed dome of a Sufi shrine in the Yemeni city of Taiz gleamed for centuries until a band of hard-line Sunni Islamist gunmen blew it up last...
DUBAI: As civil war engulfs Yemen, the central bank is so committed to staying neutral that it pays salaries of soldiers on both sides. The bank distributes...
DUBAI/LONDON/CAIRO: Al-Qaeda may have been pushed out of the enclave it carved out in Yemen as the country descended into civil war, but the militants are...
CAIRO/DUBAI: Daesh (ISIS) efforts to exploit chaos may have brought Arab-allied forces and Iran-backed Houthis tentatively closer at peace talks in Yemen’s...
DUBAI: A South African falconer in Dubai’s desert is shaking up the ancient sport of falconry, marrying one of Arabia’s most cherished customs with the...
DUBAI: Elderly Hamama Yousif was rushed to the main hospital in one of Yemen’s largest cities after an artillery round lashed her chest with shrapnel,...
DUBAI: Not even hospitals are spared the shells that every day pound the city of Taiz, where Yemenis who took to the streets for democracy during the “Arab...
MARIB, Yemen: As Gulf Arab troops push through Yemen’s central desert into the mountains that lead to the capital held by the Houthis, their Iran-allied foe,...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM/DUBAI: He is in the view of some Palestinians, and perhaps his own mind, the man who would be king. From his roots in a Gaza refugee camp,...
DUBAI: When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, fellow Gulf states raced to shelter thousands of displaced Kuwaitis. Fast forward 25 years, and the homeless from...