DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates has lobbied several European countries to ease restrictions on weapons exports following a series of strikes in the Gulf this...
DUBAI/PARIS: The U.S. is struggling to win its allies’ support for an initiative to heighten surveillance of vital Middle East oil shipping lanes...
KUWAIT: A “Silk City” rising from Kuwait’s northern sandy plains will help diversify the Gulf Arab state’s economy away from oil, draw foreign investment and...
KUWAIT: A "Silk City" rising from Kuwait's northern sandy plains will help diversify the Gulf Arab state's economy away from oil, draw...
DUBAI/RIYADH: Big investors in Saudi Arabia are pushing ahead with deals and pouring money back into its stock market as the kingdom tries to move on from the...
RIYADH/DUBAI: U.S. firms attracted by Saudi Arabia’s plans to build nuclear reactors are pushing Washington to restart talks with Riyadh on an agreement to...
DOHA/DUBAI: The United States will post officials at the Qatari state prosecutor’s office as part of a Qatari-U.S. agreement signed this month to fight the...
DUBAI: A robotic policeman which can help identify wanted criminals and collect evidence has joined Dubai’s police force and will patrol busy areas in the...
DUBAI/DOHA: Just 10 days after President Donald Trump called on Muslim countries to stand united against Iran, a public feud between Qatar and some of its...
DUBAI/LONDON: Gulf Arab investors, some of the biggest buyers of British real estate, are holding back from new deals because they fear a property price slump...
KUWAIT: Kuwaiti security service officers raided farmhouses near the Iraqi border late last summer, slicing through carpets and smashing open concrete floors....
DUBAI/RIYADH: The participation of tens of thousands of young Saudis in a social media debate over plans to reform the kingdom’s oil-reliant economy last...
BEIRUT: A new international bond and grant scheme to help states dealing with the fallout of war and instability in the Middle East and North Africa should be...
BEIRUT: It is essential that Lebanon’s Parliament meets soon to pass laws for development loans, debt issuance and banks, the central bank governor said...
BEIRUT: Four decades ago, Lebanon used to export power to its larger neighbor Syria. Now it barely generates enough electricity to keep street lamps on at...
BEIRUT: Syria's foreign minister said Friday it was too early to hold another United Nations-backed peace conference on Syria, indicating the dim...
AMMAN: ISIS fighters stormed the Syrian town of Tal Abyad on the Turkish border Tuesday and captured a neighborhood from the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, but...
BEIRUT: Kurdish fighters said they fully secured the Syrian border town of Kobani Saturday and killed more than 60 ISIS militants, two days after the hardline...
BEIRUT: ISIS has committed its second-biggest civilian massacre in Syria with an attack on the town of Kobani and a nearby village, killing at least 146...
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BEIRUT: ISIS fighters have launched simultaneous attacks against Syrian government and Kurdish militia forces, moving back onto the offensive after losing...
BEIRUT: Global aid agency Oxfam wants to double to 3 million the number of people it can reach inside Syria with water and hygiene projects, the head of...
DAMASCUS: The Syrian government says it has come through worse phases in the 4-year-old conflict than the latest advances by insurgents across the country and...
BEIRUT: Steady advances by insurgents on key fronts in Syria mean President Bashar Assad is under more military pressure than at any point in the 4-year-old...
BEIRUT: ISIS militants stormed the Syrian city of Palmyra Wednesday, seizing it from government forces in fierce fighting as civilians fled and Syria's...