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...
DUBAI: Gulf Arab states are quietly applauding the arrival in the White House of a hawkish leader opposed to their adversary Iran, even if they suspect Donald...
RIYADH: “Where are you, Oh Arabs, Oh Muslims, while we are being slaughtered?” An old man’s cry, in a video posted online from Aleppo’s ruins, poses an...
DOHA: Qatar will continue to arm Syrian rebels even if Donald Trump ends U.S. backing for the multinational effort, Doha’s foreign minister said in an...
DUBAI: The future leader of the Middle East’s top foreign ally is, in the words of a Saudi prince, an anti-Muslim “disgrace,” openly disdainful of Arab...
An air strike on a funeral gathering, widely blamed on Saudi-led warplanes, poses more trouble for a Western-backed Arab campaign against Yemen's Houthis that...
ABU DHABI/WASHINGTON: The United Arab Emirates, one of Washington’s closest allies in the Middle East, is deploying its military against Al-Qaeda in Yemen,...
DOHA: OPEC and non-OPEC producers should cut production to balance the global oil market before a supply glut becomes unmanageable “like a cancer,” Qatar’s...
DUBAI: As Iran’s government promises a new age of prosperity after sanctions, many Iranians are hoping for the best. But the security establishment,...
DUBAI: The Saudi led-coalition fighting to reinstate Yemen's exiled government aims first to set it up in the mostly recaptured port city of Aden and then...
KUWAIT/DUBAI: When a Saudi Arabian man flew to Kuwait in the early hours of Friday to carry out the country’s worst militant attack, a bomb vest,...
DUBAI: Bahrain police said Thursday they had seized explosives and bomb making materials planned for use in attacks in Bahrain and neighboring Gulf Arab ally...
DUBAI/RIYADH: The Saudi king’s absence from a regional summit to be hosted by President Barack Obama shows how Gulf states, displeased by what they see...
DUBAI: Iraq has requested financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and an agreement may be reached within weeks on a loan of about $800...
DUBAI: Egypt's economic policy reforms are starting to pay off and growth is strengthening although the country still faces a difficult situation, a senior...
TEHRAN: Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tuesday that Iran would not sink "to its knees" over its disputed nuclear program, his first...
DUBAI/DOHA: Gulf Arab states have shelved a bitter row, hoping to repair an alliance that has been sorely tested by chaos in the Middle East and the prospect...
RIYADH: Leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) will hold a summit in Saudi Arabia late on Sunday, Bahrain's state media reported, at a time when the...
DUBAI: The United Nations said a Sierra Leonean water engineer working in Yemen on a sanitation project had been freed more than a year after being kidnapped...
DUBAI: The Islamic State released a video purporting to show the beheading of American hostage Steven Sotloff, a monitoring service said on Tuesday, raised...
BAGHDAD/DUBAI: The militants dismantling Iraq’s borders and threatening regional war are far from united – theirs is a marriage of convenience...
DOHA/DUBAI: Exiled leaders of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood are struggling to regroup, targeted by hostile Arab powers, cut off from senior colleagues imprisoned...
WASHINGTON/RIYADH: Addressing the United Nations General Assembly in September, President Barack Obama declared the pursuit of Israeli-Palestinian peace one...
DUBAI: Iran hopes sufficient progress will be made at talks with major powers this week to enable negotiators to start drafting an accord settling a dispute...