Middle East

ABU DHABI - The President, His Highness Shaikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has ordered settlement...

Libya: Libya’s ramshackle government lost control of a former stronghold of Muammar Qaddafi on Tuesday after...

DUBAI: The six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) said on Tuesday it had decided to withdraw its...

RIYADH: Big emerging economies such as Saudi Arabia, India and China will not aid the West...

DUBAI: Residents in the UAE were in for a chilly blast of winds sweeping the region...

CAIRO: Radioactive material has been stolen from a nuclear power station on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast that...

RIYADH: Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, director general of the King Faisal Foundation (KFF), announced on Monday night...

At least 25 people died when a five-storey building collapsed in the Lebanese capital Beirut. Rescuers...

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia signed an agreement with China in Riyadh Sunday for cooperation in the development...

RAMADI, IRAQ: Insurgents carried out a wave of attacks before storming a police building in the...

BEIRUT: Many monitors in the Arab League’s troubled mission to Syria are angry over what they...

A US ship has picked up Iranians in trouble at sea, in the second such rescue...

RIYADH: The Council of Ministers on Monday reviewed global oil market developments and reiterated Saudi Arabia’s...

RIYADH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah reaffirmed in his latest directive to the...

CAIRO: The Islamist Muslim Brotherhood looks set for a dominant role in Egypt's first free parliament...